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Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
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L'aura del campo

'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos'
♣ Federico García Lorca ♣


Higgins Street Bridge, April 25th 2009, Missoula, Montana


L'aura del campo. A breeze in the meadow. So it began the last day of Spring, 2005; on the 16th day of the month of Light of the year 162. This is a supplement to my daily journal written to a friend, my muse; notes I do not share. Here I will share what the breeze has whispered to me.

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IN MEMORIUM

VerySara

passed away November 12, 2005

Please visit her port to read her poems and her writings.
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Knees of the trees, a fountain, a rainbow, Muscogee, OK in 2004.
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 Kåre *Leaf5* Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
~ Elizabeth Bishop,
The Fish
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July 10, 2020 at 6:24pm
July 10, 2020 at 6:24pm
#987760
Consideration

Once upon a little star*
I sat there waiting

if perchance you needed help,
some explanation.

Once upon an asterisk
I spoke in latin,

clarified confusing thoughts
or consternation.

© Kåre Enga [177.131] (11.juli.2020)

*asterisk: 'a little star'

(8 lines: 7/5/7/5)

Choose any word to use in your poem, AND also include the listed meaning.

Two Latin words for a star or constellation: 'aster' and 'sidus'. They glimmer across English:

disaster: an ill-starred event.
asterisk: a little star.
astronaut: a star-sailor.
consider: to observe the stars.
desire: to wish upon a star.

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Notes to self:

12/12 or 7/5/7/5 (48 syllables total), rhythmic.

"mollified conflicting thoughts
or constipation"
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July 9, 2020 at 5:55pm
July 9, 2020 at 5:55pm
#987672
Unanswered

We danced until the twilight faded; we danced
until the break of dawn; we tangoed
all week on vacation: London
Barcelona, Paris, Rome.
Now wanting more you call:
and the blinking light,
unopened mail,
my silence,
questions
all...

© Kåre Enga [177.130] (9.juli.2020)

(10 lines) A reverse etheree 10...1.

Prompt: UNANSWERED

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July 9, 2020 at 2:01pm
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Porto

He invites us,
tattered, torn and pocked,
yet offers a glass of port,
in languid sybaritic pose.

© Kåre Enga [177.128] (9.juli.2020)

(14 syllables, free verse, prompt: sybaritic)

Photo: looking west down the Rio Douro from the bridge connecting Porto to the right with Vila Nova Gaia. Portugal © Kåre Enga (3.outubro.2017)

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July 8, 2020 at 5:37pm
July 8, 2020 at 5:37pm
#987589
Waiting for the trash

Lost thoughts, half-baked ideas,
old photos no one asks to see,
the litter of a life lived long
but not too well it seems.
Their stench of disappointment fades
and in that box I never open
daydreams I dared to dream.

They beg to be released,
but I've ignored them for so long
they're just memories waiting for the trash
like that tiny box
you ask about, as if you do not know
that's where I've kept my heart
hoping it would someday grow.

© Kåre Enga [177.129] (9.juli.2020)

(14 lines)

*RibbonB* Prompt: What's in the box over there?

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July 7, 2020 at 2:21pm
July 7, 2020 at 2:21pm
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Belgrade burning

Anger explodes as curfews loom
and youth reject their elders' pleas;
more facile to fashion coffins.

© Kåre Enga [175.125] (8.juli.2020)

8/8/8

July 8 prompt: facile

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July 5, 2020 at 4:37pm
July 5, 2020 at 4:37pm
#987302
July, 1935

His cousin drove up
in his Pierce Arrow.
while his other cousin,
a slim vaquero,
guided the bull.
The possibility,
now probability,
was that something would go awry.
He knew shit flew between those two,
so he went to join his doe-eyed bride,
inside. As he always said:
He preferred his shoofly pie
without the flies.

When all was reduced,
to clarify,
like a side dish
of butter-and-brains,
all that remained
now fit in a barrow
full of manure, bone meal and marrow
fit to compost
for next year's garden
out past the outhouse,
near the pasture,
next to the shiny Pierce Arrow
resplendent over their graves.

© Kåre Enga [177.121] (6.july.2020)

26 lines

Prompts:

- Arrow
- Clarify
- Possibility

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July 5, 2020 at 3:53pm
July 5, 2020 at 3:53pm
#987298
When we are ready

It's the emptiness between our ears
we fill with harmful fears,
turning inward, raising walls
harder than our skulls.

But not to worry—
Outer Space is in no hurry
to invite us to the Universe
beyond our earthly hearse.

© Kåre Enga [177.119] (5.juli.2020)

8 lines, aabb ccdd rhyme

Space: The Final Frontier

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July 4, 2020 at 8:19pm
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A forty-niner's 20/20

Shiny things:
sun and gold and
fertile fields.

Now euphoria* succumbs
on some California* beach.

© Kåre Enga [177.122] (6.juli.2020)

*both 4 syllables in my dialect.

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July 3, 2020 at 6:22pm
July 3, 2020 at 6:22pm
#987154
To remember Tokyo

He places
shellfish
next to soy sauce
with shiitake on the side
adds seaweed and wilted spinach
sprinkled with Parmesan cheese.
He fills a bowl with miso
and pours green tea.

He savors his umami1 bomb
restful on a table —
until his chopsticks
interrupt in haste
to consume whatever pleasure's
in his sight,
but never never
Vegemite.

© Kåre Enga [177.118] (3.juli.2020)

(16 lines)

Write a poem that heavily relies on taste. Whether it’s about your favourite food, something you detest, or you licked a lamppost. It’s up to you!

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Footnotes
1  Umami 旨味 taste is common to foods that contain high levels of L-glutamate, IMP and GMP, most notably in fish, shellfish, cured meats, meat extracts, mushrooms, vegetables (e.g., ripe tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, spinach, celery, etc.), green tea, hydrolysed vegetable protein, and fermented and aged products involving bacterial or yeast cultures, such as cheeses, shrimp pastes, fish sauce, soy sauce, nutritional yeast, and yeast extracts such as Vegemite and Marmite.
July 3, 2020 at 3:18am
July 3, 2020 at 3:18am
#987103
In Cathedrals of the Book

In cathedrals of the book
they turn the pages of the tomes
in search of hallelujahs, comb
for insight, wisdom as they look,

through ancient parchment treasures,
at ornate scenes inked from herbs;
they consider the weight of words
worth more than gold stamped leather.

The stories of their childhood,
the doleful angst of every youth,
the search for universal truth,
the battles of evil and good,

all lie hidden in the pages
brought to them by thoughtful clerks
who help them search through massive works
of sinners, saints and sages.

© Kåre Enga [175.117] (7.juli.2020)

4 quatrains, 16 lines (abba)

Prompt: image of a bookstore/library.

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