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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #982524
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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On a practical note, in answer to your questions:

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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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 Kåre *Leaf5* Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
~ Elizabeth Bishop,
The Fish
March 31, 2020 at 11:41pm
March 31, 2020 at 11:41pm
#979857
Unnamed Boy in Memento Park

The young boy stood there among the others,
Lenin on the left, Red Star on the right,
not quite forgotten, not quite lamented,
just put away.

He remembered the day
when his creator released him
from where he was hiding deep in the stone

and the years of standing silently proud
as wreaths garnished his feet and garlands
of flowers filled untiring arms.

He missed their sweet fragrance
and the shouts of glee from those thousands,
who marching, saluted his gay array.

Then one night they carried him away,
not to bury him as some great hero,
not to spit upon him in disgust,
just to place him here among those who were greater,
to gather moss or rust.

He lets cold rain cleanse his face of dark thoughts
as he sees the old lady with the umbrella,
she who still searches for something lost.
Will she remember and whisper his name.

Kare Enga [177.13] (31.mars.2020)

Note: Memento park is outside BudaPest. It is the resting place for statues that are no longer politically correct.

March 29, 2020 at 10:44pm
March 29, 2020 at 10:44pm
#979649
Explaining 1969

And that’s the way we did it back then,
the way we did it way back when
when boys were boys
and men were men
and wars would choose the victors.

Our mothers would weep and girls would cry
all that weeping, all those sighs
as some would return
and some would die
and wars would choose the victors.

Yes, war would sort the grain from the chaff
ground the grain and burn the chaff.
Yet still you ask me,
"how can you laugh?"
But that’s the way we did it back then.

© Kåre Enga [177.10] (29.mars.2020)

Note to self: aaxax rhyme, bluesy.
104,004
March 24, 2020 at 5:08pm
March 24, 2020 at 5:08pm
#979067

Silly, but it's something that can be worked on, improved or discarded later. It's based on repetition of line and rhythm. The title can be changed.

Nineteen crows

Nineteen crows in nineteen trees
calmly eating burgers.
Nineteen crows in nineteen trees:
each one cawing, murder!

Nineteen hikers hear them call
under trees they gather.
Nineteen hikers under trees
share their chips and laughter.

Nineteen crows look down on them,
nineteen heads keep nodding,
choosing one to swoop on down,
tell them: hush your natter.

Nineteen hikers go their way.
Nineteen crows will watch them.
Nineteen hikers sing their songs
till the mountains crush them.

Nineteen crows in nineteen trees
all exclaim, "so gruesome!"
Fattened crows in nineteen trees
roost in twilight's bosom.

K. E. [177.7] (24.mars.2020)

103.970
March 22, 2020 at 12:41pm
March 22, 2020 at 12:41pm
#978824
Nineteen crows caw:
"It's covid
not corvid."
Watching us die ...
what do they know?

K.E. (22.03.2020) [177.3]

Silly but it could become something when it grows up. If not I could give it a title ... perhaps "On the wash line".

103.960
March 13, 2020 at 6:06pm
March 13, 2020 at 6:06pm
#978028
Eight layers

         for Rosemary Sinniger

Eight layers await her, one for each decade,
topped by one candle for this gift of life
that never has wavered faced with tribulations.
She basks in its glow before coming night.

In this twilight the sweetness of evening
lingers between layers, this passage of time.
No one knows when life will cast its last light;
instead, inhale its fragrance of aged wine.

Paradigms shift from what remains to be done
to fond memories of what's been accomplished,
what struggles well-fought, vanquished, overcome.

Cakes await for their candles to be snuffed.
Savor them as you weep at their passing,
with each morsel know their beauty was enough.

Kåre Enga (13.march.2020)

It wanted to be a sonnet: xaxa, xbxb, cxc, dxd

Original:

Eight layers

         for Rosemary Sinniger

Eight layers await her, one for each decade,
topped by one candle for the gift of life
that never wavered faced with tribulations.
She basks in its glow before coming night.

In this twilight the sweetness of evening
lingers between layers, this passage of time.
No one knows when life will cast its last light;
instead, inhale the fragrance of aged wine.

Paradigms shift from what remains to be done
to fond memories of what's been accomplished,
what struggles well-fought, vanquished, overcome.

Cakes await for their candles to be snuffed.
Savor them as you weep at their passing,
with each morsel know that this life was enough.

Kåre Enga (13.march.2020)

It wanted to be a sonnet: xaxa, xbxb, cxc, dxd
March 6, 2020 at 4:07pm
March 6, 2020 at 4:07pm
#977342
"No touching me, no touching you"

This pandemic panic.
Touching me, touching you.

This insane influenza
reaching out, touching you.

Wash your hands,
but do not touch me.

Hands, touching hands,
spread the flu

to me
and then to you.

Want me to make you ill?
Hold me tight.

Kiss me one last time!
Death comes tonight.

Until this passes,
blow me kisses from afar.

No hands touching hands,
I miss you.

No reaching out,
I miss you.

no touching me,
no touching you.

© Kåre Enga (6.mars.2020)


My quick response after listening to Neil Diamond sing "Sweet Caroline" (1971).

The song included these words:

Hands, touching hands
Reaching out, touching me, touching you

Yes, great song, known by millions, but not exactly good advice at the moment.




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