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

Quotes harvested from:  http://www.quotegarden.com,  https://azquotes.com

 

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