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Lightning
Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:21 pm by queengoogoo
In the evening when the day is done
And no more is the light from the sun,
I look upon the stars Heaven high
And find gratefulness deep inside.
But then there are nights a storm rolls in,
And the twinkles disappear above the lightning.
The thunder accompanying the flash,
Lets me embrace the rain's splash.
These strikes pealing within the darkness
Makes me feel I have been blessed.
For there is …
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And no more is the light from the sun,
I look upon the stars Heaven high
And find gratefulness deep inside.
But then there are nights a storm rolls in,
And the twinkles disappear above the lightning.
The thunder accompanying the flash,
Lets me embrace the rain's splash.
These strikes pealing within the darkness
Makes me feel I have been blessed.
For there is …
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Suggestions, Opinions?
Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:07 pm by cuthugas
Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to see if anyone has anything to say now that you've had a chance to use the forum a bit.
Is there anything you don't like? Something you would like to see changed? This site gives us a lot of flexbility to modify just about everything you see, so if you can't stand something, or have a suggestion on how something should look/work, let us know.
Just wanted to see if anyone has anything to say now that you've had a chance to use the forum a bit.
Is there anything you don't like? Something you would like to see changed? This site gives us a lot of flexbility to modify just about everything you see, so if you can't stand something, or have a suggestion on how something should look/work, let us know.
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New Forum Format
Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:46 am by Admin
Hello Everyone,
This is the new format for our WVW Writing Forum. The hope is that this will better facilitate the membership's need for interaction, and will also act as a centralized location for news and information about WVW upcoming events and news. Please feel free to start a conversation, ask for advice, or just voice your opinion about a topic. Please thoroughly read our rules and …
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This is the new format for our WVW Writing Forum. The hope is that this will better facilitate the membership's need for interaction, and will also act as a centralized location for news and information about WVW upcoming events and news. Please feel free to start a conversation, ask for advice, or just voice your opinion about a topic. Please thoroughly read our rules and …
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First Prompt "Competition" Ever
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tseffers
stopeka
Karen Nowviskie
Admin
salou
cuthugas
ChristinaFreeburn
writingdianet
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First Prompt "Competition" Ever
First topic message reminder :
Greetings West Virginia Writers:
I used to eschew writing prompts. Recently though, I am enamoured with them. They have been like coffee to my writing life. I would love for you to experience the creative buzz also. Therefore, I am initiating a first here at the WVW forum--a Wednesday to Wednesday prompt-driven writing competition.
For this initial endeavor, the word I would like you to utilize is . . . drumroll please . . . MOUNTAIN. Your entry must be more than 27 words and equal to or less than 270 words. Feel free to write in the genre of your choice.
Competition will close next Tuesday night at midnight as the calendar turns over to March 7, 2012. At that point my secretly selected judging panel and I will determine which entry we are most enthusiastic about. Winner will receive a) bragging rights and b) 27cents next time I see you.
Fondly,
WritingDianeT
Greetings West Virginia Writers:
I used to eschew writing prompts. Recently though, I am enamoured with them. They have been like coffee to my writing life. I would love for you to experience the creative buzz also. Therefore, I am initiating a first here at the WVW forum--a Wednesday to Wednesday prompt-driven writing competition.
For this initial endeavor, the word I would like you to utilize is . . . drumroll please . . . MOUNTAIN. Your entry must be more than 27 words and equal to or less than 270 words. Feel free to write in the genre of your choice.
Competition will close next Tuesday night at midnight as the calendar turns over to March 7, 2012. At that point my secretly selected judging panel and I will determine which entry we are most enthusiastic about. Winner will receive a) bragging rights and b) 27cents next time I see you.
Fondly,
WritingDianeT
writingdianet- Posts : 23
Join date : 2012-02-21
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
Nice work, Shirley. I'd like to be there right now. Thanks for sharing.
writingdianet- Posts : 23
Join date : 2012-02-21
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
writingdianet wrote:Hawk-stitched. I like that. Like it alot. Thank you for joining us.
Thank you! I'm still getting used to that no-pants-on-the-bus feeling of putting your work out there for other, more experienced writers to see and comment on. No better way, and from what I can tell--no better group!
tseffers- Posts : 6
Join date : 2012-03-04
Age : 58
Location : Shenandoah River, WV
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
Dear Tseffers:
In my experience, prompt-driven events are very friendly and encouraging. A wonderful way to ease your writing into the public eye.
Thank you for being brave. I enjoyed your piece very much.
In my experience, prompt-driven events are very friendly and encouraging. A wonderful way to ease your writing into the public eye.
Thank you for being brave. I enjoyed your piece very much.
writingdianet- Posts : 23
Join date : 2012-02-21
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
I am revisiting and uprooting work I'm not happy with the specificity of lately. Here's a bite:
Today we watched the sun set
Over Maryland -
In the final glow before it sank
Beyond the mountains
The trees were red
And golden monsters
Hovering above our heads
Waiting to cover us
With autumn
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
The trees were red and golden monsters. How wonderful. Thanks for joining in, Alicia.
writingdianet- Posts : 23
Join date : 2012-02-21
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
Yay, I'm playing along! Here's a reflection on a class on Appalachian culture I took a while back:
I search through the pages of a book to find my name. I find
my grandfather’s story there; feel his hands shape me with a coal pick. Between
those pages I hear the song of the earth. And I wonder about this place called
Appalachia—this place that beats strong in the heart of me.
I read about the history, the culture, the land. I hug the
words close and picture my ancestors wandering in virgin forests, loving on
mountains and in valleys, wading through rivers and streams. I feel rich with
these words; they name my deepest parts.
“These are some of the
oldest mountains on our planet,” teacher says. “That’s why they are so gentle—so welcoming of life.”
