HOT TIDE (photo) & THROUGH A STEAMPUNK SPY GLASS (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

THROUGH A STEAMPUNK SPY GLASS

another night of x-rated dreams!
perhaps I should let the experimenter
whose hijacking my pen these days
have her way and leave the bulk
of nattering narrative to the netherworld,
glimpses through a steampunk spy glass
should be in keeping with the tone, methinks:

-- dream one --
tall, slim, not dark nor handsome,
he wears his pride in being a successful
comedian a bit too obviously, like his
shiny stove pipe hat, but his body's
still warm and delightfully
insistent against hers

-- dream two --
at first he's determined to rescue
her by air balloon from the foundering
pirate galleon and ravish her
on firmer ground, but sometimes
it's better to go down
with the ship

-- dream three --
she almost kicks the dark gong
peeking out from under the lacey
comforter as they fall upon the bed,
it's good she missed,
who wants a wake up call just as he
buries his devilish grin in her lush
and fully freed bosoms


[free verse poem on a series dreams of 9-6-13. No comment, except that it was a fun night after the previous night's series of intense dreams. I have one more dream poem to post from that previous night, but wanted to share this one first. I'm clearly still experimenting with how I present the dream material in writing. Basically, letting the piece (whatever it may be called, prose or poetry or some other creature) tell me how to format it on the page as the drafting proceeds. F.Y.I. = "Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan 'What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner.'" And let me add that there are always a lot of clever and odd machines and devices abounding (often worn by people). When I googled for a decent definition of steampunk, that quote I underlined really struck me as applying to this night of dreams. (And that's all the detail you'll get out of me. LOL.) BTW, I have and greatly enjoy "The Steampunk Tarot," the one by B. Moore & A. Fell. Photo "Hot Tide" (9-7-13) 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.

DROPPING THE VEILS (photo) & BENEATH THEM ALL (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

BENEATH THEM ALL

she chips layers and layers of masks away
the painted plaster rains down in murky
rainbow colored chunks

an eyeless blank white form
begins to appear beneath them all
maybe it needs poetry to complete it
but she stays the anxious urge

this time she'll let
the face-shaped form
emerge from the dust
brush pens ink paint
will not touch it

not until it's fully freed
and speaking
for itself


[free verse poem on a dream of 9-5-13. This was one of the last dreams of the night, a very busy dream night. Tomorrow I'll probably post the lengthy one I had very early in the evening. It, too, addresses (albeit in a very different fashion) the issue of letting go of attempts to control (among other things). Both dreams are more than usually welcome. I'd determined in my evening journal work to ask my dreams for help, as I was feeling stuck about how to proceed with that particular effort. Although I forgot to incubate a dream (i.e., consciously ask for help or response from a dream as one goes to sleep), clearly my dream world got the message anyway. I hear this dream suggesting I not so much do anything, as wait. That whatever is stuck will emerge and "speak." It also supports all the work I've been doing "unmasking" myself in that journal work. Peeling, exfoliating, chipping away the obfuscating, the misguided, the pretentious layers. Photo "Dropping the Veils" (9-5-13) 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.

HEATING UP (photo) & ALL IN A NIGHT'S PLEASURE (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

ALL IN A NIGHT'S PLEASURE

so two nights in a row, what's up with that?
desire's embers? loneliness? visitations?
who'd think lovers would seek me out
at all much less two evenings running
of course hot weather and sexual desire
each make quite reasonable metaphors
for the other -- as I twist about in the dream
(and from the morning evidence, stick
to my hot sheets) I enjoy another night's
choice of metaphor and on waking
think why even delve beyond the body
memory of the pleasure for its hidden
significance -- was it the Buddha
who said to live in the moment?


[free verse poem on a dream of 9-4-13. I mentioned yesterday that I hesitate to post dream poems with scatalogical images. Sexual imagery is another that can give me a little pause. Not about writing and posting, but about how graphic should I be? I always fall on the side of "not very." I just suggest the scene and let the reader fill in the rest. In this case, however, I didn't have to wrestle with how much to say in the slightest. Too much else had already grabbed my conscious interest. I.e., that heat and sexual desire can be seen as metaphors for each other, and the urge for once not to look beyond the actual experience for its "significance." By the way, it's a known phenomenon that being too warm while sleeping can sometimes precipitate sexual dreams. I should also add that just like any other dream image, a sexual one may very well be metaphorical. Not about sex at all, or only tangentially so. Photo "Heating Up" (6-30-11) 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.

TWISTED (photo) & BY ANY NAME IT'S STILL BULL PUCKEY (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

BY ANY NAME IT'S STILL BULL PUCKEY

the smell of human excrement much
less the sight of steaming piles simply
does her in especially when everyone
else denies they're dumps at all

so when she's arrested for a crime against
the social mileue she's totally befuddled

it seems even tip-toeing silently around
the piles of B.S. lining the subway platform
(while coping with nausea and bad knees,
no less) will not suffice with these deniers

one must openly welcome and praise these
dumps as if they were generous scoops
of ice cream after all they're from an oh-
so-popular and well-connected donor


[free verse poem based on a dream of 9-2-13. I hasten to add that this dream ultimately pointed me to my own B.S. Not a pleasant thought, to put it mildly. However dreams aren't about being nice and painting pretty pictures, but sometimes offering up the rather unpleasant truth. I also have to admit to being squeamish about posting this one. Not for what it was saying to me personally, but simply because it's image is scatalogical. Very few things give me pause when thinking of posting them to this public forum but this is one. However, the scatological image was valuable. The dream's deeper implications, i.e. my own bull puckey, might not have gotten my attention otherwise. Photo "Twisted" (7-3-13) 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.

