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Friday, July 18, 2014

ROSY FLUSH (photo) & ONE FOR THE BOOKS (dream tanka pair w/two-liner) by Roswila


ONE FOR THE BOOKS

no matter how she
places the pieces in her
3-D construction
the shadows show up a soft
totally improper pink

not that this doesn't
please her wannabe artist's eye
but how can it be?
block light, dark's projected
not lovely pastel rose

this one's for the books (and art boxes
it seems): shadows may come in all colors


[a tanka pair capped by a two-liner on a dream of 7-17-14. I read somewhere once that our psychological shadow (in the Jungian sense) does not always consist of repressed dark/negative aspects that we then project onto others. But that it can occasionally have light/positive aspects, especially in folk with low self-esteem. I'd not have given one red cent when I went to bed last night that I'd have a positive dream like this one. (And there was a dream before this one with the same theme, couched in different less interesting imagery.) Not only am I going to watch -- even more closely, if that's possible -- what I think about other people, but this dream has set a fire under me to do some collage work again. I've already begun to gather the materials for a first go at one in years, with the possible theme/name "Shadows Come in All Colors." Photo "Rosy Flush" (4-29-12 11812ev7) by Roswila]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO DREAMKU (& PHOTOS):

But first, a request: please let me know of any typos or other sorts of blunders in my posts. As my eyes age I'm finding more mistakes are creeping into what I put up here no matter how many times I proof it all. Thanks for any help!

The dream-based poems posted on this blog -- dreamku, tanka, two-liners, monoku, free verse, dream narratives -- 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. (This all applies to any of the non-dream poems posted here, too.)

Also please note that a dream poem or narrative 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. I now tend to "show" (the dream story) 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 also pretty much applies to my free verse dream poems as well. As to what I have begun calling dream narratives, they are a different animal, probably most akin to prose poems.

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.

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