NIGHT & DAY (photo) & PILLOW SONG (dreamku series) by Roswila

PILLOW SONG

the morning calls
vaguely through her curtains
again and again
Morpheus sings like a siren
and she falls back into his arms

he inveigles her
to stay each time with strange vistas:
doors opening inside the sea
deaths reversing themselves
card games grousing like people

knowing the day can’t possibly match up
she yields each time to the song of her pillow


[two tanka and a two-liner on a night’s dreaming and the morning’s oversleeping, 11-23-12. Photo “Night & Day” 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 TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

WINTER HARBOR (photo) & UNDERWATER AGAIN (dreamku series) by Roswila

UNDERWATER AGAIN

underwater again
but this time in a harbor
she likes this new space

a celebrity --
male blonde vacuous --
decides to save her,
he and his worshipful fans
launch in cardboard boxes

her giggles make loops
of bubbles through the water,
she hopes they’ve lined
those silly boxes with plastic
and sealed them carefully


[a dreamku and two tanka on a dream of 11-22-12. Photo “Winter Harbor” 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 TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN (photo) & BITING BACK (dream tanka trio) by Roswila

BITING BACK

Yes, my dear, I do
have rather big and pointy
front teeth, but my bark
is truly far worse as I
won’t let myself take a bite

so, would you be
the dear I know you can be
and help me do this
help me file down this sharp
and jagged dentition,

smooth these edges before
I draw blood from my own lips --
I tire of all this
cautious smiling and my jaw aches
for unfettered discourse


[three tanka on a dream of 11-21-12. Another fairy tale reference. This one harking back to “Little Red Riding Hood” (e.g., when she says to the wolf who’d swallowed her grandmother, “My, what big teeth you have!”) Also, a slant reference to vampires. Lots in all this, even beyond those two associations. And, no, I didn't forget, despite my grumpy mood I'm aware of all there is to be grateful for:
Happy Thanksgiving!
Photo “Midnight in the Garden” 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 TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

THE WAY HOME (photo) & AN OPEN SECRET (dream tanka & two-liner) by Roswila

AN OPEN SECRET

when the day is done
and home’s too far away or lost
many use their office --
quiet shelter, more or less brief,
from the demanding city

familiar halls and the occasional co-worker
passing through – she always stays the longest


[a tanka and two-liner on a dream of 11-20-12. Office as metaphor for life's work, in my case, writing and other creative efforts. This dream was a response (at least in part) to my request for help from my dreams as I went to sleep last night. This answer is essentially a confirmation of what I've been doing and encouragement to keep on doing so. Photo “The Way Home” 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 TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

TILT! (photo) & THE WOBBLE (dreamku series) by Roswila

THE WOBBLE
(series of dreams from one night)

he’s alive again,
this young boy I’d helped raise,
and his mother and
I are friends again but this
can only be a dream

then I get the job
I’d applied for, despite my
utter lack of skill

and my new co-worker
swallows an untested cure
determined to live --
they rush to pump her stomach
she’d taken the wrong risk

a voice wryly notes: “Seems there’s always
a wobble at the center of the universe”


[a dream tanka, dreamku, dream tanka, and capping two-liner on a series of dreams of 11-19-12. Those words in quotes at the end are verbatim and were the total content of the last dream I recall from the night’s sleep. Photo “Tilt!” 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 TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

ON THE TABLE (photo) & [untitled] (dream tanka) by Roswila

(untitled)

I repair the scratched
coffee table with cheap stain
to put off the end
it doesn't change anything
and I only feel guilty


[almost four year old dream tanka written/dreamed in early January 2009. Very little dream recall last night and what little there was wasn’t very interesting. Mostly about accounting, i.e. keeping financial records, and what the proper column headings were for each category. Yeah, I “keep too many accounts” when it comes to my life, trying to balance things out. I’d probably do better to let go. Just like this dream coffee table; give up the effort to maintain what's past usefulness or plain not working. Photo “On the Table” 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 TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

TAKING IT ON THE CHIN (photo) & SURVIVING (dream tanka series) by Roswila

SURVIVING

the conquerors don’t
let the indigenes keep their
own art-defined culture,
all evidence of it
is sought out and confiscated

the first people stand
heart broken as their homes
are thoroughly searched
(thoughtlessly, relentlessly)
for bootleg paintings and books

cautious whispers spread
among the mourning natives
that their art survives
hidden deep under cover
where no one would suspect,

and not even an
easing of this awful ban
would prompt its outing:
once ripped up by the roots,
forever withheld


[four tanka on a dream of 11-17-12. Photo “Taking It On the Chin” 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 TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.