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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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go. ~ Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish |
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Response to a prayer May we find peace by coming together and bless raindrops and sunshine regardless of weather and know we are valued as we come from the One who gives us love's tools to recognize we're all one. And may we be glad to be alive at this hour to live in a country which labors with power as we overcome differences deserving of praise and receive the Lord's Mercy from our birth to our grave. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.85] (May, 2021) Notes: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá came to America in 1912. He visited Chicago for the dedication of the cornerstone of the Bahá’í Temple, May 1st, 1912. Prayer for America O Thou kind Lord! This gathering is turning to Thee. These hearts are radiant with Thy love. These minds and spirits are exhilarated by the message of Thy glad-tidings. O God! Let this American democracy become glorious in spiritual degrees even as it has aspired to material degrees, and render this just government victorious. Confirm this revered nation to upraise the standard of the oneness of humanity, to promulgate the Most Great Peace, to become thereby most glorious and praiseworthy among all the nations of the world. O God! This American nation is worthy of Thy favors and is deserving of Thy mercy. Make it precious and near to Thee through Thy bounty and bestowal. — ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Also note: May is the end of Ridvan (May 1-2), the anniversary of the Declaration of the Bab (May 22-23), the commemoration of the Ascension of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (May 28-29). |
Between cardboard covers It sits there staring, beckoning me to open it, get lost in ink and images as if as if I had spare time to dream. Once I did, before the storm, before the lightning struck. Would it help with searing pain? It seeks a sucking in, a letting go of someone else's loss, their tears their tears to cleanse my thoughts. Someone else's plaintive pleas now washed by rain, their loss their loss — my gain. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.64] (1.mai.2021) 20 lines of free verse For
'LOST IN A BOOK' taboo words: story, book, page, world, character. |
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He jacked off the beanstalk climbing ever so slowly to not arouse suspicion he wanted the creme de la creme not a beating. The hairy stem had no leaves he hugged it like a lumberjack finding handholds with every bulging artery, his lips moving like a lamprey, sucking, gripping to avoid the fall from grace. He climbed and climbed beyond the ectasy of clouds and sky, set beneath the fountain of youth he had released. . |
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Dear Mrs Percy Shelley, Since my last letter, I have polished my language skills and can now babble in a dozen languages including German, Italian and ancient Egyptian. I hope you'll find one of them suitable to your endeavor. I have also read that your friend Dr. Frankincense is unwrapping a mummy. I can help him too. The Museo Egizio in Torino had an on-line course and I was their top student, specializing in cats and crocodiles. I also understand papyri after the class, "The origins of toilet paper". I apologize in advance that we will be unable to meet in-person on Tuesday the 8th. I have a previous appointment with my parole officer that morning and I'm certain I won't be done cleaning up the blood before that evening. The rest of the week looks free. As I told my sister, "if you let me out of the basement I promise to not be good." Looking forward to meeting you again, X Libris cc: Odessa Molinari © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.88] (13.mai.2021) |
What month am I? This month begins as winter fools us. "Make up your mind." We fuss. Crocuses hide beneath white snow, the sun behind black crows. We take a nap until those days when warm winds bring soft rains and color fills our daily dreams as grassy lawns turn green. Clear skies burst out in brilliant blue and yellow fills our view as dandelions and daffodils cover cool fields and hills. The apricots bloom pink and white. If frosty nights don't bite, we'll harvest their fruits come August before the autumn's dust. We salute the Earth for all she gives that helps all wildlife live. We gather her blooming tulips, then plant new tulip trees. I follow March. What month am I? I bring wet cloudy skies, dance in puddles that welcome May, pick hyacinth bouquets. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.63] (30.april.2021) 24 lines. 8/6 ballad; aabb rhyme (more or less). For:
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** Image ID #2247530 Unavailable ** Call us Boss We wear our human costumes daily, but this is who we are. Whether happy faced or gruesome, our ruler wears a crown. We speak in gruff or dulcet tones, no two of us alike, at midnight take our costumes off so we can have some fun. We're all upstanding citizens and thoughtful to a fault. We hang signs on the boardroom door: "Private; members only", then gnash our teeth and lick our gums, begin to laugh, cavort, and joke away until the dawn while stripping flesh from bones. Call us fools — but every Monday we're back to playing tricks. We're the bosses you love to hate. Oh, if you only knew. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.61] (30.april.2021) 20 lines unrhymed 8/6 ballad form. For:
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Eeyore's birthday glee "I guess we'll be fine, as long as the honey doesn't get watered down. I'll sit on this checkered cloth under an umbrella hoping my friends will let me go home. They won't, of course. So, I'll just get wet holding the corner down." a grey donkey — a soggy picnic lunch set for four. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.56] 5 long lines plus a hokku. Based on 'The Four Seasons of Winnie the Pooh" that hangs over my door. For
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Old Mother told us You bullied your way south, tearing through the pines and plains of Saskatchewan, a hungry polar bear on the hunt. Then you found a gap in the earth's stony teeth and took a turn west to terrorize us. Old Mother warned long ago: take cover when the east wind blows down the canyon; it brings the death-breath of the north. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.55] (23.april.2021) 8 irregular lines, free verse, 75 syllables. For
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Cymbeline Why read Shakespeare, we ask. So many other simple straight-forward stories. Why did we choose this one. What were we thinking. We still don't know. I was raised in a fog of snow mist and ice, a gathering of wisps that could not be possessed. I chased rainbows that came out on soft days, locking the hurt in a closet Then sunlight banished the gloom as it had done before and will do again. I would have healed if it weren't for the sunburn of drama coming in the front door, stirring up a tempest exiting to the lot where the hopeless parked with a bottle to drown their depression till sundown quenched their mania. So much confusion. So many stories and characters and utter nonsense. The lies, the lies, the lies. They died one-by-one in the cleansing. Who was king-of-hill, who was the queen-of-evil — no one knew for sure. The quicksand sucked at us all and we got lost in the quagmire. I moved to the desert, hid, snug between mountains. Sighed in relief as I watched the sun set in silence. I prayed for misty days and rainbows. I had left the drama behind. I never bother to read Shakespeare. © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.54] (23.april.2021) Prompt: a Shakesperian play. I chose "Cymbeline", a later work that's very entangled with typical tantrums, evil and revenge. I describe my own experiences and views based on surviving homelessness. For:
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Old saints say... I never asked, "When will I die." I've often wondered, "How shall will I live." I never questioned, "Why do I cry." I often offered, "What can I give." © Copyright 2021 Kåre Enga [178.53] (21.april.2021) For
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