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" "In the midst of silence" "Waterlily" "Boise City" "Mauve Mavis" Reader's Choice of blog entries from my old blog "L'aura del Campo" : "Death of Jeannie New Moon" "Winter: 18 Mas'il (December 29)" "When is it proper to tell someone you love them?" "Holy day. Autumn in November. A mole." "Guitarman, a gift for Gary. Aaron Marable's art." FACES PLACES Kåre Enga ~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. ~ Elizabeth Bishop The Fish |
April evenings When twilight falls like curtains hiding us from the day, when witches weave magic with willow branches, you'll find me waiting by the empty kitchen table, cup in one hand reading about romances, wondering whether you will come home before midnight, strange fragrance on wet lips, your demeanor tame. I'll smile, stir sugar and arsenic into your tea, add my spit, never asking the witch's name. KE [177.54] (27.abril.2020) Note: The elements of the Doha are: stanzaic, written in any number of couplets; syllabic, each line is made up of 24 syllables and is paused by caesura at the end of the 13th syllable, making the line two phrases of 13 and 11 syllables. The couplet can be arranged as a quatrain breaking the line at the caesura. rhymed, aa bb cc. Commonly used for proverbs and/or for longer narratives or didactic poetry |