RENEWAL (photo) & MIRACLE HOOK-UP (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

MIRACLE HOOK-UP

my many, many years younger
would-be-lover ...
how can this be true?
such a delightful young man
comforting and poetic
"Don't let my father know"
he whispers in a clutch
"I'll slowly bring him on board
about your age..." but I know
there's another chasm to bridge
one I can barely
acknowledge myself,
the unleapable gulf
between living and dead,
for my miracle hook-up's
with someone no longer living
my age? but a minuscule crinkle in time
his death? an unending rent in its very fabric
yet we go on, fervor weaving us ever closer


[free verse poem on a dream of 9-26-14. (This was initially a tanka series with a two-liner and monoku, but it needed to be freed up a bit.) Lest this be read as necromantic yearnings (LOL), the lover was a T.V. character just recently killed off. Of course, my dreaming mind chose him for particular reasons which in drafting this poem have become more and more clear to me. And the many ways of understanding this dream as a whole may all be true at once. Not unusual in dream work. Lastly, as I've said here before about a dream, it's about a process internal to my own psyche. I.e., not about specific external/waking events. Photo "Renewal" (8-10-14 008v2) 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.

THE SQUALL (photomorph) & "by lightning's flash..." (dreamku) by Roswila

by the lightning's flash:
a wolf staring straight at us
dripping with silver


[dreamku on a dream of 9-25-14. I was already writing this in my mind as I woke from this dream image. I did some quick Googling re: wolf symbolism. Lots of interesting (much of it very positive) info. What struck me as most immediately applicable, however, is to keep paying attention to the issue of my cravings. I.e., how I'm eating, and more importantly want to eat which has become troublesome after a year of relatively peaceful weight loss. I was reminded as well that the wolf is a lunar symbol and as such for me relates to intuition. (The silver in this image supports this lunar symbolism. And with the lightning is like a pairing of The Tower and Moon cards in the Tarot.) It was also interesting to learn that the highly intelligent wolf uses eye contact as one of its ways to communicate. Last, I have been in the middle of an on-going emotional storm and am delighted this dream wolf made sure I saw it last night. I feel more grounded again in my familiar and preferred lunar (intuitive, right brain) world. Yup, that's an odd pairing -- grounded and lunar -- but that does describe my experience. Photomorph "The Squall" (8-22-14 002v15f) 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.

DECISION POINT (photo) & SOME DECISIONS (dream tanka series w/2-liner) by Roswila

SOME DECISIONS

some decisions
slice like a tornado
of paper cuts
I must leave my injured friend
here in the bone dry desert

how else shall I
seek water for her, for me?
otherwise, we both
go down beneath the dust,
the heavy wind-whipped sands

and more painful yet
I must take the little water
we do have with me:
unlike this camel offering
a ride, I'm not a desert creature

of all the unknowns
I've known across the years
that led to this point
I have the least to go on,
to guide a decision by

leaving my injured friend alone while I trust this
strange camel? a heavy burden for such a fragile pass


[tanka series capped by a two-liner on a dream of 9-24-14. Yes, a heavy dream. At one level, it may be suggesting that I leave my understanding of myself as injured or wounded, and move on not knowing what it will be like. Taking what feels like and may very well be a tremendous risk. While knowing doing nothing is also hugely risky. The camel is (at one level) a symbol for intuition. The Hebrew letter often associated with The High Priestess card in The Tarot is "Gimel," which in noun form means camel. A common flag word for Her is "intuition." You can see a camel in this Thoth Tarot High Priestess card at the bottom middle edge:

Photo at top of post: "Decision Point" (9-20-14 034v6) 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.

