OVER OUR HEADS (photomorph) & LEARNING TO CONVERSE (mostly tanka 2-part dream poem) by Roswila

LEARNING TO CONVERSE

dream one:

I overhear my friend
describe how critical our
mutual friend
had been, and finally know
why we three don't talk anymore

but comprehend, too,
it's really a matter of our
different values
and holding to those beliefs so
tightly as to be merged with them

leaving no room between for novelty,
for invigoration, for friendship


dream two:

his first son's mature
and so subdued for a pre-teen
his second son's, well,
what you might then expect
the rapscallion rebel

large cartoon bubbles
loom over each of their heads
waiting for the script
then vanish -- will the boys
now speak for themselves?


[two dream poems (all tanka, except for two-liner at end of first) on two separate dreams of 2-19-15. Usually a connection is much clearer between any two (or more) dreams of an evening. In this case the only one I can find (other than the overall topics of relationships and communication) is how different people are from each other. I also feel that the second dream sort of went back in time from the first. There's a lot more in these dreams that I'll hopefully realize later as they rumble around while I go about my day. Ah, just caught something by the edge: the issue of what our sometimes skewed perceptions of others impose upon our relationships with them. Photomorph "Over Our Heads" (2-18-15 011v7) 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,







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