RAIN DANCE (photomorph) & DISEXISTESSENTIALISM (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

DISEXISTESSENTIALISM*

she denies writing
the letter criticizing
the photo art style
"Disexistessentialism,"
though I saw her typing it

more disturbing than her denial, her intense
scorn for my interest in the art form

I seek the safety
of my room and find that odd man
staring at my stuff,
I'd left it spread on the bed
forgetting he'd be sleeping there

he'd invited himself, not hearing my "no,"
acting as if he were a prince of the blood

sigh, I'd do better
to pay attention to what's
at hand to be done:
shunting that rain leaking in my
window, to the outside runoff

when an inside need
of the moment conflicts
with an outside one
a flood of denial prevents
many a dreaded drought


[tanka series with two interspersed two-liners on a dream of 12-8-14 (posted 12-9-14). *A word from the dream, said: DIS-ex-IST-e-SSEN-tialism." Given the meanings of the two words in it and their prefix, I think of it now as meaning psychological denial. Though in the dream it was simply the name of an art style, the pronunciation of which I kept forgetting. In a way, psychological denial is an art form. Its meaning comes from how it's applied and then viewed. Photomorph "Rain Dance" (12-7-14 005v4) & Poem by Patricia Kelly (C) 2014]

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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