DANCE OF THE DIDJERIDUS (photo) & GLASS DIDJERIDU (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

GLASS DIDJERIDU

The Golden Wizard of the depths suggests
(but you know wizards, it's really a demand)
that I go diving to retrieve my didjeridus

noticing the compulsion to dive and shrugging
it off as "business as usual" I swim down and down
and down to the bottom of the pool's rather more
than usually deep end

and what should my water washed eyes not see but
didjeridus, just three wizards -- the aforementioned
golden one (a color he sees only in his own
mind's eye I'm afraid),

one dark-haired charmer with a smile so bright
it refracts in waving patterns through
the light aqua water, and

a third all in shadow turned away from the
other two as if having more important things
to contemplate than casting spells to stay
here underwater

then as if propelled by a spell I'm at the edge
of the sunlit pool again with one of my favorite
didjeridus, all water logged, its wood starting
to shred sadly by mouthpiece and bell

although it's certain any of my others will be
in the same sorrowful condition (didjeridus
like baths as much as anyone, but not being
downed for an unseemly time) all I do is think
of diving again and another didjeridu appears

but of course this didj is also way too soggy
for any sort of repair that would enable it to sing
again not even the magic abounding by this pool

hey, I think, I have not even felt like playing
a didj in years, it's all that blasted golden wizard's
fault I made that dive ... but it's too late I've
already got the urge to access deep sonorous sounds
and feel the long vibrations in my body and hands
once more as I play a didjeridu

maybe I'll order one of PVC pipe or better yet, bite
the financial bullet and get another crystal one
like the one I gave away so many years ago not
able to afford shipping it (and so much else)
to my new home

yes, crystal, painted with sinuous colorful mosaic-
cum-aboriginal designs -- yes, glass cannot get soggy
and the cost may now be far less than not
responding to this urgent call to feel the depths
pouring into my veins stirred by ancient harmonics,
even if I've been magicked into it


[free verse dream poem on a dream of 9-2-13. Here's a link to an old post of mine about didjeridus, at the top of which is a link to a site where you can listen to and watch some agave didj's being played: didj music. The term "bell" at the end of the sixth stanza references the flaring shape some didj's have at their ends. BTW, I do still have two didj's, one agave and one bamboo. I had six didjerdus back in New York City (among which were a "crystal" one and two PVC's), all of which I gave away on moving here except the agave. I bought the bamboo a short time after moving here. As to the really long poems I'm writing these days: I don't know why. Like my experimenting with form, length of both poem and lines seems to be up for exploration as well. Photo "Dance of the Didjeridus" (4-16-10) 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.

JALAMA BEACH (photo) & IMAGINE THIS (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

IMAGINE THIS

she's hired to paint oil
pastels in photo realistic style
on the back walls of panoramic
life-size walk-in scenes -- the boss
crows about a new customer a very
wealthy young family who's paying
through the nose for the biggest
panorama ever: a simple but
exacting wide ocean view
from a spreading dark wood
beach house -- its construction
proceeds rapidly (after all they're
receiving a staggering pay load for
it) even though the boss insists
they not stop or even slow
work on several other
smaller projects -- she
harbors a deep concern that
the quality of these other projects
is suffering and when the rich family
who ordered the beach scene arrives
she herds them away from the
smaller panoramas to their
own: glowing in the late
afternoon sun it stands
completed already awaiting
only a family to explore it's wide
and overarching beach view -- the youngest
son rushes into the foreground to stand by the
open sliding glass doors of the modern beach house
exclaiming with the kind of verve only a child
can have "It's exactly like real!" gesturing
excitedly first to his family then to
the far distant sky painted so
carefully in pastels that is seems
to promise a sunset and then stars as
it sings into infinity on either side -- the boy
stands awed into silence backed by the rest
of his speechless family -- imagination
once given a home knows no bounds

[free verse poem on a dream of 9-1-13. After I wrote this I began to wonder at the implied high cost of giving a home to imagination. I was disturbed but thought, hey, it's not been an easy road for me and my imagination. Then it hit me, that's taking the metaphor too literally (if that isn't a contradiction in terms, lol) and that the cost/wealth referred to may represent the richness of imagination. Now, as I type this, I think both are contained in the metaphor. And that boss is quite the ego, isn't he? Doing the coordination, and all full of himself. While what he supervises the production of ultimately turns out to be something much more once inhabited. Hm. Gives me pause, lots of pause. A note on the form: just fooling around again. As I drafted this piece it began to echo the in and out of waves at ocean's edge so I went with that. Photo "Jalama Beach" (8-1-09) 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.

DRAWING THE LINE (photo) & [untitled] (non-dream poem) by Roswila

was there a long ago moment
in which she yanked all
of herself back inside
like a shocked turtle
or did retreat come gradually
like light nudged back
by night's persistence
no matter, she'd best stay out
of sight all together -- shadows
offer their own integrity
and rumor has it the deepest sea
life requires no sunlight
at all to grow


[free verse non-dream poem of late August 2013. Photo "Drawing the Line" 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.