Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out.
~Annie Dillard

It seems to me as though caverns told stories of the past, while the ocean speaks of the eternity which is to come.
~Henry James Slack

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
~William Hazlitt

EndQuote:
“Take your shoes off,” purred the ocean waves.
~Dr SunWolf

 

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Exercise Prompt for 06/07:  torch

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When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.
~Blaise Pascal

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Posted from the Grove

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
~Joseph Conrad

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.
~H M Tomlinson

The great sea makes one a great sceptic.
~Richard Jefferies

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~Mark Rober:  ex-NASA Engineer attempts the perfect squirrel-proof bird feeder*   (21:39)
https://youtu.be/hFZFjoX2cGg

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~John Edmark:  Mathematically Inclined Sculptor*   (22:53)   math for the eyes
https://vimeo.com/342867929

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~Next Observer:  Blooming Flowers Timelapse*   (2:40)   river bed, water fed beauty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZVdQLn_E5w&feature

 

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Upon my soul, this water tastes quite nice. I wonder what vintage now?… It tastes just like the year 1881 tasted.
~G K Chesterton

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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VIDEO:

~Labyrinth Pictures:  Paradox   (17:32)   a well told story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnfh3qcpBxA

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~Shaun O’Connor:  Uisce Beatha (Whiskey – Water Of Life)   (8:07)   luck of the Irish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtJgMViTbNo

 

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I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself.
~Martin D Buxbaum

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
~Rumi

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MUSIC:  Rivers Of Sound

~from the movie, “wild”:  Red River Valley   (4:56)   it’s about loss

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~Gary Edwards:  Many Rivers To Cross   (2:14)   loss & triumph

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~Johnny Rivers:  Look To Your Soul   (3:34)   sage … advice, not a spice

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~from the movie, “Our Shining Days”:  Flight of The Bumblebee   (4:08)   a duel

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~Dan Fleury:  Many Rivers To Cross   (3:33)   visual editorial

 

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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
~James Russell Lowell

Filthy water cannot be washed.
~African Proverb

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At the far edge of my view was the ocean… I could not make sense of its size and grandeur. It was not a pond, not a lake, but a second sky, bluer and more chaotic than the one above it.
~Abby Geni

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
~Arthur C Clarke

We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.
~Edward Abbey

The tides are in our veins.
~Robinson Jeffers

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On The Saco
Albert Bierstadt

 

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All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don’t understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they’re there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it’s the other side that matters…
~Jose Saramago

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
~Norman Maclean

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@Writers Platform

The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
~Isak Dinesen

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
~Loren Eiseley

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Exercise Prompt:  river

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~BarTalk
Another Chance

By the lake I like is the life I love
In the river I wade where I fish for trout
Where the sly fish hide, can’t be tempted out
By the stream I strip, swim in naught but skin
By the sea I gaze and fall in love again

Watering can clouds that pilots fly above
Conquering masters, self-destructive louts
Kill the dreaming world they forgot about
Filtered free of man, what survives alive
A water-womb world waits the future out

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5-7-5-7-7 x 5

sweet song sung, young stream
croon soft ballads, mellow brook
river symphony
mother nature’s soothing score
played me lullabies last night

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to love is to cry
oceans of emotion drained
dried river of tears
oasis gone to desert
wait the return of spring rains

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Garden of Eden
river of generations
start of time ’til now
history’s harvest in store
wisdom seeds’ wet threshing floor

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river, a felon
vile vandal loose , on rampage
guilty of flooding
babbling smack to its jailer
locked up ‘tween fortified banks

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born a mountain rill
rivulet to wild-ride thrill
treacherous challenge
white river rapids and die
back page headline, Five Survive!

In honor of the Netherlands surfers who did not
www.foxnews.com/world/netherlands-surfer-deaths-severe-weather-storm-sea-foam

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5-7-5 x 3

rippling giggling brook
broad river when all grown up
strong, muscled for work
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herds massed riverside
lush African savanna
drink their fill on watch
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like cold water warmed
trickle to flow to a flood
slow river to love

 

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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.
~Rabindranath Tagore

It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea.
~John Ajvide Lindqvist,

I must keep living with the flowing river before my eyes. I earnestly pray that a trace of my girl-child self will always be with you. For waving good-bye, I thank you.
~Banana Yoshimoto

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*Thx to:  Rusty’s Electric Dreams

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Quoted in The Grove:
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
~George Eliot

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.
~Robert Brault

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
~Anatole France

EndQuote:
You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
~Betty White

 

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Exercise Prompt for 05/31:   river

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Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door.
~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~Albert Schweitzer

Lisa: “Do we have any food that wasn’t brutally slaughtered?”
Homer: “Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.”
~Matt Groening

