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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 |
| Sunset of 2020 in mourning for Minneapolis, Kenosha, Portland... A You say protesters that cross this line must be shot. I pray as I sit silent with my trembling friends. B Fearful, you shoot to kill anything that moves. Hungry, we loot dumpsters for aluminum cans. C Don Juan Tyrant spreads hatred slick as anal jelly. At dawn our sons make sandwiches for unfed children. D By morning: you lament broken glass and spray paint. In mourning: I sweep up pieces of shattered dreams. E All crime must be dealt with by death you scream. My time here on Earth is best spent healing. F Is it us-versus-them, as clear as black and white? I fuss over which shade of grey suits your casket. © Kåre Enga [177.189.a-f] (31.avgust.2020) Note: Persian languages are verb final which gives a sense of rhyme. I use words that rhyme near the begininng of these couplets. 9/13 syllables but how many metrical feet? Perhaps 4 or 5. In English that's 4 or 5 stressed syllables. There is also a sense of the suppressed or oppressed speaking to someone in power. Tapa, Landay or Misr'a is folk poetry, a Pashto couplet. Landay means "short" in Pashto. The Tapa or Landay is mostly found in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It is called Tapa in the more eastern Pashto dialects. For:
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| Quepos in June Families gather for ice cream or shave ice before evening's chill. Sun sets over the placid promenade as laughter fills the air. The sky now mills with chatter. Lo, the grackles have come home to roost. © Kåre Enga [177.186] (14.avgust.2020) (3 lines: 16/16/16) The elements of the Triveni are: 1. a poem in 3 lines made up of a complete couplet (a ghazal sher, a two line poem in itself.) followed by a single line. {in 2 written in lines of equal length. 3. end words are unrhymed. However, in a ghazal sher the main rhyme is found somewhere near the end of L1 and is repeated somewhere in the last half of L2. 4. If the Triveni is written in a series, each Triveni should be rlated but be able to stand alone. When written in a series, the end word of L2 of the sher is repeated in refrain, as the end word of L2 in subsequent Trivenis. 5. written with L3 a different perspective of the same theme of L1 & L2. For:
Note to self: photo of zanates at Quepos beach is around June 3, 2018. Can find the photo.  |
| de Sade lives! Smearing gothic shit on Life's prison-walls, breaking shackles of rhythm and rhyme, we embrace darkness. © Kåre Enga [177.184] (13.avgust.2020) 24: 5/5/4/5/5 gothic Note: imagery is based on the movie Quills (2000) which is fictionalized, to say it nicely, according to historians. For
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| From the grave, a voice Your sealed book, your empty chants. What fate now wracks the silence of your past, revealed by the unrest of those unloved whose offspring are MY children who once unheard have finally conquered those reeking alleys of graffiti in these ruins of your dirty cities on what was once my land. I waste no tears for what you've lost, for what returns to me at last. © Kåre Enga [177.237] (28.september.2020) 10 lines free verse with some rhythm, rhyme and repetition. For:
Prompt words (8): unheard sealed chants fate graffiti cities silence unrest. |
| MLK coming down the tracks 1963 freight train— whistle of hope— jump roped over the color bar— arrested— placed in a squad car— loadstar— © Kåre Enga [177.182] (11.avgust.2020) For:
Prompt: loadstar |
| At Tussaud's We stood stoic like Julius Caesar carved from wax dressed in bluish grey. Just call us Cesious. © Kåre Enga [177.179] (9.avgust.2020) 24 syllable free verse. Cesious: (sē′zē·əs) adjective [I pronounce as 3 syllables] Pale greenish-blue: also spelled caesious. [L caesius bluish-gray] Also waxy, having a waxy bluish-grey coating. For:
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| Summer's storm Summer stands there frozen against the scudding clouds the storm crashing through her as tall waves pound the shore she resists temptation to go inside and thaw this her power—to withstand it all—a beacon of hope to the stranded weary of winter's pall; she stands fast before the fury like a lighthouse dug down to life's bedrock, sand sifting over toes, a lone seagull circles her thoughts swirling to gusts. There's nowhere like Gitchigami: spring, summer, winter, fall. © Kåre Enga [177.177] (8.8.2020) (9 alexandrine lines - 12 syllables) prompts: lighthouse, hope, seagull, waves, sand, power, crashing, clouds Note: Gitchigami "great sea" is the Ojibwe name for the lake the French called le lac supérieur known in English as Lake Superior. "Superior" would work instead of Gitchigami but I'm torn as to which to use. For:
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| Age does not become you your voice becoming mime faint wind that never chimes your face ... a paradigm that shifts, then's lost to time © Kåre Enga [177.178] (7.avgust.2020) (4 lines: 6/6/6/6, aaaa) prompt: paradigm For:
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| Dinner conversation Caviar? Caveat? Mar-a-Lago's where it's at. Caveat? Caviar? Frankly, we don't care. © Kåre Enga [177.174] (4.avgust.2020) A couplet (13/11 aa/bb) Caveat: noun: 1. (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing. 2. a warning against certain acts For:
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| What is this mother brought her a slice of who knows what pushed to the left pushed to the right swirled around the center spilled on the table slopped on the ground aunts and uncles cousins galore stuffed their faces as if they were starved what is this? goat on a stick? some sick joke? they laughed when she asked so she went back for more pretended to eat it pushed to the left pushed to the right slowly clearing the plate fed to the dog © Kåre Enga [177.202] (29.avgust.2020) 22 lines free verse August 2020 COOKOUT taboo words: food, barbecue, grill, gathering, beer or any derivatives of these words. For:
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