LAWN WORK (photo) & "drought dry lawn..." (non-dream monoku) by Roswila

drought dry lawn sandy beach in serene morning light


[non-dream monoku haiku written 9-21-14. This monoku (one line haiku) was written a couple days ago. When I decided this morning to try to get a shot of the dry lawn to accompany it, I was surprised to find men at work. The only evidence of this in the photo above is that orange cone by a small hole (other cones and workers digging another hole were out of frame on the left). This lawn used to be watered by someone with a hose and it's a much larger lawn than this photo indicates. The sprinklers being installed will not only eliminate that lengthy labor on the part of one of our community's residents, but conserve on water. And all of this said pretty much drowns out (pun not intended) my attempt in this monoku to share a change in perception and therefore experience. Though I hasten to add I was not thinking of that when I wrote it. I was just trying to get down what the totally dried out lawn had suddenly suggested as I sat quietly looking at it and thinking of nothing in particular. Photo "Lawn Work" (9-24-14 008v2) 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.

AROMA OF THE ROSE (photomorph) & ON SERIAL KINDNESS (dream tanka series) by Roswila

ON SERIAL KINDNESS

neighboring women
are receiving gifts of flowers,
serial kindness --
the doorbell startles me
as I've assumed I won't be gifted

a neighbor lady
hands me a huge single
brilliantly red rose
the other women with her
oooh and aaah at its beauty

my delight's quickly
dashed when they realize
I'm the wrong person --
this gift is meant for the lady
living at the end of the block

they turn away
taking the rose with them
leaving only shards
from a broken moment
of kindness and hope shot down


[tanka series on a dream of 9-22-14. Photomorph "Aroma of the Rose" (8-23-09 5990v5) 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.

COMING APART (photomorph) & ON SLOWING DOWN (dream tanka series w/2-liner) by Roswila

ON SLOWING DOWN

why's she hanging back
behind me and her husband
wherever we go?
she's as much a part of this
important effort as we

and she's well aware
nothing inappropriate's
going on between us --
I make an impulsive choice
to slow down and check with her

it's really so odd
there's no evidence at all
of her trademark humor
and though she looks younger close up
she also seems much heavier

something's awry,
maybe not rotten in Denmark
but quite off kilter --
I signal to her husband
to also match her torpid pace

if the wheels of progress have to be further slowed
so be it, this woman needs our caring attention


[tanka series capped by a two-liner on a dream of 9-21-14. This dream is about a process totally internal to my own psyche. It also contains very timely advice. Photomorph "Coming Apart" (10-3-14 7266ev4a) 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 EDGE (photomorph) & YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW (dream tanka series w/2-liner) by Roswila

YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW**

they've no idea,
and neither do I, why this WAVES*
gal insists on me
but recruited I've been
and I'm in the navy now

even though it turns out
it wasn't me she wanted
it's a fait accompli
and steady, free travel work
is nothing to sneeze at

the next demand from
this higher ranked WAVES woman
is right to my face,
direct and undeniable:
to baby sit for her infant

I really don't mind
I've seen her dark haired baby,
tiny and curious,
it will be a delight
fulfilling this assignment

but I won't take her
infant girl to the jungle's edge
as she's ordered,
just carrying her safely through
the subway's adventure enough

this new little life is in my care now
and my way of caring it will be


[tanka series capped by a two-liner on a dream of 9-20-14. *WAVES = in the early 1940's, "Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service" (before women gained permanent status in the Navy in 1948). **You're in the navy now = my slight dream re-write of the lyrics to the war song "You're in the army now..." These military dream metaphors were certainly influenced by having watched the Ken Burns PBS T.V. film series "The Roosevelts," with all its war photos and film footage. I also find it interesting that the time period this dream references via its choice of images, is of the years just before, during, and after my birth. At one level, a wish I could re-parent myself? Am I doing so in some ways already? I also think a recognition I came to gradually while watching this T.V. series is hidden in this dream. I have been brought to a deeper and more compassionate awareness of the events that were deeply and permanently impacting my family's life, from grandparents to parents, uncles, etc. Oy, I'll have to stop here. This is a dream poem, not a history review. Photomorph "At the Edge" (8-16-14 024v8a) 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.