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 Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation. |
   L'aura del campo 'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos' ♣ Federico García Lorca ♣  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. PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS! I L  V COMMENTS!On a practical note, in answer to your questions: IN MEMORIUM VerySara  passed away November 12, 2005 Please visit her port to read her poems and her writings. More suggested links:  These pictures rotate.   Kåre  Enga~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. ~ Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish |
| Entered as an item for a contest but no reviews after one year. ** Image ID #1994264 Unavailable ** Silenced Speak with bloody tears when lips, now sealed, cannot part. Once you were shy, hiding behind skirts, silent in the corner, trembling in the closet, safe until you spoke. Then you were hushed. And now you try to speak, liquid leaking from blood-shot eyes, writing across a blank face in a script best understood by sightless scribes. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.247b] (14.oktober.2021) 14 lines for October '21
Key words: #sealed lips, #zippered lips, #blood, #bloodshot eyes, #ichor, #sadness, #tragedy, #silenced , #silent |
| Made into an item and submitted to a contest but never got reviewed in almost a year. ** Image ID #1983250 Unavailable ** For you were ancient before you were born Enter the dreams of the waiting crone. Learn her wisdom with each wheezing moan. As woods clothe you against winds that bite, Darkness becomes refuge from fiery light. In her embrace let youthful dreams swim. In her depths let outside worlds dim. Forget whatever gnaws, chews or ails. Cast childhood aside along winding trails. Let go. Do not be bewildered, For you were ancient before you were born. See life renewing itself through the night. Everything will now seem familiar. Seek guidance from the watchful crescent 'fore morn. Reach home by following your own inner light. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.240] (7.oktober.2021) 14 lines. A sonnet (without perfect rhythm) somewhat like: aabbccddefgefg Persepolis Sonnet as in
or aabbccddefgefg (South African quilt) Originally aabbccddeefgfg as in "Life" by John Clare (1793-1864). For
Keys words: #crone, #witch, #moon, #crescent moon, #rebirth, #sonnet, #persepolis sonnet, #aabbccddefgefg, #Darleen, #pagan, #nature, #guidance |
| What I posted on the Newsfeed (as GC) not to offend the easily offended: I penned a 'pregunta' in response to Rhymer Reisen's red wasp, combining Express-it-in-Eight's prompt 'aflame', Beholden and Bianca's challenge for "The Writer's Cramp"  . I won't enter it as I'm bitem-bound ... and lazy. A question, an answer. The pregunta (that's Spanish for 'question', 'pergunta' in Portuguese) is essential a form of a series of Q&A couplets. For me to make it poetic I would use rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition... something. Rhymer's Red-bum Rising Does any old wasp set your ass aflame? Only when it's red and bears your name. So, it's okay to call you what I choose? Try it, punk, you've only one life to lose. Oh, touchy now like some wimpy snowflake! More like a blustery blizzard scrubbing your face. So about that pimple on your ass... Pop it quickly or kiss it fast. © Copyright 2022 Kåre Enga [179.74a] (27.august.2022) 8 lines; near rhyme aa,bb,cc,dd; 10/9 10/10 9/11 9/8 Earlier versions, musings: A question, an answer. The pregunta (that's Spanish for 'question', 'pergunta' in Portuguese) is essential a form of a series of couplets. For me to make it poetic I would use rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, repetition. Rhymer's Redrum Rising Does any old wasp set your ass aflame? Only when it's red and bears your name. So, it's okay to call you what I choose? Try it, punk, you've only one life to lose. Oh, touchy now like a wimpy snowflake! Like a blustery blizzard scrubbing your