Enga mellom fjella

Did I lose a blog entry?

Would I remember if I did?

Clueless me:

Today is First Friday (art shows); tomorrow Day of the Dead (including evening parade). Plenty to do here. Game tomorrow afternoon as well.

Did I blog yesterday and not save it? Who knows...

Maybe...

Could've been about writing a cento like I posted at facebook:

A cento... "composed of other poet's lines..." well my poem "Once in Iceland" is that. But... the centi (patchwork poems) in my own chapbooks are composed from lines lifted from my own poems. Yes... it's not the same, but what would I call them... BENTO? like a Japanese lunch box? LOL

Anyhoo:

Cento for 'This and every November'

Clouds shake their heads. Our lives stretch out to pale thin threads.

Too bad I couldn't have been your friend. Most only knew labels they had stuck on me, what in their eyes I'd become. You always knew the taste of arsenic defined me, how to give flight to my lyrical voice.

What up-flow of wisdom will you now share from your depths of perception? How much life had been sacrificed here? Is the heart just a paper cut-out, some fleeting symbol? Tonight the moon lights the pines, casts shadows on white, sleeps in the dimples of tracks in fresh snow. And this is how the tale sometimes ends: sunset along a swift flowing stream, the lushness hurting the eyes with the brilliance of emeralds.

You bloomed within me, a deep red spot as bright as dawn. You only wanted to stay warm and dry. My eyes dim this grey day, but yours reddened with a cold, glow as embers. Like most men, I'm an amateur in the capture of hearts. No surprise you rejected my fawning crush. I have always loved most those I wanted to be. When I look into my friend's eyes is it your twinkle looking back at me? I could leave but where would my thoughts find a home without me to return to?

But life is bitter within a shell, lonely within a cave. It's art for those who come out and play.

There are 22 "poems". Each is represented ... in order ... in the above. Of course, I may still change the order.

I've worked on acknowledgements and citations. Need to find cover photo, decide final layout, choose font, find place to print it.

Still lots of work. But ... it's coming along. If I pace myself I won't exhaust myself.

As for travel? On hold but even trip to Costa Rica MUST be planned soon.

Portugal?

Portugal got on Lonely Planet's list... Nice, but does that mean more tourists?

http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/lists-lonely-planets-top-travel-picks-2014-1718388...

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