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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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 Kåre *Leaf5* Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
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June 20, 2021 at 2:11pm
June 20, 2021 at 2:11pm
#1012224
Pineapple upside down cake

O vile excuse
for acid indigestion
dumped from tin cans
disguised by batter.

Oh, I'm battered
by bad memories
of luscious yellow cake
destroyed by pineapple.

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.147] (20.juni.2021)

I didn't realize that pineapple could be sweet and wonderful until many years later. Tin cans destroyed many foods for me growing up. Mashed mushy miserable minced pineapple was the worse. I was crushed.

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June 20, 2021 at 1:38pm
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#1012218
Serenade to me at age 10

You raised me in a world limited
to a small box of 8 stubby crayons,
a world defined by blue and red,
red and pink for girls and blue for me;
but Shelley loved dark blue velvet
and I loved Mickey's big box of wax,
drawing Percival's heraldic shield
in melon and sea green.

You dressed me in navy until I rebelled.
My color was orange but orange did not exist
for boys. I picked out clothes in brown and green.
I knew by 10 that I was different,
that no teacher could teach me how
to hold a pencil or tie my shoe laces.
I yearned for my own box of crayons.

Now I can afford the biggest box
and define myself any way I choose.

I look out at the same old Sun that set
a thousand yesterdays, marvel at the hues,
how burnt orange and bittersweet now streak
across a sea of midnight blue.

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.181] (1.juli.2021)

21 lines

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June 20, 2021 at 1:33pm
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#1012216
Fearless

gun to the head
or so he said
no time to be scared
as time stood still while driving
pulling into the cop shop
honking the horn
no one peered out
coulda been shot
wasn't
no time for reacting
no time for regrets
no time for fear

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.147] (21.juni.2021)

Note: based on an actual experience, a short but vivid one.
PPC#3 June 21st-27th prompt: "fearless" as the title.

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#1012212
When a moment lasts a lifetime

A moth decides to stay and dies between the window panes.
A moth decides to fly to be quickly swallowed by a swift.

I stayed.
I left.

Zig zag zig zag zig...

And here I sadly rest.
Too old to care at best.

You scream,

Why can't you decide!

as if
as if

I have a choice
when I must choose

to sit between the window panes
or be swallowed by a swift.

© Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.146] (2.juni.2021)

Note: I have high anxiety that peaks when I can't make a decision... like this last week... but revisiting that isn't how I write. I shake when I'm overly anxious. I writebest when I'm depressed or awed.

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Uncertainty: Think about a time in your life when you couldn’t make a decision, and write a poem based on it.
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