SPACED (photo art) & NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU (three dream tanka w/two-liner) by Roswila

NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU

it's getting boring
all her bedrooms have had the same
underlying floor plan
even this newest one
into which she abruptly wakes

and boredom can urge
dangerous behavior
upon her
something's got to change ... ooops!
too late, she's started screaming

no way to bottle
it all back up, but maybe
someone will hear her
this time and come to her aid ...
fat chance! alone as always

seems that horror movie quote "No one can hear you
scream in space" applies as well to some bedrooms


[three tanka capped by a two-liner on a dream of 8-7-14. Some of the intensity underlying this dream is due to it being PMS time for me. (As I've said here before I tend to go wonky under the waxing gibbous moon phase, so PMS stands for pre-moon syndrome.) However, PMS by no means fully explains all that's in this dream. It has associations to associations on top of more associations. Like a scream echoing endlessly back and forth across an abyss. BTW, I would not categorize it as a nightmare. It was tolerable, just very unpleasant and unfortunately emotionally all too familiar. Oh, and that quote? It's from that horror/sci-fi movie "Alien," and both that word and movie have dropped a load of associations behind them, too. Photo art "Spaced" (6-24-14 001v9) 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,







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