Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
~Roald Dahl

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
~Roald Dahl

There are more secrets than known facts, and there are even more mysteries than secrets.
~Fedeline Wiarta

EndQuote:
And remember, also, added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you’ll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
~Norton Juster

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Prewritten Exercise Theme:  pawn

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Posted from the Grove

Monty Python’s Terry Jones Passes On, Accepts Gig @The Golden Gate
In memoriam: Monty Python’s 10 funniest sketches
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/what-to-see/monty-pythons-10-funniest-sketches/

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Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
~Jim Crace

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Musical Motley:
~The Piano Guys:  Beethoven’s 5 Secrets    (5:07 – classical)

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~Mary Lambert:  Secrets    (3:53 – honest)

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~The Pierces:  Secrets    (3:53 – sultry)

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I like to feel the burn of the audience’s eyes when I’m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone
~Conor Oberst

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame
~Thomas Hobbes

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Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden – only ugliness and deformity.
~L M Montgomery

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.
~Sara Shepard

Why do people with bad breath always wanna tell me secrets?
~Unknown

Vernon
© Greg Thweatt

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In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
~Ritu Ghatourey

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.
~George Washington Carver

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My secrets must be poetic to be believable.
~Mick Jagger

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@Writers Platform

Glass Table:
~Greenie:  Never Truly

Rainbowed shadows of life
flickering pale images
winding walls within my mind
the only life they breathe
soft sighs and murmuring cries
the language of loneliness and loss
dreams that never die, yet
never, truly live

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The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
~Poppy Z Brite

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
~Paul Tournier

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Prewritten Theme:  secrets

~BarTalk:
journeys’ journal #26

secret ink
can’t be erased
secret’s key
can’t be replaced

secret fears
encrypted notes
schemed in secret
a secret vote

fudge the truth
risk disgrace
contrive the win
a disputed race
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secret door
to a secret place
secret bridge
to a sacred space

secret garden
a secret dream
a novel secret
a secret theme

secret love
an open sin
declared my love
she let me in

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Players and The Played
or
Preyers and The Preyed Upon

Comey’s non-comedy
Pelosi’s proof for history
McConnell’s neutered toothless kennel
Schiff’s short shrift on the late news channel

Felony is not the enemy
Greed’s false profit as deity
Dynasty rules gov’s galaxy
Gospel truth burned in effigy

Founders dream of democracy
Now drawn and quartered in agony
Once a country footstool colony
As eulogies turn to elegy

O’er two centuries worth their work undone
As seats of justice become a throne

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5-7-5 x 4

clouds have no secrets
blush shocking reds at sunset
spill tears without shame
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secret hiding post
gunshot rings from the mountain
when our dinner died
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it’s confession time
use bricks from the wall to build
a bridge ‘tween secrets
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not money or spice
secret ingredient
it was love she said

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when

there are secrets in the silence
but the stars understand
they have ears
they have eyes
they have memory
the patience of eons
and should we learn it
should we earn it
the time comes…

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We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
~Albert Einstein

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.
~Ted Simon

In the long run, there are no secrets in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
~Michael Kube-McDowell/Arthur C Clarke

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Finally:
You need to know things the others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
~Don DeLillo

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.
~Kate Morton

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Quoted in The Grove:
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they’ve had since time began.
~Marguerite Duras

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
~Edgar Watson Howe

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
~Twyla Tharp

EndQuote:
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
~William Faulkner

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Prewritten Exercise Theme:  secret

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Posted from the Grove

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
~John Ed Pearce

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~George A Moore

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Music: Three different treatments of home

~Sophie Zelmani:  Going Home   (3:19)

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~Melodickabros:  Country Roads, Take Me Home   (3:54 of 7:39)

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~Mary Fahl:  Going Home   (3:40)

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CGI Video:  Home, Sweet Home   (9:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKRZn0uS6eA

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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
~Kin Hubbard

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
~Earl Wilson

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Talent Light
© Silvia Trujillo

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Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
~Goethe

Peace – that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris

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Prewritten Theme:  home

~BarTalk:
home bears a resemblance to yesterday

the windows are open
the views are familiar
the table’s my setting
chairs shaped to my liking
filled cupboard with favorites
friend Memory visits
new company welcome
yet roads are the same
where safe rhymes with stale
…and nothing changes

home bears a resemblance to yesterday
where the door is a gift
and the present is now

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Strange

Home stoned with the strange
Where the Dear Johns and can’t-elopes lay
Where ‘sell them’ is heard
A disparaging word
And the spies are thought naughty to play

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pooch on a porch

news is mad crazy
leaders all creepy
streets are all trashy
relationships messy
i am a dog and
this world is my home

mister’s a sharpie
the missus a harpie
the kids are unhappy
neighbors are crappy
and they have no dog
to make it a home

father paints and is artsy
mother’s life of the party
daughter’s a cutie
son honors his duty
i am their dog and
i give them a home

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Neanderthal home
foreign hardly alien
when faced with the stars

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I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
~Bob Dylan

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Quoted in The Grove:
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
~Flavia Weedn

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
~Josh Billings

EndQuote:
Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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Harvested from: The Quote Garden
Curated by: Wordgrove

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Prewritten Exercise Theme:   home

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Posted from the Grove

Marcel Proust Character Questionnaire: Questions to ask characters in your book
https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/character-questionnaire/proust?utm_source

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~Dust video:  Ascension   (7:09)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6UcW9xLxwo

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You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.
~Joe Namath

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
~Babe Ruth

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Prewritten Theme:   persistence
~BarTalk:
Dual Doggerels Dueling   #12

Robert the Bruce

Scotland’s own hero
The daring and brave
Beaten exhausted
Holed up in a cave
Witnessed a spider
Trying to weave
A web by her nature
The design preconceived
Undaunted by struggle
Undertook and achieved
Awed by her trials
Ground in natal belief
Took heart for the fight
And the land he would save

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Capitol Idea

Moon shots
The Great Wall and pyramids
Sling shot
Goliath and what David did
Bullied
Derided for her Warren piece
Explained to
Warned about
Told to cease

Nevertheless
She persisted

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Formula

Instants of courage
Fill pages of history
From laser sharp focus
To limitless energy
Heritage or knowledge
Spokesman for deity
Privilege plus college
All have their place but
Don’t solve the mystery

Achievements in science
To adventures in finance
From success in the arts
Name topping the charts
Music and movies
Theater and dance
Hard work and great heart
All play a part
But leave it to chance

Strive to succeed
Look for ways to advance
From guile to chicanery
The come-hither glance
Lucky in love moneyed romance
Fortunate birth with inheritance
These the ingredients with relevance
But heading the list for significance
Try persistence

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persist: how to win
persevere: outlasting them
perspire: shows you tried

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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
~Jacob A Riis

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