ALL DAILY DREAMKU POSTED IN APRIL 2007
Dreamku posted April 30, 2007 (graphic also by Roswila)
It was a pleasant surprise on reading these over as a group to see how many indicate an awareness of a need for change, for letting go, and even in some a strength and determination. It's been an intense month, to say the least, with not only my internal "mishigoss" going on, but a wonderful (and understandably dithering) roommate preparing to be married, and then moving out. LOL!
My favorite this month is:
black sea trenches
the pirate captain urges
reclaiming one’s own
Yes. That is what I'm about these days. Reclaiming lost or tossed away or stolen aspects of myself from whatever darkness or deep in which they turn and agitate. Whether sweet or sour, nice or naughty, amenable or ferocious, "[g]reat or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul" (as Whitman says at the end of "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry").
ALL DAILY DREAMKU POSTED IN APRIL 2007
April 1, 2007
THE ODD COUPLE
(three from a dream of 3/31/07)
expectations
the two ghosts move in again
rent-free
these old haunts
should pay toward their upkeep
fair is fair!
acceptance or this
draining demand for justice
the razor’s edge
April 2, 2007
two large digs
he asks which mound held
this ancient artifact
April 3, 2007
LIFE LESSON
(from dreams in March & early April 2007)
lesson one
her troubled son
is now in my lap
lesson two
his friend's illness
swamps me
lesson three
we don't have to follow
along in these lines
lesson four
she wears sparkly hose
on her huge legs
lesson five
my friend casually drinks
diamond dust
lesson six
they collage the inside
of a glass vase
lesson seven
dying, living
it's all art
April 4, 2007
dozens of billboards
the dark sadness
of clowns
April 5, 2007
the henchwoman
stares her target down
killer eyes
April 6, 2007
black sea trenches
the pirate captain urges
reclaiming one’s own
April 7, 2007
on the other show
she’s in a love triangle
cuckolded actress
April 8, 2007
all gussied up
Billy Holiday sings
right next to me
April 9, 2007
The Empress cradles
Death in Her wide lap
crossroads
[Both The Empress and Death are Tarot cards]
April 10, 2007
futile attacks
they throw lit matches at me
from the terrace
April 11, 2007
she sees beneath
the ceramic surface
living clay
April 12, 2007
she shares her dream
two dark images shimmer
with promise
April 13, 2007
future plans
she offers to show me
her new eye
April 14, 2007
crossing over
the long metal pole
just misses her eye
April 15, 2007
dead or stolen
tiny dots reseed
the aquarium
April 16, 2007
old friends traipse
heavily through the dream
last ditch effort
April 17, 2007
huge dark worms
crawl in through the windows
no way out
[I was reminded of this childhood nightmare and the dreamku I wrote about it some time ago, when I first heard of the Virginia Tech shootings yesterday. My prayers are with all those hurt by this horrible tragedy.]
April 18, 2007
the provenance claims
the rifle’s wood is ancient
cheap shots
April 19, 2007
I follow tiny
volkswagens down the hillside
border check
April 20, 2007
you can’t multiply
6 X R for the road
valueless
April 21, 2007
coloring
the butterfly bracelet
iron spine
April 22, 2007
high spirits
I push the handicapped man
on his scooter
April 23, 2007
step-children
she buys bright flowers
for our room
April 24, 2007
exposed....her green-skinned wicked witch
April 25, 2007
her father walks her
to her new home
lost key
April 26, 2007
my forefingers stuck
in the woven puzzle tube
out is not the way
April 27, 2007
enraging
they let me believe
that he was dead
April 28, 2007
scales resolve
back into flesh
weremander
April 29, 2007
baby owls
hatch behind the couch
what to feed them
April 30, 2007
[see top of post]
* * * *
April 1, 2007
THE ODD COUPLE
(three from a dream of 3/31/07)
expectations
the two ghosts move in again
rent-free
these old haunts
should pay toward their upkeep
fair is fair!
