LIGHTER THAN AIR (photo art) & "the pool's smiling..." (non-dream haiku) by Roswila

the pool's smiling, see?
all those dimples when tickled
by the breezes


[non-dream haiku written 8-7-14. Photo art "Lighter Than Air" (9-10-09 6726ev8) 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.

TRAVELING LIGHT (photo) & SHE SAYS (dream tanka) by Roswila

SHE SAYS

take a pic of this ...
no, she blurts, make a video!
it doesn't matter
if it's just thirty seconds long
joy travels at the speed of light


[tanka on a dream image of 8-5-14. This is just one small image from the evening's many dreams. But it seems to encapsulate an underlying feeling to them all. BTW, 30 seconds is the length of video my camera actually takes. Maybe now I'll try taking one. I haven't since I first got the camera years ago. Photo "Traveling Light" (8-15-09 5468v4) 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.

BONES OF THE ROSE (photo art) & FOR A CHANGE (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

FOR A CHANGE

the taste of mouthwash fading,
the smell of books and old carpet
from the open library door behind,
a plane buzzing by like a bluebottle fly,
the sunlight warming exposed arms,
breezes puffing past without pattern
while a familiar step
(one two, one two) wanders by

how pleasant to allow
the gates of the eyes to draw shut


[non-dream free verse poem written June 2014. Photo art "Bones of the Rose" (7-19-14 001v26) 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.

THE FOREVER DANCE (photo art) & ON EMBODIMENT (dream tanka pair w/two-liners) by Roswila

ON EMBODIMENT

the assignment: by embodying them,
revitalize two way over used words --

one

"amazing" is the first
to rise in the dark to accept
its embodiment:
no matter how aged one is
agelessness gambols within

two

blushing teenagers
share a first embrace and kiss,
their joy "literally"
palpable: thumping young breasts
and hot cheeks prompting shy touches

(amazing indeed how embodiment
literally revitalizes)


[a two-liner, two tanka, and another two-liner on a dream of 7-29-14. "Amazing" and "literally" are two words being over used in our society these days. Not surprising they'd show up eventually in a dream. Of course, the dream is about much more than spoken word usage. Or even about improving my dream poems, which I see it referencing. At an important level, it's also about my on-going weight loss (and even once I'm slim). In this context of weight loss, it's about what I actually physically do, not what I think or feel. Much of the time if I waited for my thoughts and feelings to motivate appropriate action I'd be in real trouble. The thing is to take appropriate action, and let the thoughts and feelings be what they may. BTW, I've now lost 65 lbs. Photo art "The Forever Dance" (11-29-09 8391ev4) 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.

OUT OF THE NOWHERE (photo art) & AWAKE ... ASLEEP (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

AWAKE ... ASLEEP

awake ... asleep
left brain ... right brain ... conscious
unconscious ... feeling
thinking sensation intuition:
the psyche fights with itself

it's been said of these curmudgeons
that consciousness ultimately
determines outcome

if this is so it must be by virtue
of peeling the old labels off

of holding the once unacceptable
as perfectly fine:

as the shining of shadows
trailing the expanding universe


[free verse poem inspired by all the recalled dreams of 7-29-14. This started as two somewhat loosely written tanka capped by a pair of two-liners, but slowly morphed into this freer form. BTW, I think it was Carl Jung (the psychologist) who said something to the effect that consciousness ultimately determines outcome. (He developed the concept, among much else, of the four psychological functions of feeling, thinking, sensation, and intuition listed above.) Photo "Out of the Nowhere" (4-15-14 017v5) 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.

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....".

* * * *

‘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.

* * * *

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.