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A terminal for all blogs coming in or going out. A view into my life.

Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.

Ferry boat between Solvorn and Ornes across the Lustrafjord i Sogn og Fjordane.



My new new new blog is
 
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ในสวนของเลียม Open in new Window. (13+)
In Liam's Garden, a personal journal
#2338942 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
.

I'm starting a new blog because
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L'aura del Campo Open in new Window. (13+)
Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
#982524 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
had over 1,200 entries and that was getting close to full. I don't want to trim it by deletion. I did that once, much to my dismay. Will be used more for poetry.

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Hoarfrosts from Hell Open in new Window. (GC)
Anything I'm not happy about or that I don't want in my main blog!
#997339 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
is still hidden from the public and will remain so. It's more personal and full of angst. Was used for 30DBC for May 2020 and now used for Blogville.

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Enga mellom fjella Open in new Window. (13+)
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
#1317094 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
was full... until the number of entries was increased. A mixed blog, mostly stories.

I'll be linking to
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On The Write Path Open in new Window. (13+)
ON THE WRITE PATH: travel journal for Around-the-World in 2015, 16, 18.
#2032403 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
as I need to post there about my travels.

 
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O Pinions! Open in new Window. (XGC)
May my opinions gather wind under their wings and fly, perchance to soar.
#1501776 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
is for my opinions. *Laugh*

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Nurture your Nature Open in new Window. (13+)
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
#1439094 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
was set up for nature observations and musings.

 
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Watt's Gnus Open in new Window. (18+)
On topics and today's gnus. Definitely opinionated. Set to 18+ for a reason.
#1439092 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
come out of a need to share interesting stuff I come across. When I was young I did a small newsletter named as such. (or was it column in the newsletter? Been 30 years... I think.)

 
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Flash Fiction Open in new Window. (GC)
Short 300 word, more or less, "stories" .
#2190336 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
is where I put my flash fictions. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and have enough good ones to publish. Ratings vary and some are hidden from view.

I've started an appendix (I no longer have one personally) to keep track of my Space Cadet journals for Space Blog. It's a work constantly under construction. Mind the mess.
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Space Cadet - the never ending journal Open in new Window. (18+)
Journeys of an Alien Space crew.
#2226611 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon


I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
 
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Conquest ... to keep track of contests Open in new Window. (ASR)
A place to keep track of in progress works and up-coming deadlines as well as any awards.
#2233119 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
(also very messy!) *Shock2*

 
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Blogville  Open in new Window. (XGC)
Where bloggers meet and greet to read and share. No required prompt. Alias: blogville.
#2253938 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
is for posting personal blog entries in hope that folks will comment and post their blog entries there as well. I will be commenting on all blog entries posted. It's my effort to rebuild a blogging community.

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Bibimbap 비빔밥  Open in new Window. (13+)
Left-overs piled on hot rice and mixed.
#2296648 by Kåre เลียม Enga Author IconMail Icon
an E blog focusing on food and culture. Easily digestible for the Queasy and Questioning.

January 16, 2021 at 8:24pm
January 16, 2021 at 8:24pm
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For
 
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Space Blog Open in new Window. (ASR)
Cruising WDC cyberspace and raiding ports for blog prompts!
#2223838 by Sharmelle's Expressions Author IconMail Icon


The poetic link: A Shadorma poem about my writing "Invalid Item"  Open in new Window. [] by A Guest Visitor

Mini-review: I don't think this form exists. I can find no trace of it anywhere, only nonsense in English by English speakers with no references. If it does exist the broken phrases aren't traditional Spanish. As for content? It doesn't say much and it doesn't say it well. The idea may be salvageable but the poem is not. I rate it 1.8.

Note: The 'shadorma' is a suspect form imho. I mean ... from Spain? There is no "sh" in Spanish. It would be spelled "xadorma" in Gallego-Portuguese. I can find no 'sadorma', 'jadorma' or 'zadorma' on-line either. The only example I found in Spanish was by a non-native who doesn't know syllables in Spanish. It is NOT the same as in English in spite of what on-line English language sites want you to believe. "Viejo" is 2 syllables vie-jo. 'Muy' is one: 'mwi' like 'brie' not 'moo-ey' like 'chewy'. 'Mooi' or 'mooie' is Dutch. If in fact "shadorma" goes back in time it's not a free-form verse; that's a modern notion. Forms were meant to help memorize orally. Cute forms scrawled on wood or rocks were paintings. It is listed as: 3-5-3-3-7-5. If so, then each line should be a phrase or word, not chopped up for modern convenience. And rhyme? Rhyme is not an issue in Spanish like it is in English. Rhymes are overly common and can be annoying in modern poetry; but Spanish, like French, can best be written in long lines (12 'syllable' alexandrines) making rhymes less noticeable. Spanish seems to prefer abba rhyme schemes when rhyme is used.

Anyone can make up a form and attach a name to it. This one seems to have no reason to exist. It's 26 syllables. And that's about it.

But I'll give it a try in Spanish.

Alzhéimer

"Muy viejo."
Así me llaman.
Mentiras!
Soy joven.
"Demencia" me susurran
los tíos muertos.

3: muy.vie.jo.
5: a.sí.me.lla.man.
3: men.ti.ras.
3: soy.jo.ven.
7: de.men.cia.me.su.su.rran.
5: los.tí.os.muer.tos.

Translation:

Alzheimer

"So old."
So they call me.
Lies!
I'm young.
"Dementia" my dead uncles
whisper.

KE [177.311] and [177.311t] (16.diecembre.2021)

The prompt: The author talks about inspiration. Where does your inspiration come from?

From everywhere. Not necessarily from poems though. It can be the soup I made tonight, the frozen fog fading everything to white this morn, the sunset tinting the skies a soft pink in the south-west and northeast.
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