Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.
~Argosy

“Life is too short,” she panicked, “I want more.”
He nodded slowly, “Wake up earlier.”
~Dr. SunWolf

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
~Rumi

EndQuote:
For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
~Bette Howland

 

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Exercise Prompt for 04/26:   work

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Posted from the Grove

The older generation thought nothing of getting up at 5 o’clock in the morning — and the younger generation doesn’t think so much of it either.
~Author unknown

I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.
~Joanne Sherman

I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.
~Rita Rudner

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Music + 1:

~Mickey Newbury:   All My Trials   (5:27)   stately

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~Mavis Staples:   Hard Times Come Again No More   (4:12)   spiritual

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~Tommy Fleming:   Hard Times Come Again No More   (4:35)   rousing

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Quotes for Hard Times   (4:04)   solemn

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~Flash Mob:   Ode To Joy   (5:48)

 

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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
~Ambrose Bierce

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience — unless they are still up.
~Ellen Goodman

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VIDEO: CGI
The Box (La Boite):   (7:01)   cute, warm

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The Box:   (12:21)   just weird

 

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~Oscar Wilde

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
~J R R Tolkien

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
~Emily Dickinson

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I’ll tell you how the Sun rose –
A Ribbon at a time….
~Emily Dickinson

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
~Logan Pearsall Smith

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
~John Muir

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Green Dawn

© David Lorenz Winston

 

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The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.
~Thomas Jefferson

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.
~Richard Whately

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.
~Robert Brault

Dawn is opportunity opening the door.
~Terri Guillemets

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@Writers Platform

There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
~George Bird Grinnell

Dawn is a friend of the muses.
~Latin proverb

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Exercise Prompt:  dawn

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~BarTalk:
Undefeated

Dusk like a banner to announce the end of light
Dawn like a hammer to break the chains of night
Dark like a prison to lock up the gift of sight
Day like a gavel to set the wicked thing right
Bad luck to a faint-heart like the road is to flight
Man is to hard times like gritty pluck is to plight

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Dual Doggerels Dueling #19
Luminous

Fiery opalescent sunset
Pearlescent dawn of the moon
Radiant iridescent sunrise
Signs the time is ripe for love
Not tardy, not a day too soon

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Surprise

She, her beauty incandescent
He, a prepubescent adolescent
Her toothy grin full of mischief and sin
Heralds the dawn their good times begin
A puppy to love for his birthday present

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5-7-5-7-7

South of the border
Don Juan escapes in the bush
Pleads, Don’ wan’ no mo’
Dons a wan smile at the dawn
Finds new day’s nude way to play

5-7-5

umber red roof tops
pink fingers painting the dawn
splice at the skyline
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fresh ideas dawn
Aquarius nigh stillborn
the old world passes

 

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However long the night, the dawn will break.
~African Proverb

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
~Rabindranath Tagore

One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
~Khalil Gibran

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Harvested from:

azquotes.com, quotegarden.com, quoteland.com, quotationspage.com 

 

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