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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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Taken in the Spring of 2004, the fountain is framed by redbud. Emporia, Kansas
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 Kåre *Leaf5* Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
~ Elizabeth Bishop,
The Fish
August 16, 2020 at 7:39pm
August 16, 2020 at 7:39pm
#990979
In the year 2010

We gazed into crystal balls;
dazzled by what was shown in limpid pools,
why didn't we see our fall?

24σ: 7/10/7 a(a)a (a) = near rhyme

© Kåre Enga [177.190b] (16.avgust.2020)

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Note: I confused limpid (bright, clear) with limp (in the sense 'worn-out') and wrote the following in a flash before I realized my misuse of limpid and put limping instead. I wrote the above in response to this so I leave it here to amuse myself:

Chores

Mopping these floors with ragged cheer,
limping through August's dusty heat,
as worn out as this endless year.

© Kåre Enga [177.190a] (16.avgust.2020)

24σ: 8/8/8 axa
August 16, 2020 at 5:56pm
August 16, 2020 at 5:56pm
#990967
Sunset of 2020

         in mourning for Minneapolis, Kenosha, Portland...

A

You say protesters that cross this line must be shot.
I pray as I sit silent with my trembling friends.

B

Fearful, you shoot to kill anything that moves.
Hungry, we loot dumpsters for aluminum cans.

C

Don Juan Tyrant spreads hatred slick as anal jelly.
At dawn our sons make sandwiches for unfed children.

D

By morning: you lament broken glass and spray paint.
In mourning: I sweep up pieces of shattered dreams.

E

All crime must be dealt with by death you scream.
My time here on Earth is best spent healing.

F

Is it us-versus-them, as clear as black and white?
I fuss over which shade of grey suits your casket.

© Kåre Enga [177.189.a-f] (31.avgust.2020)

Note: Persian languages are verb final which gives a sense of rhyme. I use words that rhyme near the begininng of these couplets. 9/13 syllables but how many metrical feet? Perhaps 4 or 5. In English that's 4 or 5 stressed syllables. There is also a sense of the suppressed or oppressed speaking to someone in power.

Tapa, Landay or Misr'a is folk poetry, a Pashto couplet. Landay means "short" in Pashto. The Tapa or Landay is mostly found in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is called Tapa in the more eastern Pashto dialects.

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