Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:

Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.
~Fran Mauriac

The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives.
~Florence Luscomb

Travel is necessary to scrub and abrade your mind against the certainties of others.
~Michel de Montaigne

EndQuote:
When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left.
~Langston Hughes

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Harvested from:  Wordsmith.org   (A.Word.A.Day)
Curated by:  Wordgrove

 

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Prewritten Exercise Theme:   the city

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Posted from the Grove

How To Write a Meaningful Holiday Card
https://www.dictionary.com/e/how-do-i-write-a-holiday-card/

 

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~U2’s:  Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For   PMJ Feat: Rogelio Douglas, Jr   (3:36)

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~Kid President:  Pep Talk   (3:27)

 

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RAW
©2019 Chris Bule

 

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten Prompt:  the race

~BarTalk:
In Lieu of Camera

Before life makes them mothers
A girls choir dances with their hands
Makes magic from hours of practice
Before adults make adult music for adult feet

A bride radiant with hope
In maiden white next unpicked flowers
Her portrait before the ceremony
Knows she is beautiful

Families against the gusting breeze
Light twelve colored finger candles
Melt the wax blood to stand them
Devout arrays of aging Christendom

Flowing staggered radiating banded lights
White walled chapel’s buttery strands of light
Climbing dripping shooting stars of light
Silhouette toys mangers a zoo angels all in lights

Kaleidoscopic sounds sights lights inaugurate
Highlight joys display toys as ecstatic children chase
From Noel’s grace to New Year’s Eve’s last embrace
Nights of patterned lights vie with chaos’ doomsday race

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Disallowed

Best at sports
Then sportscasters
Beat the best
At setting records
Supreme as singers
Great-voiced actors
Among the best
At selling records
Famed orators
Framed malefactors
Culture’s envied
Benefactors
Then the black man’s
White detractors

Battles fought
Over ebony skin
Three fifths a man
Before the laws amend
Black dyed red
White and blue
Shed their blood
Died it’s true
Paid their dues
But then again
A swinging rope
A black life ends
Portends their future
Closed voting booths

Doctored history
What might have been
Had stolen lives
Worn different skins

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Same Difference

Young and old same race alike
Full of fire unruffled ice
Plashing fountain reflective pool
Up to date and old school
Both alive as daughter mother
Yet only one has been the other
 
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Champeein‘

Bloated bloke
A joke on skis
Pedigreed pure
Snow white mountain
Feigns a claim
All the best moves
Swears by god
Knows he’s got them
Downhill race
No sense of grace
Just one sure-fire
Way to win
Short a contest
Sin and spin
Set up camp and inhabit
Rule the race for
From the bottom

 

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All of life is a foreign country.
~Jack Kerouac

 

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