face. So about that pimple on your ass... Pop it quickly or kiss it fast. [74a] 10/9 10/10 9/10 9/8 Single son What did you mumble when your mother died? I mourned the woman who never knew me. And were you appalled when your father passed? Far better to go fast than linger. Now that you're an orphan how do you feel? Frankly, a weight has lifted for real. How can you be so brutally blunt? Bare was my back without brother. [74b] 10/10-mn 10/9-fp 10/9-fr 9/8-bw All these alliterations are also closely related linguistically. Another approach would be alternating tone/accent/stress like Tang Dynasty poetry did with tone patterns. I'll need to work on a better example. Untitled [73] How can you manage this death without me? You never were there when I was alive! 10 x..x..x.x. 10 .x..x.x..x But now you're set free like a butterfly. More like a puppy wounded and limping. 10 .x..x..x.. 10 x..x.x..x. [73c] © Copyright 2022 Kåre Enga [179.74] (26.august.2022) |
| “Revenge is a dish best served cold” Melania smiled sweetly to Don as she flipped her off-switch to on. I'll gladly take off this blue dress if you call Hillary now and confess. © Copyright 2022 Kåre Enga [179.73] (26.august.2022) In response to the prompt at "The Writer's Cramp" for August 27: "Clerihew" Alternative 2nd part: I'll gladly confess to the deed / I'll gladly respond to your needs if you call Jill and Joe and concede. |
Look out for rainbows!   Happening now. Let the show begin Cloud-crowds to the west. Folks scatter when drops go splat! August's thunderfest. [179.72c] A Brazilian hiaku maybe? " Haiku, Brazilian" Check out "The Writer's Cramp" then write one for Bianca and enter!Kindergarten fail They try to teach me. I'm not good at tying knots. They cannot reach me. [179.72a] Uncouth Bring me fish-n-chips. I pinch like a Glasgow grinch, but I never tip. [179.73b] © Copyright 2022 Kåre Enga [179.72] (25.august.2022) |
| LET'S TALK PROCESS! As my writer-friends know I'm scatter-brained and easily distracted... much like a cat.  So, it's normal for me to channel my inner Feline and vomit all over the page.  Then... someone (usually me) has to clean up the mess. Sometimes there're diamonds hidden among the hairballs.  For "The Writer's Cramp" Bianca, bless her pea-pickin' heart, wants us to write ONE doublet by noon tomorrow.  Well, never one to follow directions, I gagged up a bunch of... seven of them. I've cleaned them up some but left the originals as popnotes to amuse the curious (or bored).Ah... since dialects divide us (they needn't, but...), some observations: choc'late is two syllables [a] choc-o-late like e-ve-ry would be three; 'all y'all' and 'ya' are American, mostly Southern, slang [b]; Goddess/God? a matter of linguistics and/or belief [b]; two-fer-one poems [b,c] twinsies, brothers from another mother; 'delicious' [d] is a double entendre as Delicious is a well-known apple where I grew up; 'gimme' [e] is slang for 'give me'; [f] is admittedly an aliterative hisssss and 'last night' can mean yesterday or 'YOUR last night' as sometimes I like the humor of ambiguity; 'vittles' = chow, grub, food, y'know? [g]. So these are the 7. If you have time, please quickly read and tell me which you liked the most (or disliked the least): No calories, they said At lunch, salted chocolate cookies beckon. At home, "I reckon I could lose some weight." original notes for 70a [70a] Goddess visits Texas I created all y'all out of love — Zap! Unfortunately, ya didn't listen. [70b] Zapped Our Lord created us-all lovingly; unfortunately, we can't get along. [70c] original notes 70b&c Apple of my eye Were you always delicious? Me the worm that dearly wanted to make you my home? [70d] original notes for 70d San Diego would be hell Just gimme the smell of lightning, the clap of thunder, rain washing away ennui. [70e] original notes for 70e Last Night Slithering past the sentry at sunset, Sally seeks the heat of your warm embrace. [70f] original notes for 70f Priorities On the run to fetch some bread-n-vittles, slow down to pet the whining puppy's head. [70g] original notes for 70g Bianca's note and example ▼ WHICH ONE(S) DO YOU LIKE THE BEST? What is your process? |
