WINTER TREE (photo) & RECALLING NEW YORK CITY WINTERS (non-dream haiku trio) by Roswila

RECALLING NEW YORK CITY WINTERS
(old non-dream haiku)


window seat
a distant train races
the winter moon

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pried open at last
the pistachio nut pops
lost in the lap rug

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Moon of Long Nights
the small victory
of a haiku


[My dream recall’s been very poor the last couple of days. Above are three of my regular (i.e., not dream-based) haiku that were written in early winter. They date back to 2000 and maybe even earlier, well before I moved here to California (2008). In fact, I know that the second “pistachio nut” haiku is one of my oldest, written in a class I took on writing haiku back in the late 1980’s. "Moon of Long Nights" in the third haiku is one American Indian name for December's full moon. Photo “Winter Tree” by Roswila]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DREAMKU (& PHOTOS): The dream-based poems posted on this blog -- dreamku, tanka, two-liners, and monoku -- are offered in the spirit of collaboration. I have done my part. Now it’s your turn to jump in and see what comes up for you. I.e., there is no right or wrong way to understand or interpret any of these dream offerings. Even my own understandings of them change over time. And it gives me joy when a reader sees something in any of them that I have not.

Further, haiku afficianado and translator David Gerard said in a recent post: “One of the most important aspects of haiku is that much is left ambiguous, unspoken, undefined. Ludmila Balabanova writes, ‘Haiku isn't a perception shared by the author, but an invitation to the reader to achieve his own enlightenment.’” To that I add that the same might be said of all the dreamku, and dream-based tanka, two-liners, and monoku on this blog.

For more in-depth exploration:

-- a brief post about both dreamku and my photos THE AREN'TS OF DREAMKU & ACCOMPANYING DIGITAL PHOTOS.

-- detailed three-part post about dreamku: "A DREAMKU PRIMER: Writing Haiku-Like Poems About Your Night Dreams": PART ONE: Introduction & Writing Dreamku as Dream Work; 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).

-- a short up-dating post about the three-part "A DREAMKU PRIMER" -- Important Up-date to A DREAMKU PRIMER....".

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‘til next time, keep dreaming,






If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blogs: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.