LAYING IT ON THICK (photo art) & BUT THAT'S JUST IT (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

BUT THAT'S JUST IT

... but that's just it, it's not an "it,"
not a single, solitary issue to be dealt with,
it's a layering of many transparent sticky issues
like an onion, and like a raw stink apple
when it's cut to the core brings tears,
and when swallowed smells out loud
(or am I the only one to catch the drift
of bad breath as the layers digest?)

so here's the point, all my co-workers
would have me believe they want me to stay
on this job, even those who clearly
could not care less and those who don't
even know what's going on and are just
going along with the crowd,
(and those are just their surfaces)

and do I even trust my perceptions
of their disingenuousness,
as here's where I fall down:
even rub me the wrong way
and I raise a stink,
and layers, well,
as many as I see in others
(that and many more) cling tenaciously
like ghostly ectoplasm to my thoughts,
each emitting a clashing imperative

but I'd rather peel a raw onion,
layer by layer any day
than go through
even one more exorcism

my co-workers stress again
they really want me
to stay on this job

I start peeling


[free verse poem based on a dream of 2-7-14. Way too much to even try to go into, even briefly. Suffice it to say this is a rather positive dream. If only that the ultimate focus is more outward for a change. Photo art "Laying It On Thick" (2-8-14 013v2) 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.

MAPPING THE DREAM (photo art) & "why this dream visit..." (dream tanka) by Roswila

why this dream visit,
especially your subtle push
to eat the wrong food ...
guess this'll keep going on until
I'm able to fix my fire alarm


[tanka on a dream of 2-6-14. I associate this inoperative fire alarm to the expression "poor bull s--t detector." And I hear this dream warning me that my "b.s. detector" is still not in good operating order. Sigh. I've done lots of work over the years on it. And given my highly intuitive nature have always found it odd that this would be necessary. But we all have our blind spots and I guess one of mine is still considerable enough to merit this dream alarum. I hasten to add that I might be b.s.'ing myself and that's even harder to detect than when someone else is. (BTW, both my actual fire alarms are working and I have the batteries changed once a year. So there's no warning here on a concrete level.) Photo art "Mapping the Dream" (9-15-14 018v4) 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.

IMPRINTING (photo art) & WHY SHE STILL COLORS OUTSIDE THE LINES (dream influenced free verse poem) by Roswila

WHY SHE STILL COLORS OUTSIDE THE LINES

when crazy by any of the rules inscribed
in the early neuronal years like graffiti writ large
in wet concrete by the moving fingers of the gods,
and when so far from ever matching up to
the long hardened edicts on the walls of every
echoing retreat, where else is there to run to
but outside a box so crowded with commands
and judgments, circling, circling, like vultures
above the last war on a dying planet?
where else indeed, when outside's at least
conceivably unlike anything else:
a place where alone floats on and on, shaping
and unshaping and reshaping again
through the endless dark, hovered over only
by the vastly distant and unknowing stars


[free verse poem influenced by all dreams of 2-5-14. Although neither the narrative nor any of the imagery in this poem is from my extremely busy dreams last night, the feeling level is totally faithful to an underlying thread that ran throughout the evening's dreams. Photo art "Imprinting" (1-29-14 005v7) 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.

HAIR-RAISING (photo art) & OF LAUNDRY & LEASHES (dream narrative) by Roswila

OF LAUNDRY & LEASHES

my father and a vague young man
separate the two small fighting dogs,
no sooner pulled apart than one
of the growling creatures
runs over to me where I sit
on the edge of my bed, piled high
with unfolded just washed laundry

the pale grey wolf-like dog continues
to growl as it tries again and again
to scramble up on to the bed
next to me

ever since childhood I've feared
the sound of a growling dog,
but this time I don't suffer in silence
afraid to insult my father who chose
the dog back then and probably
also this time, but speak right up
and ask him to "Please,
leash this animal!"

he quickly steps forward as if it hadn't
occurred to him that the dog's leaping
and vocalizing were hostile or at the very
least scary to me, and firmly grabs
the dog by the collar buried in its thick
silvery fur, snapping a leash to it

no sooner do I sigh with relief that I
and my mounds of clean laundry
are safe, but the dog approaches
me again from the end of his long lead

he sits placidly at my feet for all
the world like my new best friend,
his muzzle on his front paws,
looking soulfully up at me
with shiny midnight eyes

"Why does this always happen to me?"
I say to my father "...what I fearfully reject
comes right back in some other form ...
how can I ever learn to trust?"


