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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #982524

Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.

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L'aura del campo


'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos'
♣ Federico García Lorca ♣


Higgins Street Bridge, April 25th  2009, Missoula, Montana


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.

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passed away November 12, 2005

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 Kåre *Leaf5* Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
~ Elizabeth Bishop,
The Fish
April 30, 2025 at 11:26pm
April 30, 2025 at 11:26pm
#1088443
Weightless

The weightlessness of us
as things around begin to shift

as my eyes looked elsewhere
and my thoughts began to drift.

What was once a promise
unraveled with the lies
I'm as much at fault as you,
more so in your eyes.

What at first seemed weightless
began to take on weight
as the burdens of two lives
added and multiplied.

I want to go back when
thoughts had wings of feathers,
when once we soared together
weightless through the sky.

© Kåre Enga (30.april.2025) [182.46]

16 lines

The weightlessness of us as things around begin to shift is a line from

April 30, 2025 at 11:16pm
April 30, 2025 at 11:16pm
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No faggots

Children laugh and poke fun at me,
do they think that I am deaf?
No faggots are allowed, they say,
we beat them till they're dead.

And my cheeks are burning,
blushing as I hide.
I'm not welcome in this town.
Am I welcome in this life?

I can be whatever I want
as long as they agree,
long as I'm not too this or that
they'll smile and nod at me.

As long as I'm not a faggot,
long as they can't see.

But my cheeks are burning,
blushing as I hide.
I'm not welcome in this town.
Am I welcome in your life?

And I want to be your friend.
Am I welcome in this life?

© Kåre Enga [182.45] (30.april.2025)

20 lines

Based on No Gringo.

April 30, 2025 at 9:32pm
April 30, 2025 at 9:32pm
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Pink portulaca

Red geraniums are getting old;
the green onions wilt.
The bird-of-paradise may never bloom;
Yet, spring has sprung outside the window.

Today one pink portulaca
brightens up the view.
If I were a flower in your garden
I would blossom as well.

Unless I were a jade tree,
jealous of the others,
only blooming after decades,
long past our prime.

I stop to smell blue iris,
admire blue columbine,
then pluck two dandelions
to brighten up the hall.

Spring has sprung outside the window
and here I sit aware
that this spring may be my last
and these words never read.

But here inside my windows,
pink portulaca blooms
and nasturtiums strut their finery
as April yields to May.

© Kåre Enga (30.april.2025) [182.44]

24 lines

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