He talks about how the Appalachian people love the land, how—to
love the people—one must love the land. We talk about rapid industrialization
in the late 1800s and early 1900s. How the natural resources were exploited and
the people left barren.
“Most of our forest
here are third or fourth generation…”
He connects the dots from the past to the present and I grieve
the death of forests. At night I dream about those first generation trees. About
the Iroquois and Cherokee who loved them in their infancy. In my heart I hear
the echo of their fall, gasp at the wide expanse of their trunks. The trees are
my kin and so is anyone who loves these mountains.
The earth whispers: you
must become like the mountains. I take this whisper and carry it inside of
me.
The mountains know my name.
I search through the pages of a book to find my name. I find
my grandfather’s story there; feel his hands shape me with a coal pick. Between
those pages I hear the song of the earth. And I wonder about this place called
Appalachia—this place that beats strong in the heart of me.
I read about the history, the culture, the land. I hug the
words close and picture my ancestors wandering in virgin forests, loving on
mountains and in valleys, wading through rivers and streams. I feel rich with
these words; they name my deepest parts.
“These are some of the
oldest mountains on our planet,” teacher says. “That’s why they are so gentle—so welcoming of life.”
He talks about how the Appalachian people love the land, how—to
love the people—one must love the land. We talk about rapid industrialization
in the late 1800s and early 1900s. How the natural resources were exploited and
the people left barren.
“Most of our forest
here are third or fourth generation…”
He connects the dots from the past to the present and I grieve
the death of forests. At night I dream about those first generation trees. About
the Iroquois and Cherokee who loved them in their infancy. In my heart I hear
the echo of their fall, gasp at the wide expanse of their trunks. The trees are
my kin and so is anyone who loves these mountains.
The earth whispers: you
must become like the mountains. I take this whisper and carry it inside of
me.
The mountains know my name.
laura boggess- Posts : 1
Join date : 2012-03-03
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
Lovely, Laura. Just lovely. Thank you for playing with us!
writingdianet- Posts : 23
Join date : 2012-02-21
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
Evening's greetings, everyone:
I'm hoping this message will go into all the participants' email boxes.
The majority of the offerings this week have been poems, something I am very ill-equipped to judge. I know what I like, but not necessarily what is well-crafted. As such, I suggest that this prompt-driven challenge be of a "People's Choice" nature.
I would like anyone participating or viewing the entries to email me personally with the title of their favorite piece. My email address is: writingdianet@gmail.com. I will tabulate the results and announce the winner on Wednesday morning.
Thank you~
I'm hoping this message will go into all the participants' email boxes.
The majority of the offerings this week have been poems, something I am very ill-equipped to judge. I know what I like, but not necessarily what is well-crafted. As such, I suggest that this prompt-driven challenge be of a "People's Choice" nature.
I would like anyone participating or viewing the entries to email me personally with the title of their favorite piece. My email address is: writingdianet@gmail.com. I will tabulate the results and announce the winner on Wednesday morning.
Thank you~
writingdianet- Posts : 23
Join date : 2012-02-21
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
Mountain Song
This trail,
Long since abandoned
Save, the hooves and paws
Of wild skittering beast
Through the sage and berry
Then upward,
Blazing greenbrier and vine
Then on and up
Climbing shoulder upon shoulder
Of hill towered of cathedral wood
And stone slab and obelisk
Of sunlight,
Filtered, shaded by
This morning’s cloudy veil
And on
To the summit.
As day erupts
From beneath and above
Brittle rays of sunlight
Trigger the leaves and straw
To waft gentle puffs up through
This Eden.
This soft wind rends a cadence,
Viols hollowed tender bark,
Flutes a million reeds,
Plucks untold score of string,
Trumpets the hollows of these hill
And lifts this symphony
In dissident harmonies
Toward us at the zenith
As our maker conducts
An opus
That cannot be heard,
That may only be felt
And raises our spirits
To a joyous fever pitch.
I shall never stray far from this hill.
This trail,
Long since abandoned
Save, the hooves and paws
Of wild skittering beast
Through the sage and berry
Then upward,
Blazing greenbrier and vine
Then on and up
Climbing shoulder upon shoulder
Of hill towered of cathedral wood
And stone slab and obelisk
Of sunlight,
Filtered, shaded by
This morning’s cloudy veil
And on
To the summit.
As day erupts
From beneath and above
Brittle rays of sunlight
Trigger the leaves and straw
To waft gentle puffs up through
This Eden.
This soft wind rends a cadence,
Viols hollowed tender bark,
Flutes a million reeds,
Plucks untold score of string,
Trumpets the hollows of these hill
And lifts this symphony
In dissident harmonies
Toward us at the zenith
As our maker conducts
An opus
That cannot be heard,
That may only be felt
And raises our spirits
To a joyous fever pitch.
I shall never stray far from this hill.
T.W. McNemar- Posts : 2
Join date : 2011-01-07
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
Beautiful, beautiful! Let's re-open the voting!
The movement up and up leads us to the "joyous fever pitch" of the opus that we feel in our bones!
Excellent work.
The movement up and up leads us to the "joyous fever pitch" of the opus that we feel in our bones!
Excellent work.
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
Super job, T-dog:)
Karen . . . go for it. Get something going this week:)
Karen . . . go for it. Get something going this week:)
writingdianet- Posts : 23
Join date : 2012-02-21
Re: First Prompt "Competition" Ever
I realized today that I lost a day this week (somewhere) and inadvertently entered this prompt competition late, so I just wanted to apologize although I'm happy I worked out this time warp before the weekend. Excellent work y'all.
Okay Lady Di, fire off round two.....
Okay Lady Di, fire off round two.....
T.W. McNemar- Posts : 2
Join date : 2011-01-07
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