JOINING THE HERD (photo) & A PEGASUS HERD (dreamku series) by Roswila

A PEGASUS HERD

she listens endlessly
from the large circle of students
“Time to get moving”
their teacher suddenly says,
“I’ll show you the best way”

but as always she
goes her own way, starting a
walking exercise
she’d learned long ago when young
and still so impressionable

she makes windmill strokes
with her long arms, curving her palms
to create air drag
she notes a tug upward as if
she were about to take off

as her feet lift from
the ground and she starts to pump
along with her legs,
someone exclaims to the others
“Look! Look what she’s doing!”

she rises quickly
her now aerial breast stroke
shaping up nicely
she warms to the coordination
required between arms and legs

soaring above the
curved cables of a huge bridge
she marvels at the clouds
“Maybe I’ll discover
a Pegasus herd,” she thinks

but has she flown too
high to find her house again
she peers through the clouds,
“Ah, yes, there’s the city in
the harbor,” and she slows to land

wondering why most
know only the grace-filled earth
while some must sound the sky


[seven tanka and a dreamku on a dream of 7-14-12. Photo “Joining the Herd” by Roswila (F.Y.I., those slight rainbow colors were actually there; they were what caused a friend to chase after me excitedly asking if I had my camera with me; note also that lemniscate shape at the top of the photo)]

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.

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 brief 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 OPENING TO THE LIGHT.

MAPPING THE GALAXY (photo) & THE (NOT SO) BIG BANG (non-dream based tanka) by Roswila

THE (NOT SO) BIG BANG

clarity pops up
acausally like a photon
and as acausally
disappears from the webwork
of endless mentation

each brief burst lasts
barely long enough to brush
against consciousness
but long enough to impress
the possibility of light


[non-dream based tanka pair written in June 2012, and photo "Mapping the Galaxy" 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.

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 brief 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 OPENING TO THE LIGHT.

THE WAY OUT (photo) & MURKY (dreamku series) by Roswila

MURKY

heralded by that
long ago woman-friend-
cum-betrayer,
a long night’s dreams filled with
murky unpleasant images:

like the judges
of the fashion contest who wave
me quickly away
when I’d not even entered the
contest nor asked for their opinions

or the married man
who takes me on quite a ride
before I catch on

then the thief and,
ultimately, murderer
who kidnaps me
in his panel truck to keep
me from speaking out

and those attempting
to drug insensible the lions
they’d captured
and caged in a pretty but
stultifying cityscape

all this shuffling between
various neural networks, images
vaguely impressed and
mixed up with others, making
for a shadow-filled mongrel zoo


[dreamku series on dreams of 7-7-12. I’d like to say these dreams were due to not feeling well at all physically and waking up not only more frequently, but staying awake longer when I did. However, I suspect there was also some re-shuffling going on of memories and their associated emotions (in addition to not feeling well). All to the good, but it was a very busy night. Note of 7-12-12: I can now also see a predictive element to these dreams. As I’ve said here before, not that I knew the future in some “woo-woo” way, but that a less conscious part of me was sensing the build-up to some unpleasantness in an actual waking situation. Photo “The Way Out” 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.

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 brief 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 OPENING TO THE LIGHT.

THE LITTLE MERMAID DREAMS (photo) & EXERCISING CHOICE (dreamku series) by Roswila

EXERCISING CHOICE

of the two ways this
story can go, they choose
the Hero’s Journey
(at least this time around)
and head off down the beach

the dark male villain
hides among boulders at sea’s edge
the Hero, sun-burnished,
finds and engages him quickly
in the nipping shadows

though no real threat seems
to loom over this fantasy scene
I feel a bit guilty
I should be over there, available
to help if the need arises

I start across the beach
toward the choreographed battle
the wet sand sucking
at my feet and nearly pulling
my sneakers off on each step

only a firmness
a few inches below the quick-
sand like surface keeps
me from walking right out
of my comfortable old shoes

do I really think the Hero can use my help?
bottom line? I need the exercise


[five tanka capped by a two-liner on a dream of 7-2-12. Photo “The Little Mermaid Dreams” 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.

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 brief 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 OPENING TO THE LIGHT.

RARIFIED AIR (photo) & ON PERFORMING (tanka dream series) by Roswila

ON PERFORMING

her stage performance,
evolving since childhood years,
dazzles and delights --
each time the pillar of people
builds she springs from the top

its layered colors,
like a rainbow spectrum or
alluvial deposits,
curve and curl, braiding upward
in a tall narrow tower

this time she resists
unbending from its top arch
to sing out to her
waiting audience – she’s tired
of all this performing

all she ever wanted
was to go to school, to be
a quiet scholar
but first family, then agents
pushed her into the theatre

even her manager
only gives lip service to her
studious bent
noting it sadly, yet always
pushing for the next show


[a tanka series on a dream of 7-9-12. Photo “Rarified Air” 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.

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 brief 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 OPENING TO THE LIGHT.

SOUL SUPPORT (photo) & EYE CANDY (dreamku) by Roswila

EYE CANDY

I smile to myself
as two men in drag walk up
the steep wooded hill
their shapely shaven legs
pale and totally exposed

which pair of columns do I like best
the massively buff or the taut slim jims


[a tanka and two-liner on a dream of 6-27-12. Photo “Soul Support” by Roswila. A comment on the title of this over two year old picture: it was named a long time ago, but on noting it today it gave me a starting point for relating to this funny little dream. In Jungian psychology, the male within a woman's psyche [animus; the woman in man, anima] is said to be "a mediator of spiritual profundity" -- at least at its most developed level. As with everything, the animus goes through stages of development. Don't think the above stage is very profound, but I certainly am enjoying it in this dream. My dreams do keep coming back to this aspect of the growing edge, taking it all -- especially one's self -- more lightly. This is not to ignore the inspiration in this dream to get my own beleaguered legs into better shape.]

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.

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 brief 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 OPENING TO THE LIGHT.

SCRIPTORIUM (photo) & METAPHOR ON METAPHOR (dream tanka pair) by Roswila

METAPHOR ON METAPHOR

“Writing love letters
in the sand” sings out each time
I wake, erasing
as surely as a wave the
current dream inscription

somehow, though, I know
no love letters have been lost
beneath consciousness
just more lonely scribbling
trying to pin down the tides


[two tanka on a night’s forgotten dreams, 6-28-12. Here’s a link to the full lyrics for Love Letters in the Sand. As I always do, the night of these lost dreams I woke up several times to move because my arthritic joints hurt. But that night each time I woke instead of going over what I’d been dreaming, I was singing these lines in my mind and immediately lost recall of any dream(s). When I got up in the morning with the song still stuck on replay in my mind, I realized what a pointed metaphor it is for dreaming. This may have been, at least in part, some slant day residue. I’d just finished a (mostly) intriguing book on metaphor, “I Is An Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We see the World” by James Geary. A last note: the song lyrics and memories of the years it evokes, also have had personal meaning to me, just like a dream. Photo “Scriptorium” 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.

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 brief 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 OPENING TO THE LIGHT.