BETWEEN THE LINES (photo) & A SURETY (dreamku) by Roswila
oh my heavens!
look at that cracked ceiling
it could just fall down
and that one huge cleft
that splits the white expanse
completely in half
furthering the fear of
a blizzard of plaster
how can it be that
a reassurance emanates
from this spreading web,
a surety that beyond it
lies a cathedral-like space ...
... created by curving
wooden struts and columns –
plaster chunks and dust
may rain down but the house
will stand whole through it all
[a dreamku and three tanka on a dream of 3-12-12. This dream/ku and its accompanying photo put me in mind of my favorite word in the English language. One I have rediscovered twice over a period of over 40 years, as I never have occasion to speak it, even if I could readily recall it: hypaethral. (Said hi-pay-thrull, accent on second syllable.) It basically means "open to the sky." Its meaning plus its music has delighted me from the first time I found it in a book by Mircea Eliade (I think it was "The Sacred and the Profane"). Photo "Between the Lines" by Roswila]
Also, the photo accompanying a daily dream poem or non-dream based poem is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse -- similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku). I've also recently realized that although the dreamku (i.e. dream based poems) posted here tend not to have metaphor or simile, the accompanying photos almost always act as such.
To write a metaphor or simile into a dream scenario is something I rarely do. It can be confusing: did it really look like a hand, say, in the dream, or am I just being poetic to make my conscious point? As these dreamku act as a dream journal, my over-riding tendency is to try to stay close to the actual dream scenario itself. Admittedly making for a tendency to less "poetic" dreamku. Then why pay attention to any haiku, tanka, or monoku parameters at all when writing about my dreams? Because I find in even attempting to adhere to them I'm making choices that relieve my dream recall of a great deal of chatter so that I can get down to some important dream aspects. Here's a link to THE AREN'TS OF DREAMKU & ACCOMPANYING PHOTOS in which I go into some of the basic parameters for dreamku and the photos chosen to go with them (and with any non-dream based poems I post here, as well).
The archives in the sidebar hold years of the daily dreamku, tanka, monoku and photo posts I've made, grouped in one post by month. As I no longer post dreamku (or non-dream based poems) strictly daily, each post will appear below and then in the archives by the day on which it was posted.
There are many other sorts of posts here, not all dream-based. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non-dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers than myself), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006 in the sidebar.
‘til next time, keep dreaming,
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
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