Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
~Matthew 7:12

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
~Wayne Dyer

Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
~Habib Ali al-Jifri

EndQuote:
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

 

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Exercise Prompt for 07/05:  night

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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.
~Richard Whately

It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
~Alexander Pope

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
~Dandemis

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Posted from the Grove

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
~Jean Baudrillard

Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.
~Steve Maraboli

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~Alfred Noyes:  The Highwayman   (8:58)   dramatic poem enacted
Directed by: Oliver Chater, Narrated by: Ryan Cooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNvBVJpa1h4&t=170s

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~The Mercadantes:  Naps   (2:00)   short documentary
https://vimeo.com/405862926

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~Huffington Post:  6 Things You Thought Wrong About Introverts  ̶  an update
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/introvert-tweets-may_l_5ee9a9c9c5b695286b78d0ca?ncid

 

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Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
~Jim Horning

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
~Voltaire

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
~Saint Augustine

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
~William Penn

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VIMEO VIDEO:   Different take on similar  titles

~David Lowery:  Pioneer   (15:53)   bedtime story
https://vimeo.com/18441243

-or-

~SLMBR PRTY:  Pioneers   (11:03)   first impressions
https://vimeo.com/399671714

 

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The most dangerous leap is the leap to conclusions.
~Woodrow Kroll

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
~Publilius Syrus

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.
~Dagobert D Runes

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
~Woodrow Wilson

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MUSIC:

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
~Stephen Covey

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
~Sydney J Harris

 

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~The Band Perry:  Gentle On My Mind   (4:19)   call of the wild

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~Dirty Dancing – Sarah Hyland w/ J Quinton:  Don’t Think Twice   (3:39)   just dance

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~Avengers – Infinity War ending:  Dust In The Wind   (3:25)   the time comes

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~The Highwaymen:  Highwayman   (3:22)    …and beyond

 

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
~Henry Ward Beecher

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
~Elvis Presley

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
~John F Kennedy

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing ̶ the result.
~Vince Lombardi

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A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
~Paul Eldridge

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
~Charles Spurgeon

After all, people judge one another according to their own feelings. It is only the miser who sees others enticed by money, the lustful who see others obsessed by desire.
~Irène Némirovsky

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
~Charles Edwin Carruthers

While you were busy judging others, you left your closet open and a lot of skeletons fell out.
~unknown

If you find it necessary to judge someone by their past, don’t be surprised when they find it necessary to put you there.
~unknown

 

Hippocrene 

Nicolas Poussin

 

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Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.
~Traci Lea Larussa

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
~Jack Kornfield

We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.
~Walker Percy

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!
~Dieter F Uchtdorf

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@Writers Platform

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
~Edgar Quinet

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Exercise Prompt:  judge

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~BarTalk:

Beauty Contest

Week-long visit, day number one
Park lawn sketched in emerald green
Plain Jane’s face to the morning sun
Eyes more green than gem has ever been

Sky brilliant blue, day number two
Outdoor bookstore, couldn’t ask for more
Yet sapphire eyes change the answer to
How Cinderella-in-sweats pries open doors

Autumn’s umber, midweek’s day in town
Coffee shop Ms propped in her corner nook
Glasses off unveil her gentle browns
Eyes more rich with story than any book

Clouds rule the next and fourth day
When a silver fox, grandchild in tow
Eyes of grey to steal one’s breath away
A poet’s dream takes flight and flows

Ticket in pocket before heading back
To crowds and city life’s frantic pace
When exotic eyes of sloe-eyed black
Make one’s heart skip and race

A week away to dodge the daily drudge
To fall in love again and not to judge

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5-7-5-7-7 x 2

interview question
does karma reach to the stars
judgement call is ours
when we try for admittance
as aliens to their shores

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lost dog wandering
loose chain, leather mask, face grill
can’t hide pleading eyes
judgement made that he would die
slack skin, jutting bones set free

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5-7-5 x 2

tennis was the court
career at end, call too close
judgement went to love

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misjudged the moment
faced with coming elections
truth got in the way

 

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It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
~Moliere

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
~Voltaire

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
~Ann Patchett

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Quoted in The Grove:
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island
~Walt Disney

I don’t think there’s much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there’s some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don’t bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
~Peter Singer

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.
~Barbara Marx Hubbard

EndQuote:
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
~Anne Lamott

 

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Exercise Prompt for 06/28:  judge

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The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles’ demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion. The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small and inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.
~Herodotus

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Posted from the Grove

The conductor’s stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
~Riccardo Muti

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
~Abe Fortas

Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge.
~Buddha

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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Special Edition:  More of the same
No one accepted the Special Edition challenge. A shame, really. There are better poets in There.com than this editor.

