SAY WHAT!? (photo) & ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO POP (dreamku series) by Roswila

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO POP

sweet pink bubblegum
completely fills her mouth
she can barely wait
to get it chewed up enough
to blow humongous pink globes

ah! one for starters
it's too small for full effect
she pops it quickly
but soon she'll be happily bursting
bubbles in other people's faces

and she won't even mind when one
or two blows up in her own


[two tanka capped by a two-liner on a dream of 7-26-13. This is such a fun dream actually; even that ending had a lightness to it. (Tongue -- and gum -- in cheek: maybe it's because I finally learned decades back when raising my roommate's child how to get stuck gum off something. Freeze it with ice cubes and it breaks right off.) It was also a very nostalgic dream. I loved chewing bubble gum as a child, well into my early teen years. My stepmother used to say I was going to wind up with a jaw like an elephant. As to any "meaning" inherent in this little dream? Not sure yet, except that a subsequent dream had food imagery. So "chewing things over" was certainly one theme last night. And of course, the obvious meaning of the expression to burst a bubble: to give bad news, or end a delusion or fantasy. However, that idiomatic expression seems much heavier than this dream. Hm, maybe the delusions are ones that need to go? Whose time is long since past for popping? Understandings that now carry no more weight than some bubble? And, yes, there is some anxiety here that a new undertaking I've begun will blow up in my face. That it and I are full of hot air. Oh well, only time will tell. And one last association: don't blow things all out of proportion. Tell a lie, one more thought: I'm a little p.o.'d at other people right now, aren't I? Bursting bubbles in their faces seems to say "You don't know diddly!" Photo "Say What!?" 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 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 dreamku is not intended as an interpretation of a dream, or even a complete and accurate rendering of one. A dreamku 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 you may do, that in the beginning I stressed "showing, not telling." However, that 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).

For more in-depth exploration:

-- 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 other blogs: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

WHICH WAY OUT (photo) & MYSTERY (dreamku series) by Roswila

MYSTERY

they quickly hire me
as the newest worker
in their sleuthing group,
this mother and son with one
other shadowy male figure

though not a requirement for the job
they expect me to eat holistically

the mother wishes
to reject me even if I do
adhere to holism --
the son claims I'll come around
soon to their way of eating,

hearing nothing of what I say, even when
I ask for green tea instead of ghastly herbal

her "I told you so!"
doesn't phase her know-it-all
deeply stubborn son
"Just give her time," he says
as if who I am doesn't matter

one rejects what's different out of hand
the other insists he knows how to change it

and even worse, my wasted analysis -- I was hired
to work with mystery, not to be worked over


[mix of tanka and two-liners on a dream of 7-24-13. I've mentioned this here before, but it may bear repeating especially after this sort of dreamku. One approach in dream work is to relate to everything in a dream as some aspect of one's self (even that shadowy male figure, or the green tea, e.g.). I mention this because it would be very easy for me to cling to understanding this dream as being about waking life interpersonal relationships. There is that within this dream, but the greater importance is in what it says to me about how I relate to myself. Photo "Which 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 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 dreamku is not intended as an interpretation of a dream, or even a complete and accurate rendering of one. A dreamku 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 you may do, that in the beginning I stressed "showing, not telling." However, that 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).

For more in-depth exploration:

-- 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 other blogs: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

AQUARIUM (photo) & SPAWN (dreamku series) by Roswila

SPAWN

the six year old boy
and girl do a pas de deux
exquisitely,
beyond what one might expect
even from talented kids

talent and skill, yes,
but the dance is totally age
inappropriate
it's intimate both bodily
and emotionally

why does no one acknowledge this
and why were they taught this dance

meanwhile upstage
adults fall down a water wall
like fish in a tank
or dark salmon beaten back
by the ceaseless stream


[three tanka with one two-line on a dream of 7-23-13. Photo "Aquarium" 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 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 dreamku is not intended as an interpretation of a dream, or even a complete and accurate rendering of one. A dreamku 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 you may do, that in the beginning I stressed "showing, not telling." However, that 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).

For more in-depth exploration:

-- 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 other blogs: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

INVASION OF THE POD PEOPLE (photo) & [untitled] (dreamku) by Roswila

tumbling through the sky
with a charred underside
the moon or UFO?


