FRACTIOUS (photo art) & A NAUSEATING MIX (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

A NAUSEATING MIX

she simply
will not take my urgent question seriously
she won't
acknowledge we need to be leaving very soon
in order to be on time or we'll lose out entirely
her jokes
wind me up
tighter than an old fashioned alarm clock
springs and broken glass and metal shards
will be shooting dangerously
all over the place if she continues to put me off
and still she hides behind her hallmark humor
I grab and heft a black folding chair
and smash
and smash
and smash it
even as the pieces clatter to the ground
and roll away with a sound like grinding teeth
I'm overwhelmed by a nauseating mix
of relief and
regret

[free verse dream poem on a dream of 9-10-13. I had several other dream poems to post before this one. Then it became sort of irrelevant as I had worked out being so p.o.'d at the situation that precipitated the above dream. However, wait long enough and "everything old is new again." I just got really upset about a new situation yesterday. So this rather hyperbolic addressing of over-reaction is once again pertinent. Photo "Fractious" (9-23-13) by Roswila]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DREAMKU (& PHOTOS): The dream-based poems posted on this blog -- dreamku, tanka, two-liners, monoku, free verse, etc. -- 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 relate to 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.

Also please note that a dream poem is not intended as an interpretation of a dream, or even a complete and accurate rendering of one. It is my attempt to get down dream imagery/action that grabs me and, as I write about it, elicits my conscious written association and response. Nor do I believe that one has to remember dreams in order for them to do their work. In my understanding, we are much more than our conscious selves.

You may also note in any further reading on dreamku (the specific forms of dreamku, tanka, two-liners and monoku) you may do here, that in the beginning I stressed "showing, not telling." However, this has been changing for some time now. I now tend to "show" (the dream narrative) and cap if off with a "tell" (some reaction and/or insight I've had to the dream as I was writing about it). This pretty much applies to free verse dream poems as well.

For more in-depth exploration of the dreamku forms specifically (and one post in which I also address my photo choices):

-- very brief comparison of dreamku and haiku: DREAMKU ARE NOT HAIKU

-- 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 connections & other blogs: Charter Member of the United Haiku and Tanka Society (UHTS); ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.