Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
~Carl Sagan

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
~Rene Descartes

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet

EndQuote:
Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?
~Henry Ward Beecher

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 05/30:  text, howl

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Posted from the Grove

Tongue-Tied:  How To Keep The Conversation Flowing
https://curiosity.com/topics/keep-conversations-flowing-with-the-ford-method-curiosity/?utm_campaign

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~The Book of Life:  I Will Wait   (1:56)
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~Enya:  Book of Days   (2:55)

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten:  insipid, feint

~BarTalk:
Sir’s Work

Fealty unfeigned
A weasely way with the truth
Insipid diplomat’s feint
Doused the fires of war forsooth

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staged in reverse

feint parry thrust
duel to the death
until one heart stops
loving

words
dueling ideals
dreams put away
boxed in the basement

trade in romance for
the solid comforts of love
or the insipid trade
the cave-in to survive

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North Central & South

Rich Uncle Pennybags’ invested in family
Founder and funder of Mr Monopoly
Promising black ink drowning in red
Nothing believable whatever got said
Venomous strikes whose vision is faulty
Insipid replies in defense of his folly
Pouting pretensions sully the stage
Overgrown bully boy not acting his age
Feint south rattle fences make noise in decoy
Using powers of fear with quislings deployed
Divy up America North Central and South
Empire North what it’s all about

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5-7-5 x 2

feign unfaked interest
feint for the heart check the door
insipid courtship
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insipid attempt
intrepid to the faint-heart
feint bold and be brave

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Quoted In The Grove:
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
~A A Hodge

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
~Mark Twain

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~Garry Kasparov

EndQuote:
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~Anais Nin

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 08/22:   feint, insipid

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Posted from the Grove

~Happy Flyfish:  Goutte d’Or   (10:55)
CGI Animated Short

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@Writers Platform

Glass Table:

Confessions of a Poetaster

Clever with words, good with playful ideas, possessed with a drive to try and try again, but poetry wants something more … more patience, perhaps. And love. Poetry needs love, and it has to be shown. In the form of another visit, repeated final edits, the eager return to make things better, to remove distractions, to bring color, to make amends: love has to be shown. It does not need coaxing. A poem is never done.

A poem can be anything that one jots down, but poetry is a search for the right word – the visual, the vivid, the visceral word. There is rare poetry, there are poems, then there are these exercises, still trying. Good luck dredging this puddle for gold.

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Prewritten:  starch, band

~BarTalk:
Ruminations

Remembering when
Banned in Boston
Meant a masterpiece
When cigar bands
Labeled Cuban brands
Meant the sweetest smoke
Smuggled in as contraband

Cozy in comfort and canon blest
Forever foe of the very best
Arch-fiend to Art and champion Sport
Almost-right earned a sharp retort
‘Tween fart and fort in my last report

Provoked to invoke
At last he spoke
Pay attention
Stand up straight
Strive with gusto
Earn your perks
Leaven wonder with starch
In all your works
Misheard words are what I hate
Went heavy with starch
On my laundered shorts

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Out Of Style

Old men in starched shirts loved the midnight waltz
Old ladies in silk threads loved their old time schmaltz
But times change and the change don’t halt
Now it’s kids and cults and adults who assault

World grows restive up in arms o’er the news
Now boys in the jazz band play only blues
Destruction is primal with everything to lose
Fear screams louder than survival’s Muse

Guns are the reason that everyone faults
Ignoring the Terrorist lighting the fuse

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inventory

three ring-tailed cooties on velvet green
one black-banded red bandersnatch
pigments of the imagination
bandits of time
vie with reality’s bandicoot
put some rainbow starch in life

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Quoted In The Grove:
you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you
~Nayyirah Waheed

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
~Mark Twain

When you start seeing your worth, you’ll find it harder to stay around people who don’t.
~Unknown

EndQuote:
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
~Tyra Banks

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 08/15:   band, starch

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Posted from the Grove

~Curiosity:  New Study Suggests You Really Do Have a Type
https://curiosity.com/topics/a-new-study-suggests-you-really-do-have-a-type-curiosity?utm_campaign

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@Writers Platform

Glass Table:

~Greg Thweatt:  Distraction

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Cell phones, a drink, games, maybe music, bright lights, dim corners, flickering screens, a napkin, melting ice cubes … so many distractions, how can we know what is real versus that which is numbing or fantasy?

“Tottering between …”

This painting attempts to capture the ways we totter between distractions and the interactions with our world. Typically we see distractions as negative, a diversion or interference. I believe that distractions can also help when in pain or unsettled, if used with intention versus without thought.

“Stop!”

The struggle is to know when we are being intentional instead of becoming lost in
avoidance. Maybe it as easy as stopping,
looking up, listening (even if there is no sound) and being gentle with ourselves.

“Music Pairings”

~Hot Sardines:  When I Get Low I Get High   (4:09)

~Zaz:  Qué Vendrá   (3:03)

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Prewritten:   feud, tiptoe

~BarTalk:
She Me They We

She
Dances en pointe feline grace on tiptoe
Me
Feudin’ cousin of the ribbity rabbity tap dance
They
Choose music either nightingale or raucous crow
We
Refuse the ruse of witty talk versus flash romance
Grabs a number and takes our chance

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the climb to fly

snowshoe up mountain top
climb to the tip
toes to the edge
bungee jump

le feu d’amour
the fire of love
is like that

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5-7-5 x 6

tiptoe to the edge
was it cut with fentanyl
parents feud whose fault
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cruel crawl thru pig mud
or tiptoe home together
defuse this old feud
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piled high thunderheads
age old feud ‘tween weather fronts
tiptoe thru the rain
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tap dance on tiptoe
magnetized emotions feud
dare to call it love
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feuds felt in the gut
tiptoe thru relationships
reenlist, again
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civil war of self
feuding man in the mirror
tiptoes between them

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