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Posted from the Grove

50 Collective Nouns for Groups of Animals
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/551081/collective-nouns-groups-animals

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~The Guardian:  Monkey saves dying friend   (1:05)   reissued
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/dec/22/monkey-saves-dying-friend-train-station-india-video

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I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.
~Dr Christian Barnard

Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are like us.” Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are not like us.” Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.
~Charles R Magel

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VIDEO:

~William Wymark Jacobs:  The Monkey’s Paw   (14:50)   horror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA0nO8e0BEchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA0nO8e0BEc

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~Keep Turning Left: Pachelbel’s Canon w/ starlings in murmuration   (3:54)   reissued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY

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~Joseph S Phillips and Misty Copeland:  Swans For Relief   (6:15)
32 premier ballerinas dance The Swan for COVID relief
https://www.youtube.com/user/JosephSPhillips

 

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An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
~Martin Buber

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
~Alice Walker

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.
~Henry Beston

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MUSIC:

~Beau Davidson:  The Lion Sleeps Tonight   (3:29)   for National Geographic

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~The Animals:  We Gotta Get Out of This Place   (3:24)   another time, for now

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~Three Dog Night:  Eli’s Coming   (7:26)   note the vocals

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~The Monkees:  You May Just Be The One   (1:58)   short, sweet, cute

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Pachelbel’s Canon in D: played on a rubber chicken   (2:05)   just for fun

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I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.
~James Cromwell

People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines … not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.
~Voltaire

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
~Bradley Millar

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You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
~Nora Ephron

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
~Robert A Heinlein

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
~Leo Rosten

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
~Author Unknown

 

Ducks
© Greg Thweatt

 

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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
~Ingrid Newkirk

Dear intelligent people of the world, don’t get shampoo in your eyes. It really stings. There. Done. Now [f*@%’ing] stop torturing animals.
~Ricky Gervais

The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor, “Can they talk?” but rather, “Can they suffer?”
~Jeremy Bentham

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@Writers Platform

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril… Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
~Alice Walker

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Exercise Prompt:  animal

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~BarTalk
the good life

give me a dog to love and touch
the wagging welcome I adore so much
give me a cat to feed and pet
ears to rub for the purr I get

show me love without design
this the love I want for mine
no tit for tat or this for that
not asking when or who and what

three animals that share a bed
two with tails, two that shed
this my dream, my house, my home
daily walks and a place to roam

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rural sunset

bulls trumpeting
cattle lowing
dogs out barking
birds skylarking
sparrows cheeping
getting sleepy
hawks high hunting
pigeons homing
children laughing
kids still playing
gardeners reaping
finished weeding
farmers milking
finished hoeing
mothers fussing
fixing dinner
clouds turn color
skyline paintings
life’s true measure
animal pleasures
workmen walking
heading home

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5-7-5 x 5 x 2

because it is there
climb the steep rocky hillside
like animals do

flowers of the field
fodder for the animals
artists feed there too

sages like eagles
see the world from their aeries
obscured by the fog

men against nature
leave droppings like animals
plastic everywhere

news grows threatening
appetites without limit
animals in charge

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monkeys at their moon
trade bananas for poontang
animal instinct

bonobos bonding
because it feels good right now
animal pleasures

ape-men dressed in suits
barter dollars for a chance
animals dating

married wedding night
more than animals waiting
delayed their mating

tired love late in life
animals graduating
try masturbating

 

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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
~Emily Dickinson

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.
~Charles M Schulz

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
~Robert Brault

I subscribe to the theory that Mankind never domesticated any animal. They came in from the cold and looked cute until they were fed.
~David J Beard

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Quoted in The Grove:
Wine wears no breeches.
~English proverb

Wine makes old wives wenches.
~English proverb

When wine enters modesty departs.
~Italian Proverb~~

EndQuote:
There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom.
~Terri Guillemets

 

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Exercise Prompt for 05/24:  animal

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Wine gives a man nothing… It only puts in motion what has been locked up in frost.
~Samuel Johnson

Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can change, and wine to accept the things that I can’t.
~Internet joke

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Posted from the Grove

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
~Horace

Wine in, truth out.
~English proverb

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~Ernest Hemingway

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6 Scientific tricks for falling asleep:   (2:02)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTsJedsX1JE

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9 best breathing exercises for falling asleep
https://www.healthline.com/health/breathing-exercises-for-sleep

 

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VIDEO:

~Charles Bukowski:  Beer   ( 2:15)   poem
https://vimeo.com/158316231

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~Chris Donahoe:  Choosing the right mask   (2:56)   fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzBaWR-7jkw

 

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When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul.
~Horace

Wine in, truth out.
~English proverb

If you wish to keep your affairs secret, drink no wine.
~Proverb

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~Ernest Hemingway

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MUSIC:

