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Enga mellom fjella

by Kåre Enga in Udon Thani

Rated: 13+ · Book · Biographical · #1317094

Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.

Enga mellom Fjella

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 Lagada, la vita"

"Between us"

"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?"

"A Thanksgiving Dinner poem and the WDC Zoo"

"ENFP, what are you?"

FACES

PLACES

Kåre Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish

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Kåre Enga in Udon Thani

Apr 7, 2024 at 1:30am
In response to "M#2 rock 40w (4.mar.180) "Upon this rock""

Lyn's a sly fox: The Rock always remembers until even it is worn away by wind and water, reduced to grains of sand.

As a child I felt safe alone in my summer-garden or winter-closet. I would have envied Harry Potter's nook under the stairs.

I have good night-vision. I see the hundred shades of black and grey.

Fortunately, I live in a world of a thousand colors by day.

Lyn's a sly fox

Apr 7, 2024 at 12:43am
In response to "M#2 rock 40w (4.mar.180) "Upon this rock""

Will this castle bring her peace? you peace? me peace?

I miss the pitter=patter of little feet. Sometimes the loss overwhelms so much seek solitude in a place where darkness can only reside.

I wonder if you reside in the darkness too when I read your comments.

Kåre Enga in Udon Thani

Dec 22, 2023 at 10:34am
In response to ""No Gift From Santa This Year" D22 #17 40w 'poverty'"

Anni Pon Perhaps overdone on the references. Glad you picked up on 'venison'. 40 words makes it tight.

I was homeless years after I took in refugees. Folks did help me. Maybe that thought was lurking in the back of my mind. "Homeless" is a deadly label in so many ways. I left Kansas for Montana in 2008 because I wanted to start anew.

Anni Pon

Dec 22, 2023 at 9:14am
In response to ""No Gift From Santa This Year" D22 #17 40w 'poverty'"

I love this idea, and all the references and imagery. Especially the line: ‘Poverty was a red-nosed light-bulb flashing "homeless”…’ it’s really tragic to think of the jolly man who gives everyone gifts every year in such dire straits he has to eat his rain deer, and no one would help him….

Harlow Flick, Right Fielder

Jul 15, 2023 at 11:54am
In response to "Safety in numbers [180.57] 40w J1 "tiny""

I like the details, and anyone called Jojo the dwarf.

Harlow Flick, Right Fielder

Jul 15, 2023 at 11:52am
In response to "Lo, the nightingale [180.58] J2 40w "high" "

Fun piece.

Called to mind The Beatles number.

Kåre Enga in Udon Thani

May 12, 2023 at 8:33pm
In response to "Hidden places [13+] P#3"

Apondia Definite loss of habitat in Thailand. Elephants have a hard time as do 100 species of birds. Humans tend to not know what they have until it's all gone. Very anthrocentric.

Apondia

May 12, 2023 at 9:38am
In response to "Hidden places [13+] P#3"

I've read about the monkey problems in India and a couple other countries. I also read about loss of habitat as causes.

Kåre Enga in Udon Thani

May 12, 2023 at 3:45am
In response to "Not a luau [13+] P#4"

Wordsmitty ✍️ LOPBURI MONKEY BANQUET FESTIVAL... be there! End of November. They set a buffet in honor of the macaques that lure the tourists into town.

Maybe I should go this year?

Wordsmitty ✍️

May 12, 2023 at 2:42am
In response to "Not a luau [13+] P#4"

Monkeys love all kinds of fruit. A nice fruit salad would make them happy at a party. Andre on the other hand, ...

August 17, 2021 at 4:18pm

#1015772

Lone Elm

I imagine myself dying unknown in an unknown place.

Sound sad? Not if I get to travel around the world with my home on my back for the next 20 years.

By then I'll be past my expiration date.

Old bones are best buried.

But I've also dreamed about a small cottage somewhere where no one goes. No mountains or beach to entice the tourist. No highway to bring them to my door.

There are small towns in Kansas that come to mind. Like Lone Elm.

I'd need a car though.

To be surrounded by prairie, that sea of green grass beckoning me to enter its loneliness while listening to the wisdom that wheat whispers... that's my dream.

An edited response to "My Black Heaven"

by Harlow Flick, Right Fielder

And my response to my response...

We make choices. I've been known to overstay my welcome. Have you?

I've zigged when I should've zagged never realizing until years later that I could've zogged.

In 2008 I had to choose between Emporia, Seattle and Missoula. I chose Montana. That worked for awhile. In 2011 I moved to Costa Rica, keeping my options open to move back. Thankfully moved back.

But now?

Have I stayed here too long? Are my traveling days over? I left my heart in Kansas. Have I been away too long? Where is home?

Do I overthink then whine too much?

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