 

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~Stefan Hunt:  They Saw the Sun First   (8:12)
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/412443719

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How the Publishing World Is Staying Alive During Pandemic
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-the-publishing-world-is-staying-afloat-during-the-pandemic_n_5ec431c9c5b69985547b5a5b?ncid

 

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Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
~Baltasar Gracian

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don’t have enough brains to have your good taste.
~Ray Bradbury

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VIDEO:

~Vier Nev:  A Mind Sang   (6:11)   line takes on life, evolves, becomes
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/430690235

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~Key & Peele:  Awkward Apologies from White People*   (3:18)   squirm worthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrhWLfmfZ0Y

 

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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
~Albert Einstein

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.
~William James

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
~Jeanette Winterson

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MUSIC:   Wide variety, pick to taste

~Hart of Dixie proposal:  Islands In The Stream   (2:52)   feel-goods included

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~Zac Brown Band:  Island Song   (3:36)   3½ minute vacation

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~Alison Luff:  Island Song  (Escape With Me)   (3:33)
If the song queued up after this is, She Used to Be Mine, watch it

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~Tout Va Bien:  Have You  (the island song)   (2:58)   island, pronounce it ‘alone’

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~Renée Dominique:  Island In The Sun  (Weezer cover)   (2:44)   understated

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~Ikson:  Island   (3:13)   from the driver’s seat of a Lamborghini  (just because)

 

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The conductor’s stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
~Riccardo Muti

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
~Abe Fortas

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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I was sitting one day and thinking about cannibalism, because that’s what guys like me do … and I thought, suppose a guy was washed up on a rocky island, how much of himself could he eat?
~Stephen King

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
~Steven Wright

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.
~Simon Munnery

I took my son to Coney Island, I said “wanna go in the crazy house?”, he said “save your money we’ll be home soon”
~Rodney Dangerfield

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My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: ‘Don’t be Sicily’.
~Tim Vine

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.
~Terry Pratchett

 

 

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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
~John Archibald Wheeler

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~Ralph Washington Sockman

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.
~Ashleigh Brilliant

The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
~William Arthur Ward

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@Writers Platform

Everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
~Guy Gavriel Kay

Best of an island is once you get there – you can’t go any farther … you’ve come to the end of things.
~Agatha Christie

I knew I couldn’t live in America and I wasn’t ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America – New York City .
~Spalding Gray

As a New Yorker, I’m someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
~Laurie Anderson

 

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Exercise Prompt:  island

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~BarTalk:

Compatible

Clouds in ceaseless motion
Morphing, emerging, evolving
Transitioning while in transit
Sunny dispositions
Roiling emotions
Sunset complexion
Predictable tantrums
Restless, unfolding spirits
Grow moody in migration
Break up, rejoin, renew themselves
Shed tears of sadness and joy
Temperamental sky islands
Brothers under the skin
Clouds move me

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Dual Doggerels Dueling  #21

At Liberty

The house for you
An island for me
A moss covered rock
Solitary tree
You tried, we cried
Troubled identities
Court granted both
Sanctuary

The He-did Ditty

Sequestered isle, end of life
Eschewed love’s aisle and wedding vows
An island’s peace instead of strife
I’ll land alone as death allows

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Biograph

Not just feeble but visibly failing
If not deranged, certifiably unhinged
Cowers a brawler who crawls from danger
But signs of conscience, nary a twinge
No genuflecting choir, no bowing angels
Not smelling sourly of sulfur and singe

Not yet vetted for a golden crown
Sits a golden toilet his diurnal throne
No chiseling statue of Carrara marble
But fools gold shine, pale yellow brimstone
Self-sworn apostle of chimerical cures
Yet apostate opponent of the Golden Rule

Not swayed by facts, no fan of science
Thinks experts bore and reading a chore
Mistakes his wishes and mirrors for truth
Speaks in tweets, but squeaks don’t roar
Midst an ocean of  waving crowds
Squats Lyin’ Island, but lion no more

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5-7-5-7-7 x 1

currently in vogue
faithless feckless fupped duck GrOuP
islands in the way
vote no to fresh dream’s boatload
closed future’s door now they’re in

 

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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
~Luke Rhinehart

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!
~Mehmet Murat Ildan

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.
~Charles Stross

Old age is an island surrounded by death.
~Juan Montalvo

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’
~Denis Waitley

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*Thx to:  Daily PNut.com

 

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Quoted in The Grove:
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
~Ovid

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
~Andrew Harvey

EndQuote:
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
~Antonio Porchia

 

