Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills. |
Sentinel Marked as if you own me I bow before the Bitterroots and just like you my rocky soil, my withered grass lays prey to the empty sky. © Kåre Enga 2007 "Sentinel" Reader's Choice of Poems: "Sentinel" "Glice" "Waterlily" "La Bella Vita" "Drugs sold here" Reader's Choice of blog entries from my old blog "L'aura del Campo" : "Death of Jeannie New Moon" "Doing and don'ting. A scene in 2nd person." "In a garden of roses, baby" "Holy day. Autumn in November. A mole." "Il pleure (poem). We R puddle-luscious, aujourd'hui." FACES PLACES Kåre Enga ~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. ~ Elizabeth Bishop The Fish |
Inspired by a photo (below) for bobturn's free verse contest. This is definitely NOT free verse! I'll have to write another from a different perspective and get this rhythm and rhyme scheme out of my head. Old Bob plants his garden In my winter, withered, worn, I plan for what's to come. For I cannot stop in springtime when life has scarce begun. And I cannot leave when summer corn withers without rain. And I cannot die in autumn before harvesting the grain. Wobbly I lean onto the barrow clad in my tattered shirt. Battered I hold fast to the ground, my hands deep in cold dirt. This is where I planted catnip, there my beloved cat. This is where I want to be planted beneath that turnip patch. Each season is but one short battle; there is no time for fun. Prop me up in this garden plot. My work here isn't done. KE [177.39] (18.april.2020) ** Image ID #2219311 Unavailable ** |