Enga mellom fjella

Guy in the green shirt

Guy in the green shirt

In his long narrow face,
I embrace Modigliani,
take a series of photos,
sketch portraits, fake paintings.

His dark hair, his fair skin,
that clean slate of youth,
beaming pulp fiction.
In truth,
I don't ask his name.

This story grows old;
it's always the same:
ideas,
the way to achieve them,
accolades proffered
when talent bursts into bloom,
then bows in fruition.

Yet intuition
tells me those twigs
remain brittle and barren
to break with the dawn,
with the dispelling breeze
when those cruel wisps of dreams,
circling his visage, fade
as he gets up and leaves.

© 2008 Kåre Enga [165.227] 2008-08-27

Okay now ... there was this young guy with a long thin face at The Break. End of story.

ME:

Sushi = Wednesday.

It was so dreary this morning. Didn't wake up till noon. Snow flakes on top of Mount Lolo! Just puddles in the parking lot.

So weep for me!

Bought a copy of Poets and Writers Magazine. Seems that I'll have to go online for the Poet's Market. If I don't send off some poems soon, Thomas will disown me.

So ... blah blah blah-day.

PROMPTS:

Since August 23rd:

[216] opening a coffee house (prose, part of "Blood of the Garlic")
[217] the chasm between two people
[218] Reading a quote: "on a shelf called emotion stood a frozen figure", Sheryl Noethe
[219] a series of cliches
[220] Reading a quote: "under the attack of old hyenas", Leland Locke
[221] Four cinquains: (a: from a tv commercial, "across the white tiled tundra"; b: porcupine; c: a movie quote, "some things time cannot mend"; d: after humans are gone.
[222] Feeling the cold gusty winds in August
[223] letting go
[224] Serac, reading a news report of a landslide of ice on Mount Blanc
[225] Tolerance
[226] Hearing of snow on the top of Mount Lolo
[227] Seeing a young man with a long narrow face, reminding me of Modigliani
[228] Talking with Austin (age 10) about his bowl of ika sansei (squid salad)
[229] Seeing yellow leaflets falling from a locust tree

What prompts have you used?

Montana: 62º at 19:00.

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