[re-post of a dreamku from October 2008. The full moon (finally!) came in yesterday and I'm slowly beginning to feel somewhat more human. Not like some evil alien from another planet. And that's no joke. As anyone reading this blog knows, I suffer from what I call PMS, for Pre-Moon Syndrome. I.e., horrendous moods that start under the waxing gibbous moon phase and taper off once the full moon's here. Many months it's far worse than the more common PMS (premenstrual syndrome) which I also used to suffer from. This pre-moon phase was an horrific one. However, I went through this PMS week more consciously aware of it's influence than I ever have before. And even managed to continue to eat somewhat healthfully. Photo "Invasion of the Pod People" by Roswila; totally for the humor of it; reminds me of the cover illustrations in those old scifi pulp magazines, which I used to gobble up; certainly a better diet than is my tendency.]

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 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 dreamku is not intended as an interpretation of a dream, or even a complete and accurate rendering of one. A dreamku 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 you may do, that in the beginning I stressed "showing, not telling." However, that 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).

For more in-depth exploration:

-- 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 other blogs: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

ROUND & ROUND SHE GOES... (photo) & PERHAPS (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

PERHAPS

she’d thought she was past this
phase this horrendous ache prying
at the housing of her heart like
meddlesome fingers how could

she forget that little in life is
straight forward instead progressing
in spirals every circling ultimately
rolling over portions of what’s gone

before flattening premature
relief and re-shaping many a
perception it might be
comforting to believe that this

is where one picks up lost
stitches or drops their
weakness all together but she’s
not up to anything more than

riding out the curves thrown with
each turning she takes another
step around the spiral perhaps
this time it’s just the gritty

dust of hope for unfamiliar
territory she kicks up that makes
her cry perhaps


[re-posting of non-dream free verse poem written in October 2011. Photo "Round & Round She Goes..." by Roswila; a brand new re-working of a three and a half year old 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 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 dreamku is not intended as an interpretation of a dream, or even a complete and accurate rendering of one. A dreamku 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 you may do, that in the beginning I stressed "showing, not telling." However, that 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).

For more in-depth exploration:

-- 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 other blogs: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

MOONLIGHT & MIST (photo) & ON THE WAY (dreamku series) by Roswila

ON THE WAY

the elevator's
going up to the locked level
of the hospital
I get on to catch a ride
to an in-between floor

the prince and princess,
already on the lift,
need the secured rooms --
she's about to give birth
and in some sort of danger

he starts to sob at the thought of leaving her there
she sadly notes this is the first time she's seen him cry

then no more prince but
a bouquet of hothouse roses
huge and scentless --
and then no more princess,
but plucked from a distant beach

and wildly scenting the air, one salt mist rose


[two tanka with a two-liner and a monoku on a dream of 7-20-13. BTW, the scent of salt mist roses that grow on sand dunes is heavenly. They're not very big, and the variety I used to see on Block Island, R.I. had maybe five or six petals. On another subject, in case anyone has noticed, yes, I've begun fudging a bit with the requirements of the forms I use in dreamku. Not so much with line and syllable count in any one stanza, though, as having one stanza complete the other grammatically. As above at the end: the last line of the last tanka (five line stanza) is completed grammatically by the monoku (the one line closing). I began doing this recently on occasion simply because it felt right. As I think on it today it may be that I'm wanting more fluidity between some stanza transitions. The sort of movement that enjambment at a line's end encourages. (Yesterday's dreamku demonstrates that desire to "move things along" in the writing.) I'd actually noticed for a long time that keeping each stanza (form) complete unto itself grammatically can all too often make for a sort of stuttering overall read. This issue may also be an additional input into my more frequent writing of free verse dream poems. Going more with the flow, if you will. And that's not actually a bad approach to take in my life these days as a whole. No joke. I should also acknowledge the clear influence of "The Kate Wait" for Britain's next heir to the throne to be born on this dream's imagery at the start. Photo "Moonlight & Mist" 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 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 dreamku is not intended as an interpretation of a dream, or even a complete and accurate rendering of one. A dreamku 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 you may do, that in the beginning I stressed "showing, not telling." However, that 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).

For more in-depth exploration:

-- 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 other blogs: ROSWILA’S TAROT GALLERY & JOURNAL; ROSWILA’S TAIGA TAROT; and TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.