COLLAGE ON MY NEW DAILY JOURNAL

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I've just finished filling up a large spiral bound journal whose collaged cover I've posted here a few times. The collage above is the one I just did on my new journal cover.

Some of the images are a bit "soft" for my scanner, but I think for the most part the various images come across. The words beneath the fairy in the upper right are "Go Away," which are highly appropriate as she's guarding the privacy of the journal. :-) The words just below that on the pale pink CD cover are "Dreamkeeper," also highly appropriate for any journal of mine. The image in the little circle on the upper left is Kokopelli, who in the American Indian tradition is said to spread seeds as he wanders playing his flute. (Need I say it? I play various wind instruments....) And all the horses? I've always loved horses and recently have had lots of horse dreams. That woman sitting in a chair with the book in her lap and cats around her? She's The Page of Pentacles in The Tarot of the Cat People. And that's pretty much what I feel like when in my easy chair, where I spend so much time reading -- both books and Tarot. (I used to have cats, too.) That easy chair is like the throne (LOL!) at the center of my little apartment universe.

I hope some enjoyment comes through from my little universe to whatever universes you traverse.

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‘til next time, keep dreaming,

Roswila
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
****If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”)****My other blogs ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL and ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT.

REVISION OF A SPRING HAIGA (by Patricia Kelly)

Here's the revision:



And here's the initial two versions:

I like the first (with the orange font) most. More movement, less sharp "crookedness." Any opinions? (See the comments for responses to the first two versions.)

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Resource: Digital Haiga Gallery.

‘til next time, keep dreaming,

Roswila
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
****If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”)****My other blogs ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL and ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT.

ALL DAILY DREAMKU POSTED IN MAY 2007

The Moon card, Thalia Took

This month's crop of dreamku seems to have a split personality. The mood changes from rather positive to increasingly negative after the very middle of the month. I’m tempted to say that’s a result of my moon phase hyper-sensitivity. Gibbous moons – the phase just before full – always agitate me unpleasantly in some way. Sometimes effecting me as much as a week to ten days before the actual gibbous moon appears. A full (Blue) moon phase is just now passing and so hopefully will my negativity. Though honestly there’s a lot else stirring up the gunk and mud in my emotional life than just moon phases. But maybe without the added influence of a gibbous moon I’ll be better able to make some very needed changes.

I am surprised there aren’t many more apartment or house images in this month’s dreamku. I’ve been focused on re-arranging my apartment now that my roommate has moved out, and thoroughly enjoying it. Though I hasten to admit I don’t enjoy all the body aches and pains. :-) I’ve been (and still am) doing more lifting and cleaning and packing away and throwing out than I’ve done in the 22 years I’ve been here. Maybe some of the emotional upset in the second half of this month's dreamku is also about re-arranging and clearing out on an inner level. I certainly hope so!

ALL DAILY DREAMKU POSTED IN MAY 2007


May 1, 2007

the red cardinal
with his mate and three eggs
my new roommates



May 2, 2007

have you seen
anyone from the new moon?
my sun burned belly



May 3, 2007

feet of clay
her old acquaintances
follow in his dust




May 4, 2007

getting hosed
I’m left to clean up
their old disguises



May 5, 2007

they don’t get me
teaching by confession
can be tricky



May 6, 2007

I soak the quilt
and the women in the tub
laughter bubbles



May 7, 2007

hyper toddler
I grab her leash so I
can focus elsewhere



May 8, 2007

we try to upload
to her bed in outer space
no response



May 9, 2007

she demands I get
sugar for her little girl
it’s all relative



May 10, 2007

dream answer
I search now only for one,
three and eleven

[Note: Numbers have extremely strong Tarot relationships for me after over 30 years studying the Tarot. Before I was even really awake, right out of this dream I thought "Ah! I'm yearning for magic (I, The Magician); mothering (III, The Empress); and muscle (XI, Strength). This thought also illustrates an aspect of this poet's mind, and probably others': auto-alliteration. :-D]



May 11, 2007

a native woman
leads us through lush foothills
a large garlic bulb



May 12, 2007

black ballots, white print
each family member votes
on the change



May 13, 2007

I swim using my
extra lung alveoli
surface breakthrough



May 14, 2007

TRIPLETS
(dreamed Mother's Day, May 13, 2007)

hitchhiker
the yellow duckling takes
my hair for feathers

three of us play catch
in the surf with the large egg
darkness through a crack

a broad shouldered
narrow-hipped woman hatches
new Qabala* coach

[*Qabala: ancient Hebrew mysticism; correspondences can be seen between The Tarot and its Tree of Life]



May 15, 2007

she cuts a ragged
slice from the huge onion
why do I help



May 16, 2007

I let the crowd
force me out of the theatre
panic attack



May 17, 2007

too many parents
agree with the new regime
twisted offspring



May 18, 2007

they evict
family after family
organized chaos



May 19, 2007

she bites right
through her lower lip
bitter taste



May 20, 2007

of wine and roses
our drinking’s bad enough but
who might we subvert



May 21, 2007

almost everyone
in the room loses someone
serial killer



May 22, 2007

DANCING IN THE DARK
(a pair from a dream, Mary 20, 2007)

I see intriguing
spots dancing in the dark
she sees points of light

spring snow flurry
she points up the need to be
a light among lights



May 23, 2007

she hugs popcorn
to her chest for comfort
parting of the ways



May 24, 2007

my parents up front,
I sleep but do I dream
bumming a ride



May 25, 2007

the flesh above
that ancient heart wound puckers
the body remembers



May 26, 2007

DANCING BACKWARDS
(from a dream of May 21, 2007)

what a kick
they awkwardly practice
the jive step

cranky wallflower
I wander the ballroom
to find a teacher

I already know
the dance the old lady leads
her beaded blue gown



May 27, 2007

she rejects
the role she knows best
young drama queen



May 28, 2007

he argues
for going around the danger
stalled in the dark



May 29, 2007

LASTING
(from dream of May 28, 2007)

the last two horses
she could afford to raise
out to pasture

last of their line
the pair of old white horses
bright against the sky



May 30, 2007

a man next to me
face down in the water
live wires float



May 31, 2007

the long cardboard tubes
radiate danger
I ignore them

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‘til next time, keep dreaming,

Roswila
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
****If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”)****My other blogs ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL and ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT.