LEAPING DOLPHIN (photo art) & BREACHING (dream tanka series w/pair of two-liners) by Roswila

BREACHING

the young man's idea
for a new society's grand
so she'd gone along ...
at first ... but soon realized
the idea and the man don't match

typical, she'd thought,
at least this time she was out of there
really early on
way before she'd given her mind
over to another's machinations

the wake up moment?
the news of this whale farm
she stands viewing
created to protect the babies
'til they're big enough for open seas

their parents also
residing here to teach the calves
and therein lies the rub:
in the enclosed space the adults
could unwittingly squash their babes

humans intervene
temporarily altering
the parents' genes
morphing them into a smaller
white dolphin-sized form

slim burgundy stripes
mixed with gold and warm brown
running from their heads
to their tails, with each adults'
lines as unique as a name

the time to be spent
in containment now safe
for the growing calves --
a respectable application
of human smarts and will, she thinks

the day of release into the open seas
will be rather a mixed joy for humans

nevertheless she starts to make plans to be here
a calf breaches the shining water for the first time


[tanka series capped by a pair of two-liners on a dream of 8-1-14. This was the first of many dreams last night with images of newness. Not only did it contain the most interesting image (IMHO) it was the only one to contrast thinking/external to feeling/internal. It also gave the process of becoming a form -- appropriate containment and adjustment of proportions/perspective. The rest of the night's dreams (filled with babies, pregnancies, and polar bears -- that last takes too much to explain here) focused more on what's generating the newness. Most probably all the shadow work I've been doing for some time. In any case, I can still clearly see those genetically altered parental whales in this dream. They were quite a lovely surprise, as was the breaching baby. Photo art "Leaping Dolphin" (4-15-14 001v4b) 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.

THE BASKET (photo art) & A TISKET A TASKET (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

A TISKET A TASKET

where's the woven basket
at the center of the circle
of reaching arms?
without it, there's nothing
to contain the living picture

the image sought in each moment
impossible to capture at all
as it falls through the emptiness
not even a ghostly wisp abiding
without the basket's weave


[free verse poem on a dream of 7-31-14. When I drafted this in pencil, still half asleep, it was in the form of a tanka capped by a pair of two-liners. But once I saw it on my computer screen it nudged me to try changing the "stanza" breaks and to loosen up the writing. The first five lines are still as I initially drafted them (in already somewhat loose tanka form). But the capping pair of two-liners are opened up and out, saying the same things but expanded. It seems that the tanka and two line forms have acted in this case as a basket for the poem's ingredients. Photo art "The Basket" (10-26-12 12223ev6) 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.

LAST BLUSH (photo) & "bedraggled roses..." (non-dream haiku) by Roswila

bedraggled roses
shed the last of their beauty
the wind blushes


[non-dream haiku written 7-31-14. Photo "Last Blush" (4-15-14 046v2) 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.

* * * *

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.

LAYERING (photo) & "writing a haiku ..." (non-dream tanka) by Roswila

writing a haiku
can encourage a certain
state of mind, she says
true to her hesitant words
the clouds rest on the mountains



[non-dream tanka written 7-26-14. Photo "Layering" (1-23-10 19164e) 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.

* * * *

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.

WAITING IN THE WINGS (photo art) & THE LAST WORD (dream tanka series) by Roswila

THE LAST WORD

the play's the thing
for sure, the only thing,
our costumes are pressed
and hung in shared dressing rooms
and our lines memorized

the star of the play,
a famous woman, arrives
to adulation
from other cast members as she
enters her private dressing room

she'll have a long wait
the opening's been put off
but my wait will be
longest of all as my minor
character doesn't speak 'til the end

but the bigger
problem, the one I ponder
as I pace backstage?
having the last word's no fun
at all if everything's scripted


[tanka series on a dream of 7-28-14. This one of those dreams that, as soon as I tugged at it, revealed many different strands. Some contrasting, even paradoxical. Yet all applicable, and a few simply asking questions. And that last may be the dream's most salient point: question what I learn, what I believe I know. Photo art "Waiting in the Wings" (7-20-14 020v8) 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.

AT THE CROSSROADS (photo) & THIS NEWEST DOOR (dream tanka series) by Roswila

THIS NEWEST DOOR

why does he now want
a Tarot reading from me?
it's been many years
since he dropped our friendship
with a reverberating thud

he's even started
shuffling the cards and, as always,
curiosity grabs me:
what will be revealed when I
lay out their opening faces

but he lays them out
himself, all higgledy-
piggledy, their black backs
facing blankly up, waiting for me
to go ahead and flip them

agitation rising
he stares at the dark unknowns
as I've not finished
making the final most important
card, the hinge for the reading

this can't be rushed
the paint on the emerging scene
dries as I cut out
the narrow black and white piece
to be pasted just off center

the last card's colors
dry, scintillating like trees
in windy sunlight,
the pasted on black and white strip
fitting in like an open door

he suddenly backs off
holding his hands as if they hurt:
if laying out cards
was too hard, how will he ever
walk through this newest door


[tanka series on a dream of 7-27-14. There's a lot that strikes me in this dream. To share just one of the strands I've already followed down: that expression "laying one's cards on the table" as in to be open or honest, or as in the current idiomatic use of the word "transparent." (BTW, there's a transparent Tarot. Seriously. I have it in my collection but it was not the deck I saw in the dream.) However, openness and honesty are only the beginning. One still must (to use another idiomatic expression vaguely implied at the end) "walk one's talk." And as ever I add the reminder that this dream speaks as much to me, as to that actual erstwhile friend. Oh, and Tarot cards are sometimes referred to as doors (also keys). Photo "At the Crossroads" (7-20-14 012v2) 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.

DROPLET (photo art) & AH... (dream tanka series) by Roswila

AH...

you can't stash bubbles
no matter how hard you try
in fact the more you
work at capturing their roundness
the faster they implode
the quicker they collapse
back into the ground of being
from which they floated
whether moments out of night dreams
or the walking dream of daily life
it's all bubbles
and their nature is to pop
to offer the beauty
of their reflective faces up
just long enough for your "Ah..."


[three tanka (run together) inspired by the dreams of 7-26-14. Once I'd given myself the OK to write tanka in a less strict syllable count form, I found myself wondering if I could get rid of the space between each tanka in a series when it seemed needful. I.e. until today I've always set the five lines of a tanka apart with a blank line. But as I was drafting "AH..." this morning I decided not to keep popping the bubble of the overall piece with the intrusion of a blank space. So the way it is now, at least for me, it doesn't pop until the "Ah..." BTW, the bubble image was not in any of the dreams (that I can recall) but came to me as I was pondering how even more ephemeral my dreams had seemed last night than usual. Photo art "Droplet" (8-23-09 5998v6d) 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.