INTRODUCTION

[above date not the actual date of post, but for convenience of linking to it within on-going newer posts]

INTRODUCTION continued:

Taking digital photos is my newest consuming passion. I'm still rather a newbie, never having taken any photos for my own personal delight before March of 2009, who's greatly enjoying learning by trial and error. My basis for choosing a photo from my files for a dreamku post is not that it necessarily literally illustrate the dreamku, but that (as with Japanese haiga) it in some subtle, even slant way references an aspect of the dreamku writing posted.

Here's a link to a somewhat more explanatory post about both dreamku and my photos THE AREN'TS OF DREAMKU.

Links here to a more detailed three-part post about dreamku: "A DREAMKU PRIMER: Writing Haiku-Like Poems About Your Night Dreams": PART ONE: Introduction & Writing Dreamku as DreamWork; PART TWO: Elements of the Haiku Form Used in Dreamku; and PART THREE: How to Write Dreamku (the second and third parts have some overlap).

Although I use the tanka and monoku forms, I am less familiar with their parameters than with dreamku. And find that what I do know of any of these forms is a great aid in recording and exploring my dreams. Most of the time I've been developing the dreamku form I've been as much -- and even more so -- concerned with the craft as with the dream content itself. But now I find with dreamku, tanka, and monoku I'm leaning more toward focus on the dream itself. Not that I'm leaving craft behind. Not at all. But given what I could be learning about these forms or exploring about dreamku, it is a minimal and somewhat "elastic" knowledge of the forms that I work within. P.S. of October 12, 2011: Things have swung back in the past several months for me. I'm now focussing more on the craft again, maybe more than I ever have. In a way, doing what I do when writing non-dream based poems: trusting the images to speak for themselves.

N.B. I offer all of my work on this blog -- poetry, prose or art -- simply as explorations. Also, in working with this blog I have realized I am essentially telling the story of my life. In a jig-saw puzzle form, piece by piece. I hope you get something from whatever pieces of the picture you view.

P.S. If you see any typos anywhere on this site, I'd love it if you'd email me or leave a comment telling me what and where. I recently found some typos in older posts (despite all the proofing I do) and it was a bit like having been out in public grinning and then finding I had spinach in my teeth!

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‘til next time, keep dreaming,

[aka: Patricia Kelly]
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