Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
What a profound significance small things assume when the (one) we love conceals them from us.
~Marcel Proust

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
~Voltaire

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
~Ellen Goodman

EndQuote:
We pardon to the extent that we love.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

 

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Prewritten Exercise for 02/23/20:  rocket

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Posted from the Grove

Seriously:
How to Write a Sentence
https://humanparts.medium.com/how-to-write-a-sentence-fb4d07a7dd65

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Synesthesia: Words seen as colors
Short article explains:  https://elemental.medium.com/what-color-is-your-name-a-new-synesthesia-project-will-show-you-51bb3f0dc638

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Your name translated in colors:  https://synesthesia.me/

 

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Valentine’s Day:  The After Party

Video:
Future Boyfriend   (10:25)  —  romantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_1YHHhry0w&t=69s

 

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
~Jane Austen

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The Drunkest Person at the Wedding    (3:51)  —  rude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRq3GuicTFo

 

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
~Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
~Paulo Coelho

 

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Music:
~Soul:  Say Something  —  PMJ’s Hudson Thames, Robyn Adele Anderson   (3:38)

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~Rod Stewart & Amy Belle:  I Don’t Want to Talk About It   (4:29)

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Yvette Landry & Friends: I’m Leaving It Up to You (3:56)

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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
~Erica Jong

 

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Women hope men will change after marriage but they don’t; men hope women won’t change but they do.
~Bettina Arndt

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. And don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.
~Kurt Vonnegut

 

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Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
~Linda Hogan

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Mitch Albom

 

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten Theme:  maze

~BarTalk:

Amalgam

Feelings
A maze stitched together
embroidered with words
based on instinct
Call it poetry

Thoughts
A maze in the mind
threaded together
out of chaos
Call it sanity

Love
A maze in the heart
the need of another
born of loneliness
Call it biology

Man
A maze of conflictions
constructed of mud
amazed by the stars
Call it destiny

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Ambiguities 1 & 2

First she will then she won’t
Most pleased if you would
Then you mustn’t please don’t
Her desire is a maze
And perplexities mount
First you’re welcome aboard
Then told to dismount
Made for each other
As a hand-fitted glove
Time for a break
Then madly in love
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Love and hate have collided
Time and cause coincided
Nations divided
Reasons provided
The sides are decided
Being neutral derided
So I’m off to the war
Undecided no more

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Dual Doggerels Dueling  #16

Journey

Thor’s thundering storms
Spawn swarms of fire
Charmed and disarmed
Seduce the rain to douse the pyre

Puddles pool and pools reflect
Reward the contemplative gaze
The verging and merging of rivulets
Congregate in a delta’s maze

Learned from the falling
To heed the true calling
Led by gut and gravity
Run home child
Run home to the sea

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Voyage Home

Dewdrops and newborn the dawning of tears
Drying up dying as first light appears
Crabgrass and cribs as the new day’s begun
Mourning the martyrs of the life-stealing sun
Vapors and spirits invisibly rising
Mothers heartbroken wretchedly crying

Freed from the maze of wrongs gone rife
Released from the dirt of everyday strife
Spared the failures of a compromised life
They rise to arrive and to find it heavenly
Much as the dew and all mortals do
Eventually

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The Hike

Deer paths wend their cryptic ways
Wind and climb thru the forest maze
Trees don’t speak but the moss points north
Source obscured yet a stream pours forth

Hot sun inspires a cooling breeze
Makes a sweet promise trying to please
But a cloud bank balks and disagrees
Because weather’s a woman out to tease

Backpack lunch a bottle of wine
A bucket of fun ignores the sign
Clothes are off drying in the sun
Because that’s the way new love’s begun

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5-7-5 x 2

make mine maize not wheat
arepas con chorizo
set the table please
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amore is a maze
refuse this advance choose that chance
regret both later

 

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It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles… It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.
~Marge Piercy

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

 

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