acceptance or this
draining demand for justice
the razor’s edge
April 2, 2007
two large digs
he asks which mound held
this ancient artifact
April 3, 2007
LIFE LESSON
(from dreams in March & early April 2007)
lesson one
her troubled son
is now in my lap
lesson two
his friend's illness
swamps me
lesson three
we don't have to follow
along in these lines
lesson four
she wears sparkly hose
on her huge legs
lesson five
my friend casually drinks
diamond dust
lesson six
they collage the inside
of a glass vase
lesson seven
dying, living
it's all art
April 4, 2007
dozens of billboards
the dark sadness
of clowns
April 5, 2007
the henchwoman
stares her target down
killer eyes
April 6, 2007
black sea trenches
the pirate captain urges
reclaiming one’s own
April 7, 2007
on the other show
she’s in a love triangle
cuckolded actress
April 8, 2007
all gussied up
Billy Holiday sings
right next to me
April 9, 2007
The Empress cradles
Death in Her wide lap
crossroads
[Both The Empress and Death are Tarot cards]
April 10, 2007
futile attacks
they throw lit matches at me
from the terrace
April 11, 2007
she sees beneath
the ceramic surface
living clay
April 12, 2007
she shares her dream
two dark images shimmer
with promise
April 13, 2007
future plans
she offers to show me
her new eye
April 14, 2007
crossing over
the long metal pole
just misses her eye
April 15, 2007
dead or stolen
tiny dots reseed
the aquarium
April 16, 2007
old friends traipse
heavily through the dream
last ditch effort
April 17, 2007
huge dark worms
crawl in through the windows
no way out
[I was reminded of this childhood nightmare and the dreamku I wrote about it some time ago, when I first heard of the Virginia Tech shootings yesterday. My prayers are with all those hurt by this horrible tragedy.]
April 18, 2007
the provenance claims
the rifle’s wood is ancient
cheap shots
April 19, 2007
I follow tiny
volkswagens down the hillside
border check
April 20, 2007
you can’t multiply
6 X R for the road
valueless
April 21, 2007
coloring
the butterfly bracelet
iron spine
April 22, 2007
high spirits
I push the handicapped man
on his scooter
April 23, 2007
step-children
she buys bright flowers
for our room
April 24, 2007
exposed....her green-skinned wicked witch
April 25, 2007
her father walks her
to her new home
lost key
April 26, 2007
my forefingers stuck
in the woven puzzle tube
out is not the way
April 27, 2007
enraging
they let me believe
that he was dead
April 28, 2007
scales resolve
back into flesh
weremander
April 29, 2007
baby owls
hatch behind the couch
what to feed them
April 30, 2007
[see top of post]
* * * *
‘til next time, keep dreaming,
Roswila
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
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Labels: dream haiku, dreamku
posted by Roswila @ 7:47 PM
2 Comments:
Good morning, Patricia,
I love reading through the whole series each month. For April, I.m reading about the borderland between death and life, it seems... people who are net but maybe not, ghosts that return... but also tiny seeds, children and step-children, and things that grow.
I do love those baby owls :)
bb's, Mary Pat
Glad you enjoy reading the entire series, Mary Pat. I do, too, but thought that was just more of my self-absorption. :-)
I'm beginning to see how developing this dreamku form has been part of a deep "sea change" in how I respond to my dreams. In all the decades before I got deeply involved with trying to write dream haiku, I'd chase down just about every dream and every detail in it for its significance. Making for a tremendous amount of work, and frustration when I did not have the hours of time to do so.
But I now find since I've been developing the dreamku form, that I'm taking a more relaxed stand with respect to my dreams. I sort of let the dreams tell me when and how to respond, instead of chasing after each and every one and analyzing them in great detail.
I.e., if a dream needs a thorough working over, I find I'm urged to explore it as soon as I record it (even at 3:00 a.m. LOL!). (This level is quite rare these days.) The next level is the urge to write a dreamku without recording the full dream. (These dreams seem to feel "containable" in a dreamku, for some reason.) And the last, most common level, is just to record the dream details and then write a dreamku (or sometimes several) on it some time (even days) later.
The common thread is that sense that I'm responding to a particular sort of call for action from the dream, as opposed to going after every dream in the same analytic way. Make sense?
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