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Exercise Prompt for 06/21:  island

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In love, somehow, a man’s heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
~Helen Rowland

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
~Barbara Kingsolver

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.
~Alfred Adler

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Posted from the Grove

Next week:  a special edition from Wordgrove, in There.com

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~fs.blog:  The Art of Being Alone
https://fs.blog/2020/06/being-alone/

 

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
~Henry Ward Beecher

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel,
I would look upon the world anew, and know what’s truly real.
~Van Morrison

You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.
~Johnny Depp

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VIDEO:

~Erick Oh:  Heart   (8:35)   animated allegory
https://vimeo.com/52369262

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~Motel Pictures Inc:  We Forgot to Break Up   (15:22)   finding new ways to hurt
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/427480079

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~ADEM CREW:  Fantastic Dance   (6:16)   just enjoy it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfMoWcwm-bE

 

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Sometimes what gets to you most isn’t the large holes that get ripped from your heart but the fraying of all its edges — when the thing that held you together isn’t anymore.
~Terri Guillemets

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?
~Rosa Parks

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself putting it back together.
~Author Unknown

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MUSIC:

~Lucas Kruger:  Heart Upon My Sleeve   (4:15)   Avicii Tribute Concert

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~Blondie:  Heart Of Glass – PMJ, ft. Addie Hamilton   (3:57)   torched

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~Heart:  What About Love   (3:44)   good question, unanswered

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~Enrique Iglesias:  Heart Attack   (3:50)   terminal velocity

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~Kanye West:  Heartless   (3:40)   the beat of heartbreak, animated

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~Liberace:  I Left My Heart In San Francisco   (3:29)  just the ivories, tickled

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~Rainer Hersch:  Orchestral hijinks   (8:03)    sacrilege, a knife to the heart of classical music, fun

 

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Our heart is like an unfinished puzzle — that is why we search for the perfect one to complete it.
~Author unknown

Let the sun stop burning,
Let them tell me love’s not worth going through.
If it all falls apart,
I will know deep in my heart,
The only dream that mattered had come true
In this life I was loved by you.
~Bette Midler

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau

 

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I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
~Charlotte Bronte

People who say “It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” never felt a broken heart.
~LeBron James

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
~Donna Roberts

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Room in NY

Edward Hopper

 

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Every heart has its dark recesses, its cheerful sunny parlors, and its attic chambers.
~James Lendall Basford

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
~Charles Caleb Colton

Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart’s curtain?
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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@Writers Platform

No one can really see what he loves. How many people worship God without ever getting a look at him? What can eyes see that the heart can’t see better?
~Ben Hecht, Samuel Hoffenstein, and André De Toth

God, why do I storm heaven for answers that are already in my heart? Every grace I need has already been given me. Oh, lead me to the Beyond within.
~Macrina Wieherkehr

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~John Bunyan

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Exercise Prompt:  heart

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When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don’t touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?
~Tori Amos

What is uttered from the heart alone,
Will win the hearts of others to your own.
~Goethe

 

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~Greenie:

Does

Does a Comet ever burn as bright
if there’s no one to see it soar through the night

Does the sun lose its brilliant heat
like two hearts whose love they never meet

Do the stars fade away and dim
like the passing of a frivolous whim

Do dreams burn away and end
if there’s no hope to carry them like wind

Does a lonely heart forever yearn
like solar flares that ever burn…

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~BarTalk:

Seminar

The movie watched:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The book read:
The Heart of Darkness
The music listened to:
The Unfinished Symphony
The words I heard:
“Let it be, let it be”

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5-7 olio

bridge, flowered garden
heart parked by slowing water
next the wooded grove

a place set apart
chickens, a dog, cows nearby
heart full of gladness
cloudless sky, red letter day
made for dilettante poets

heart of the matter
edit thoughts for clarity
the reach for wisdom

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5-7-5-7-7 x 3

scouting for passion
the search for a comely miss
thrills, the tender kiss
this heart hunts with a mission
sets lures, the bait is kindness

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provocative lies
make a mockery of truth
put knife to the heart
undermine democracy
until the voters catch on

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heart like a river
lives coursing free and vital
streams of new vigor
dammed by anemic old men
damn a great nation to fall

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5-7-5 x 3

silent censored heart
blue-penciled body language
yet look to the eyes

love’s desire exposed
vulnerable with a hope
the heart on display

language barriers
yet no finer words for it
save, heart of my heart

 

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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.
~Vincent Van Gogh

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.
~Littlefoot’s mother

When your heart speaks, take good notes.
~Judith Campbell

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.
~P D James

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Curated by: Wordgrove

 

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