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Saturday, May 31, 2008

ALL DAILY DREAMKU POSTED IN MAY 2008


Though this month of dreams started off with a nightmare – very rare for me – overall it seems to have been fairly positive. I wrote a dream haibun about that nightmare, but it’s not below. I will briefly say that I am very grateful for that nightmare because it made me aware of feelings I was having I didn’t know about, that I really needed to be cognizant of.

You’ll note I’ve been writing more dream tanka, and even mixing dream tanka and dreamku together in a series. I’m liking the tanka form the more I try writing in it and learn about it. For one thing, the tanka form has just enough space for the image lover in me to at least vaguely develop an image, if one suggests itself as I write about a dream. For instance in the dream tanka following, I began to have the feeling of black panthers as I wrote. When I checked in again with my sense/memory of the dream -- the dream was still very "warm" as I was writing in the wee hours, fresh from waking from it -- a panther image seemed entirely consistent with the dream at a feeling level:

BLACK LEATHER GANG

The black leather gang
pads up my apartment stairs.
Sleek, like young panthers,
they set my heart to racing
with the thrill of hope’s bright bite.


That last line could very well describe my experience of this month, both waking and dreaming.


ALL DAILY DREAMKU POSTED IN MAY 2008

May 1, 2008

she undresses
slowly before him
his five o’clock shadow



May 2, 2008

children change the world a rescued easel



May 3, 2008

plush new carpet
the baby flings himself down
and up, down and up



May 4, 2008

he asks if I want
the two full baby bottles
left on the table
I quickly pick one of them
and suck the sweet milk

[dream tanka]



May 5, 2008

we each put our makeup
on the conference table
my ice cream concealer



May 6, 2008

my uncle wears
a long, mostly white coat dress
his proud husband



May 7, 2008

round black and white eyes
mandalas I do over
in vivid colors



May 8, 2008

couples dressed in gold
parade through the grand throne room
new production, same show



May 9, 2008

the new living room
John Lennon centers a large
plastic tube cage



May 10, 2008

HE WON’T DANCE
(dream tanka)

he won't dance with me
then quickly changes his mind
I like how he feels
as we sway oh-so-slowly,
my perch on his toes no problem



May 11, 2008

SEND IN THE CLOWNS

my old friend
extorts and controls us
bumbling villain

turbaned clownish folk
scare me a little bit
heros and heroines



May 12, 2008

user beware
the butt wiping machine
attacks on no notice



May 13, 2008

DANGER LOOMS
(dream tanka)

Danger looms over
my small house in the dark woods.
I warn the animals
while a bear curls in my tub
to protect me, yet again.



May 14, 2008

the embellished scroll
in a dark wood frame
hung up again



May 15, 2008

tiny pink roses
turn into golden brown earth
my cup spills over



May 16, 2008

BREAKDOWN

non compos mentis
and no resources left
this happened before

voluntary commitment
they want to know if I
ever black out

easier to give in
to the system
I refuse to be drugged



May 17, 2008

I sort and repack
books I’d left in an attic
the oil slick floor



May 18, 2008

FRAME WORK*

dried old leather straps
keep the frame's poles together
I'll repair it all

I'm neither strong
nor a trained mechanic
the supplies arrive

I heft a heavy
extremely long pole then wait
for strollers to pass.
Wielding the white pole end-first
I wince when I hit a tree.

lively old oak
dead branches crackle
as they fall

*Experimental grouping of three dreamku and a dream tanka, about one dream from beginning to end.



May 19, 2008

WHAT A TRIP!
(dreamku series on one dream)

the large dark bus
driven by Orson Welles
a near miss

stopped on boarding
my $3,000 fare
did not go through

weighed down by baggage
just tell me where to re-send
the money!



May 20, 2008

pool dancing
four large happy women
in bikinis



May 21, 2008

NIGHTTIME SHADOWS
(dream tanka)

Flat nighttime shadows
fill the cold statue garden.
Between two columns
lie photos for a collage
picked only for their feathers.