[narrative on a dream of 2-4-14. It was my actual father in this dream and there was an actual childhood incident with a new dog for our family he brought home that growled at me. This dream is really rather positive. Those two dogs are "fighting" aspects of myself (there are many such pairs I'm afraid). That the most obstreperous aspect was "leashed" feels really hopeful. There's a lot more in this dream, but I'll leave it at this. Photo art "Hair-Raising" (4-25-11 10768ev8) 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....".

* * * *

‘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.

FLAMING OUT (photo art) & ESCAPE ARTIST (dreamku series) by Roswila

ESCAPE ARTIST

first, she tries leaving
on one of the regularly
scheduled free van trips
but its route doesn't go
far enough to meet her need

oh, the driver's sweet
and helpful but nice won't get her
where she burns to go

then she imagines
a large hot air balloon
and suddenly, there,
in the air above the city street
floats a passenger balloon

"Can I afford this,"
she thinks, just as an old man
floats by the balloon
tangling himself up in its ropes
and bringing it down in flames

"What now," she maunders,
"click my heels three times and be
whisked far away?"
no such luck nor magic here,
would thumbing for a ride work?

or maybe singing
for her supper, or fiddling
while all of Rome burns?

"Now I'm just getting
silly," she thinks, "those expressions
don't even apply"
better she try to buy her
girlfriend's help with a good book

intellect always
engaged her support in the past
but the only tome
she has to ply her friend with
weighs too much and just won't fly

and flying away
is what she's itching to do
as she did before,
despite now knowing that even
burning all bridges won't free her

and that's enough of playing with words, after all,
the escape they offer's at best just temporary


[several tanka with a couple dreamku interspersed, capped by a two-liner, on a dream of 2-3-14. Photo art "Flaming Out" (6-15-11 11127v3) 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....".

* * * *

‘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.

APRISCOTING (photo art) & THE BIGGER PROBLEM (dream narrative) by Roswila

THE BIGGER PROBLEM

she leaves me in the passenger
seat of the car, the driver side door
slamming behind her in her haste
to explore up close a new bright
colored complex of buildings
in our neighborhood

even as she becomes a silhouette
in the twilight against the ambitious
orange of the buildings the car
I wait in begins to roll
backward from the curb

oh no! I still haven't learned how
to drive and it's picking up speed
I fling my left leg over the divider
between the bucket seats, aiming
for the brake and, of course, I hit
the accelerator and the vehicle
jumps forward

even as I thrash my foot around
trying to find the brake, I lower
the window and start yelling
"Police! Police! Get the police!
I don't know how to drive!"

finally! my blind flailing finds
the brake and my runaway ride
starts to slow, but I have to stomp
and hold the brake to the floor,
my foot aching, the car taking
centuries it seems to fully stop
askew a narrow concrete meridian

I can barely speak as cops surround
the car, my voice a ghostly whisper
in the now fully settled night

after the lead policeman hears me out
he puts one hand on the car to lean in
toward me, the other on his holstered gun,
and says looking down and away,
"Your bigger problem's that windshield
of inward facing mirror"


[narrative on a dream of 2-2-14. One of those more than usually chock-full dreams. "Complex" as in psychological complex? Fear of being out of control? And the color orange has several levels of meaning (which color I saw in the dream, that being somewhat unusual for me). Etc., etc. But that mirrored windshield is a corker of an image. Ultimately the dream seems to be saying the biggest problem is I'm still only seeing my own reflection. And don't get me started on it being the "windshield" that's mirrored! Ack. Well, I asked my dreams for help as I went to sleep last night and this is what was offered. Not all medicine is nice tasting or easy to swallow. Photo art "Apriscoting" (9-23-14 004v3) 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....".

* * * *

‘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.

IMAGO (photo art) & "gray skies..." (non-dream monoku) by Roswila

gray skies my cyan sweater prayer for rain


[non-dream monoku (one line haiku) written 2-2-14. I'm posting this more because of the prayer it contains than because I'm content with it as a monoku. The drought here in California is rather worrisome, to say the least. Meteorologists here keep saying the recent turn toward wintery weather -- by CA standards, not by what the rest of our country's been going through -- is a good sign. In the meantime, we keep conserving as much water as we can. And pray, and do rain dances. Those of us who can still dance, that is. :-D Photo art "Imago" (5-13-10 10015ev3) 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....".

* * * *

‘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.