~The Chapin Sisters:  Bottle Of Wine    (4:03 )   kinda country

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~Jason Webley w/ Reverend Peyton:  Two Bottles of Wine   (3:09)   raucus

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~Dzima Kobeshavidze & Irakli Balavadze:  Red Wine   (2:28)   imported

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~Robin Gibb:  Days of Wine and Roses    (4:19)     saying goodbye, poignant

~same title, different song~

~Frank Sinatra:  Days Of Wine and Roses   (2:18)   pure nostalgia

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~Olle Jönsson:  Red Red Wine   (3:08)   Diamond-like

~ same song, but different ~

Tracey Remix:   Red Red Wine  (4:10)   visually arresting

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~Jorma Kaukonen:  Whinin’ Boy Blues   (5:05)   pointed

 

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Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.
~Julio Iglesias

Give us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
~George Gordon Byron

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A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside; “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.”
~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I prefer my water in wine form.
~P C Cast

I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn’t have to wait for it to age.
~Steven Wright

I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.
~W C Fields

I drink wine because I don’t like to keep things bottled up.
~Author Unknown

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Oneonta Gorge
© Hans Stroo

 

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Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.
~Duff Cooper

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
~Louis Pasteur

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
~Aristophanes

You put it in new words, but it is an old thought. This is one of the disadvantages of wine. It makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
~Samuel Johnson

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@Writers Platform

Every so often, it is meet and proper to once again examine a peculiar subgenre of the English language — and of the American language as well — that has flowered wildly in recent years, like some pulpy jungle plant. It’s called winespeak.
~Marvin O Myers

A vineyard is planted poetry.
~Terri Guillemets

Okay, so it has sophisticated assertiveness, presumptuous breeding, crisp authority, complex balance, elegant power, and respected finesse: What does it taste like?
~Marvin O Myers

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GLASS TABLE:

~Greenie:
Breathy Voice

Thinking along a random thought
something undefined, became a’wrought

Trying to recall an inner song
words became a writhing throng

Clamorous ringing in my brain
can’t decipher a single refrain

Soul song raging to be let free
innermost urges within the depths of me

Slithering along the corridors so dark
waiting for the hope of a spark

Spilling out from fingertips
breathy voice from my full lips

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~ShepherdGirl, channeling Neale Donald Walsch

God explaining the experience of Himself:

In the beginning that which is,
is all there was, and there was nothing else,
yet all that is could not know itself,
because all that is, is all there was,
there was nothing else –
so that all that is
was not;
for in the absence of something else,
all that is, is not.
This is the great
‘is not is’
to which mystics have referred since the beginning of time.
Now…
all that is knew
it was all there was,
but this was not enough,
for it could only know its utter magnificence
conceptually, not experientially,
yet the experience of itself
is that for which it longed.
For it wanted to know what it felt like
to be so magnificent.
So this was impossible,
because the very term magnificent is a relative term.
All that is
could not know what it felt like
to be so magnificent, unless
that which is not
showed up.
In the absence of that
which is not,
that which is, is not.
You Understand this?

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Exercise Prompt:  wine

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BarTalk:
Repentant

Chardonnay wine at the end of the day
White heady wine that caused me to stray
Red steady love that I ought to obey
Burgundy wine, forgive me I pray

Red ready wine at the close of the night
One more my failing, too often my plight
It was the deadly hangover killed my delight
Now it’s the pink of rose I dread and I fight

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Cottage Song

It’s beer for a belly
And to bellow out songs
Favored brandy at sunset
Snifter to sip andd savor alone
But it’s wine for the table
And a chance to belong

A bottle for sharing
For toasting a marriage
Pour me this chalice
To crystalize friendship
Wine for those caring
To christen this Home

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Then And Now

Teddy’s bully platform espousing a cause
A bully’s platform shoes encasing his paws
State dinners where gracious etiquette shines
Or Big Macs and sodas to go with his whine
Where presidential once meant reading a book
Residential now means housing a crook
When everyday lies are stand-ins for truth
White House is a Black Stain on a nation forsooth

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5-7-5-7-7

in the time of wine
before brandy and cognac
the romance of grapes
love raped, torn, crushed from the vine
grace tables with their off’ring

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5-7-5 x 2

bottle of Bordeaux
Red Red Wine on the jukebox
plays to a heartbreak
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carafe of Merlot
Bottle of Wine her theme song
jukebox serenade

 

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In the looking-glass we see our form, in wine the heart.
~German proverb

A wine label is like a person’s face. It should tell you what you want to know about him.
~Walter S Taylor

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
~Francis Bacon

I have lived temperately….I double the doctor’s recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
~Thomas Jefferson

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