May 22, 2008

SURFACES*

she should always wear
such a rainbow of colors
after hours outfit

His corporate suit
and my tattered green coat clash.
As we walk we share
tales of our recoveries,
little difference beneath.

up escalator
his appreciative hand
along my back's curve

[*Two dreamku with a dream tanka between them; one each from three consecutive dreams of 5/21/08.]



May 23, 2008

the nurses wear
burkah-like nun’s habits
unexpected healing



May 24, 2008

BLACK LEATHER GANG

The black leather gang
pads up my apartment stairs.
Sleek, like young panthers,
they set my heart to racing
with the thrill of hope’s bright bite.



May 25, 2008

E-LIFE*

the unrequested
huge computer download
electronic osmosis

email courtship
the cross-eyed lion creature
sniffs at her butt

[*A dreamku pair from two separate dreams of May 23, 2008.]



May 26, 2008

OPENING NIGHT*

In the crowded aisle
of the new supermarket
I see hoards of ghosts:
soap opera characters
ensouled by sugary shades.

she won't stop smiling
and clings to her black boxes
food aisle face-off

[*A dream tanka and dreamku on the same dream of 5/24/08. Although I almost always prefer to let these images speak for themselves, this dream pair gave me quite a laugh, even as they told me something important. The laugh? I was just starting the fifth day of a diet when I had this dream. Miss sugar? Not much. NOT!]



May 27, 2008



[a dog quickly digs
narrow paths to the High Road
the best defense]

[dream haiga with Rider/Waite/Smith Moon card, manipulated in Paint]



May 28, 2008

WHERE'S THE SHAMPOO?*

I sneak in to use
my parent's shower
where's the shampoo?

nude and wet
in the courtyard garden
I can't find shampoo

a perky woman offers
to get me what I need
no conditioner

[*These three dreamku cover one dream from 5/16/08.]



May 30, 2008

she fears she can’t dance
her handsome teacher starts
an elegant soft shoe



May 31, 2008

I add a lilac pen
and dark shiny circle
his healing collage

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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, and Yahoo DREAMJIN: Group for Dreamku – Haiku-Like Dream Poems.

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Monday, May 26, 2008

IN A NEW SPACE: a dream haibun, by Patricia Kelly



IN A NEW SPACE
(a haibun, on a dream of 3/25/08)

On the concrete stoop outside her new home sits a bowl of still warm popcorn. I know it's meant for each visitor to sample, but I hungrily eat it all.

unpopped kernels
I leave the blue bowl behind
and climb the few stairs


I ask if her small compact home is modular. No corner of its design is wasted, with polished golden-brown wood all around.

she beckons
I squeeze down the spiral stairs
to the lower level


The living room is airy and light-filled. She walks toward a curtained door and gestures in invitation.

opened drapes
the seashore curves gently
just beyond the glass


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IMAGE: by the kind permission of Liquid Sculpture.com. Give yourself a treat and visit this site.

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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, and Yahoo DREAMJIN: Group for Dreamku – Haiku-Like Dream Poems.

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

HAIKU: Response to One Single Impression Prompt of 5/25/08



lost field guide
no names for these blooms
I'm grateful for eyes

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sea and shore
meet beyond my reach
the sun shines

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strolling a lone crow on the manicured lawn

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gems in the lamplight
her gift of stones
and sun bleached shells


The prompt for this week at ONE SINGLE IMPRESSION is "reflecting." Each of the moments I reflect on in the above haiku prompted (and still prompts) a sense of gratitude in me. And since today is the Memorial Day celebration, I offer them in grateful memory of all who served and are serving.

Give One Single Impression a visit and check out the delightful variety of responses to this prompt.

(The photo above is one I took in the late 1980's on Block Island, Rhode Island, my heretofore favorite place on earth. My favorite now? Here, at the beach overlook in Goleta, California, my new home.)

P.S., sometime after posting the above: I looked up from my computer and a poem I just taped on my wall last night jumped out at me. Eerie! Something similar happened last week with my response to the OSI prompt. And again the "found" poem seems highly apropos --

A WALK
by Ranier Maria Rilke

My eyes already touch the sunny hill,
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance --

and changes us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our face.

(translated by Robert Bly)

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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, and Yahoo DREAMJIN: Group for Dreamku – Haiku-Like Dream Poems.

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