| I don't need: fever, chills, headaches, and your tsk-tsk-tsk to know I'm truly sick. [68a] Words: 1,2,3,4,1. Syllables: 2,3,5,5,1 (tsk-tsk-tsk can also be said as a triplet). Metrical/musical: ?. Political Show Conspiracies Couldn't they imagine life without drama? We demand truth — or consequences. [68b] Words: 1,2,3,4,1. Syllables: 2,4,5,5,3 (emdash adds a beat). Metrical/musical: ?. Saturday night at the casino Grapes of Wrath, bright rainbow bruises, all fights fade to purple. [68c] Lotus of Battambang Nine doorways beckon. Enter and leave all doubts and pain behind. [68d] Atheist condemned This! This way leads to heaven; why do you choose hell? [68e] An atheist responds I'd rather die as I live: Lovingly embracing all — especially you. [68i] Ringing When in doubt, call an expert. My line be always busy. [68f] Squeeze One. Two halves. Our hearts beat fragrant, healthy, juicy, vibrant orange. [68g] January Your head swivels east and west never answering, committing, explaining, Janus. [68h] Words: 1,2,3,4,1. Syllables: . Metrical/musical: ?. For "The Writer's Cramp" huser:lansinger.land (Bianca): Thanks to Bibliotheek Oostland (Library Oostland) in Lansingerland, who pointed me to this form. "Elfje", Elevenie is a poetry form which is used to help people get aquainted with writing poetry in forms. It consists out of eleven words, divided over five lines. 1st line: one word 2nd line: two words 3rd line: three words 4th line: four words 5th line: one word. Line 1 to 4 may form a long sentence, and line 5 summarizes the content of line 1 - 4 in just one word. Somtimes additional requirements can be given, (like: Line 1, object, line 2 colour etc) but it is not mandatory. |
| Serpents all The Snake River wallows, lonesome, in the deep and narrow gorge it carved, following the focused rush of raindrops ocean bound; but you, O Colombia, you who braved the floods that scoured the plains as mountain ice-dams burst with melting lust, must watch us crouch upon your sinuous banks in four-armed hugs: curling, coiling, trussed. © Copyright 2022 Kåre Enga [179.66] (20.august.2022) Notes: adjective: sinuous having many curves and turns. "the river follows a sinuous trail through the forest" Lignende: winding windy serpentine curving twisting meandering snaking snaky zigzag zigzagging turning bending curling coiling undulating tortuous sinuate ogee anfractuous flexuous meandrous serpentiform Motsatt betydning: straight lithe and supple. "the sinuous grace of a cat" Lignende: lithe supple agile graceful loose-limbed limber lissom willowy slinky lithesome Motsatt betydning: clumsy |
| In progress to fashion into a poem. When I left yesterday for tomorrow I stopped here along the way. And this is how the dawn/beginning, the noon/zenith, the sunset/fading (that) now defines-me/fashioned-my-clay. Red sketch stretching across the sky/ending-of-the-day the sky-river's ripple headed elsewhere, a nowhere I've never visited but one that beckons me to fly/soar today. As the untraveled/untrammeled path devoid of footsteps begs to guide me. I put one thought before the other and pray. This moment is mine and mine alone, along the lonely bay they say holds my heart gently as time/breath and seconds sway/fade-away. I will enter tomorrow with gladness knowing that it too will become a precious/golden/gold-pressed memory of yesterday. © Copyright 2022 Kåre Enga [179.64] (19.august.2022) |
| Full moon falling The rain, the fog, the foto they took before the moon crashed. Life now snuffed or glass-embedded, mangled, the muffled cries that faded before light returned to fossils found strewn among the frosted memories of long-forgotten folks that once drove headlong, unforgiving, through fog and mist, much like us, following the moans and haunting howls undaunted. © Copyright 2022 Kåre Enga [179.63] (18.august.2022) For August '22: "Invalid Item" |
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