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   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 |
| Nine suffices for Neva Behold nine; how it hides no corners, and unlike six, doesn't sit in a box. Four seems deathly and eight... lucky for some... yet, why settle for luck? Ten is just — one too many, as if we must start again. No, as Neva might say, nine suffices. And yes, although there are seven directions, the trickiest one lies within. © Kåre Enga [177.318] (22.januar.21) 8 lines of free verse. When I started writing this I thought of Prosperous Snow celebrating  . Therefore ...  . I used to write poems for and about friends all the time. I should get back into the practice and do so again.
January 22 prompts: DIFFICULT, TEN, SETTLE |
| Bandruí She wears a plain shift in dappled sunlight a waif among the oak-grove orphans as drab as horse dung — they're all the same, yet in the breeze she shimmers and shines. Above the heights of the Cursèd City where slight daughters of royalty reign, their golden finery goes unnoticed for none is more elegant than she. © Kåre Enga [177.317] (21.januar.21) For:
Prompts: elegant, same, above. |
| Gods we do not know Dismissed, he left missives with the secretary. Now we read the papyri — wonder who he was. KE [177.316] (20.januar.2021) 24 syllables: 4 lines 2/10/7/5 For "Invalid Item"  |
| On knees if necessary Winter's Insurrection failed. The Sun returns, stronger every day, to strengthen our resolve to crawl towards Spring — on knees if necessary. We inaugurate the return to health as hope beckons, as our shadows lengthen behind us. No need to look back. No need to wallow in the frozen waste we leave behind. We seek — warmer climes and future times where empathy lines rock-strewn paths to tranquil lakes where lips lap love's shore. No matter the horrors that clutch at us. The Sun guides our way and every day frost's grief, once left behind, loses its grip and fades. © Kåre Enga [177.314] (20.januar.2021) 18 lines free verse January Quote by Walt Whitman: "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." For January, 2021:
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| Sitting on his tomb Instead of moving on he remains a ghost to all who remember the boy who was never in a hurry to grow up who died none-the-less with each waking hour as Death offered a release from the fear of living. © Kåre Enga [177.313] (18.januar.2021) 8 lines free verse. Prompt: INSTEAD and HURRY for "EXPRESS IT IN EIGHT " |
| Old Stallion Ne'er a modicum of humility, he bangs his brand like a mare — as if — the universe cares. © Kåre Enga [177.312] (17.januar.2020) 5 lines, 24 syllables (10/4/5/4/1). Prompt: modicum. Ne'er is contraction of 'never' and has one syllable. For "Invalid Item" |
| Veiled your voice your eyes the only sorts of sense a ghost can savor oh, to know the haptic hug of life © Kåre Enga [177.309] (14.januar.2021) 7 lines free verse of 24 syllables. For: "Invalid Item" Prompt: haptic: relating to the sense of touch. 104.848 |
| Covid cuffs-and-collars covid-cuffs and covid-collars how we ache inside our bubbles how we break them masked men — unmasked stalk alone down empty sidewalks hoping no one cuts across their lonely path © Kåre Enga [177.308] (14.januar.2021) 8 lines free verse to prompt "breaking bubble" from "EXPRESS IT IN EIGHT " , entered into "Shadows and Light Poetry Contest" . Note: Covid-cuff: mask dangling from the wrist. Covid-collar: mask hanging around the neck. 104.842 |
| Blind Beth arranges her bedroom like luxe garden parties, both a mimesis of rules she'll never see. KE [177.307] (12.januar.2021) 4 lines 7/6/7/4, could be a 13/11 couplet. For "Invalid Item" |
| Arsonists Soon we'll travel to Cairo She's such a pyro! I'm a mere tyro! We're an inflammable match. © Kåre Enga [277.306] (10.januar.2021) For "Invalid Item" 4 lines 7/5/5/7. rhyme: aaax 'tyro' as in novice |
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I just went with the flow. Could use a minor edit but I'm happy that you like it.
