CLOUD COMPUTING (photo art) & MESSAGE FOR THE DREAMER (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

MESSAGE FOR THE DREAMER

look past these blowsy petals
waving the rumpled colors of night,
into the caravan of seeds
at the off-off-center:
there! do you see it?
steadily traversing the unchanging
unknown, crowded with all the wares
of the possible and the won't-ever-be?
now, work while waiting patiently
for this constant caravan that never
arrives and you may someday tap into
a slim surprise of art


[free verse poem on a dream of 5-2-14. I started writing this about a dream image as I was dreaming. And before it started morphing, the dream image itself was very much like the photo of mine above, that I edited yesterday. As I drafted this poem (once awake) it moved way beyond any of the elements I was vaguely chasing in the dream writing. It then occurred to me that, more and more, I'm riding without the training wheels, if you will, of a dream's recalled images/structure. I've always tended to do that in the closing lines of a dream piece. But find now that I'm doing it occasionally even as I first begin recalling the dream and then set pen to paper. Guess that's just a fancy way of saying that my way of writing about dreams may be changing (again). Sigh. I also find, more and more, that once I get behind the appearances of the images/metaphors of my dreams and poems, there's really nothing all that profound. (I may not like hearing some of what's beneath, but it's rarely profound.) It's the image/metaphor forms themselves that give me the pleasure. As if the vessel means more to me than its contents. How odd! But maybe that's one explanation for my enjoyment of poems by others that have no (readily, at least to me) apparent "meaning," but are filled with glorious images. Photo art "Cloud Computing" (4-24-14 003v11) by Roswila]

CELEBRATE OLDER AMERICANS MONTH: MAY 2014!

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers, as the above is), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,

[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
**** 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.

THE EMPTINESS (photo art) & THEIR BUSINESS (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

THEIR BUSINESS

their business now? they seek
out dogs to train to be gentle,
obedient companions

she proudly puts two small
high energy mutts through their paces
in the workout cage, the air laden
with her unexpressed expectation
that I'll now return to the fold

but it's too late for that, my physical
wounds may be healed, the scars
like little dollops of silver, however
that biter should never have been
allowed to stay back then

and failing an admission to me now
of their culpability back then
a simple acknowledgment
that I was wounded could go
a long way toward healing
the deeper bites

yet this will only come to pass
when life on this planet ceases
and I'm stuck here now watching
pride and denial dance with dogs
I can never trust

maybe I'd do better to put my neck
between a raw recruit's glaring teeth
and let it snap away


[free verse poem on a dream of 5-1-14. Photo art "The Emptiness" (8-26-10 10011ev2) by Roswila]


CELEBRATE OLDER AMERICANS MONTH: MAY 2014!

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers, as the above is), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,

[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
**** 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.

ASHES, ASHES (photo art) & WHAT'S THE POINT (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

WHAT'S THE POINT

annoyance at him, masking a deeper
disappointment, flits across her drawn face

yes, I think, he still doesn't get it,
doesn't even really make an effort
to see the point underpinning
everyone of these newly published
two and three word haiku

but does she, or even I, "get it" either?

how many moments have already
died on the vine, their passing
not even noted as I judge her judge him


[free verse poem on a dream of 4-30-14. Photo art "Ashes, Ashes" (8-28-10 10004ev2) by Roswila]

CELEBRATE OLDER AMERICANS MONTH: MAY 2014!

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers, as the above is), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,

[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
**** 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.

DIADEM (photo art) & A PLACE IN THE SUN (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

A PLACE IN THE SUN

large glossy posters of Renaissance Queens
hang on two-side-by-side front doors
glistening in the bright sun from a skylight

the Queen on the right hand door
intones a Shakespearean soliloquy,
while the one on the left winks at me
as if to say her friend is such a ham

I've not seen either of these women
since they moved this far away and note
they're both clearly very happy
in their new homes: neither would ever
have been in a play before, dressed up
and crowned like a pageant winner
for all the world to see on a front door

envy peppered with old angers at these two
women sinks in my stomach like a stone,
quickly leavened by a rising delight:
they've each found a place in the sun


[free verse poem on a dream of 4-27-14. This dream again plays -- pun intended -- with that image of life being a stage. The dream's ending is more evolved than I was when going to sleep, and still is now days after dreaming it. I keep wanting to revise (or even cut) the last two lines to reflect how I felt before the dream and do now. But that would do a disservice to the dream, which was clearly trying to move me along, to "grow me up." Photo art "Diadem" (4-15-14 022v2) by Roswila]

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers, as the above is), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,

[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
**** 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.

GROUND DOWN (photo art), & ON BUSHWHACKS & BELLS (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

ON BUSHWHACKS & BELLS

he requests another decoration
for his Christmas tree from my stash

to honor this tradition I bend over
and rummage through a box
searching for a small ceramic bell
I think he'll like

just as I put my finger on the bell
I'm bushwhacked from behind
by a humongous house cat: one front
paw tightly gripping my right ear
and the other my left shoulder,
while its hind legs clutch my calves

I try to straighten up but it's so
weighty I fall flat on my stomach
to the floor, resisting my urge
to roll over on it as I can feel
its teeth grazing the nape of my neck

instead I try to get on all fours,
but even so it's too heavy and I flop
with a resounding thud on my side
on to the rough grey carpet

what does this dang cat
want from me anyway?
I've heard of having a monkey
on one's back, but a feline?

and how will I ever get out from under
so I can bell this clawed juggernaut


[free verse poem on a dream of 4-28-14. In my dream "vocabulary" cats can represent a variety of things, almost always aspects of myself, ranging from pleasant to difficult. Photo art "Ground Down" (12-3-10 10061ev6) by Roswila]

PLEASE NOTE: in most browsers you can click on the above image for a larger version. Also, the photo accompanying a post is not necessarily meant to illustrate it, but to reflect some small, even slant aspect of the verse, similar to Japanese haiga (illustrated haiku).

There are many other sorts of posts on this blog. I indicate which are about or influenced by dreams. Some non dream focused posts are book reviews, "regular" poems (some by other writers, as the above is), scifaiku, writing exercises, Tarot haiku, photos, haiga, and so on. However, most of those are in much older posts. There's a listing by month going back to early 2006, at the end of the sidebar.

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until next time, keep dreaming,

[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
**** 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.