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Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
*Delight*          *Bigsmile*          *Yawn*

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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Before the strom, Bushton's water tower.
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 Kåre *Leaf5* Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
~ Elizabeth Bishop,
The Fish
January 8, 2020 at 9:57pm
January 8, 2020 at 9:57pm
#972997

In a field of sunflowers

He stares speechless,
oblivious to all,
overcome by
your bounteous beauty,
your righteous weeds.

© Kåre Enga (8.january.2020)

4/6/4/6/4/ No rhythm, no rhyme, no alliteration. The three long words share a common unstressed last syllable, more an echo than a rhyme. Also: a juxtaposition of two people: the admirer and the admired. The title gives a humble, perhaps MidWestern.

Note:
weeds: a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning

righteous:

1. (of a person or conduct) morally right or justifiable; virtuous.
"feelings of righteous indignation about pay and conditions"

2. INFORMAL•US very good; excellent.
"righteous bread pudding"

103.556
January 7, 2020 at 5:05pm
January 7, 2020 at 5:05pm
#972894
Once upon a time in Oxford (Only Once)

He chewed tobacky,
aimed for the spittoon,
and missed.

She glared at him,
summoned
Her Majesty's Dragoon.

© Kåre Enga (7.january.2020)

24 syllables in two stanzas 12/12 (this happened; that followed). No real rhythm, meter, form. One rhyme: spittoon/dragoon.

dra·goon: 1. noun: a member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army.
2. verb: coerce (someone) into doing something. "she had been dragooned into helping with the housework"

January 5, 2020 at 9:12pm
January 5, 2020 at 9:12pm
#972753
Long after the fight

Welter?
              I was.


My face flowed
                             when mashed,
blood          spilt
                     upon
   blue mats,


         spent
tulip
          that          dared
                   not          blush
  again.


© Kåre Enga (5.january.2020)

24 syllables strung out in an odd pattern reflecting the wobble of a defeated welterweight (definition #3). Some alliteration: sp, bl.

Welter: 1. verb (literary): move in a turbulent fashion. "the streams foam and welter"; 2. noun: a large number of items in no order; a confused mass. "there's such a welter of conflicting rules"; 3. noun: short for welterweight (140 to 147 pounds or 63.5–67 kg).

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January 4, 2020 at 5:14pm
January 4, 2020 at 5:14pm
#972661
Red poppies blow

I pen a poem
predicting war
while poor children
pocket pastries.
Am I prescient.
Am I wrong.

© Kåre Enga (3.january.2020)

5/4/4/4/4/3 = 24 syllable

Free verse not dependent on rhyme or rhythm. Kept together by alliteration. The line breaks can be a pause while reading out-loud.

24 syllable

Prompt is prescient: having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

Title from:

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard among the guns below."

John McCrae
January 3, 2020 at 6:33pm
January 3, 2020 at 6:33pm
#972580
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This was our home:
the tipsy balcony, three flights of stairs,
each brick holding a memory
of where we fell or where we hid.

Go there! Bring one home,
so I can hold it in my hands
take what life force still remains,
tuck it into my heart.

© Kåre Enga (3.january.2020)

8 lines free verse.

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January 3, 2020 at 5:58pm
January 3, 2020 at 5:58pm
#972578
Yrt Nallag

Yrt Nallag!
We walk it backwards
to a time when knights wore armor,
when their gallantry
was a 'thing'.

3/5/8/5/3
no rhyme nor rhythm.

103.533
January 2, 2020 at 9:56pm
January 2, 2020 at 9:56pm
#972517
Lick me,
full lips and tongue.
I'm not a warty toad.
Like a sapid fig — I exist to be
consumed.

2/4/6/10/2
no intentional rhyme or rhythm.
similar to the 2/4/6/8/2 = 22 syllables of a cinquain.
prompt: sapid.
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103.527
January 1, 2020 at 6:27pm
January 1, 2020 at 6:27pm
#972408
"After the party"

Christine, Christine, Christine, Christine!
Must everything be ordered and pristine?
Christine, why do you scream?


©KåreEnga (1.january.2020)

Notes:
Syllables per line: 8/10/6
Meter:
1. -/-/-/-/
2. //---/---/ but read -/-/-/-/-/
3. -///// but could be read -/,-/-/ maintaining a pattern of -/ (unstressed/stressed) the pause after the comma makes the third line conform more closely with the first.
Rhyme: aaa
Prompt: pristine
Channeling the song "Jolene". *Laugh*

One way to read this:
chris.TINE.chris.TINE.chris.TINE.chris.TINE! *Music2*
must.EV.ry.(thing).be.OR.dered.(and).pris.TINE?
chris.TINE.——.why.DO.(you).SCREAM?

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