FUCHSIA FLASHES (photo) & IN A TRICE (three non-dream haiku) by Roswila

IN A TRICE

doors open and shut
in the distance -- sunlight glides
across the garden

* * * * * * * *

that noisy old crow!
he's taken my train of thought
right along with him

* * * * * * * *

sporting the sky
and my delight in their fronds
palms palms everywhere

* * * * * * * *


[three non-dream haiku written 7-6-15. Photo "Fuchsia Flashes" (4-19-13 12551e) 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.

IN SEARCH OF A POEM (photomorph) & IT'S TOO LATE (tanka series) by Roswila

IT'S TOO LATE*

my teenaged brother
hooks my attention with his
deeply thoughtful mien
I realize I've never asked
what he thinks about at length
it's almost as if
I've never really gotten
to know him at all
and so I inquire what thoughts
tend to wander though his mind
"Nothing much, really,
and a lot of what there is,
forbidden" he says
I figure I've asked the wrong
question and try again:
"Do you think you will
want to write poetry again?"
he quickly responds
"No, but I can always start
again any time if I should"
I wonder why he
ever stopped, and how he knows
he can start again,
hasn't that train already left
the station and a long time ago?


[tanka series, run together, on a dream of 7-9-15. *Title to the song by Carole King, that I woke up singing bits of the chorus from: "And it's too late, baby now, it's too late, // Though we really did try to make it." FYI, my younger brother, from whom I'd been estranged for years, died about year and a half ago. This dream expresses (among other things) something I'd not been aware I felt: how little I really knew him even when we'd been friends. BTW, he did write poetry, decades back. But as far as I know stopped writing for good somewhere along the way. Photomorph "In Search of A Poem" (5-16-11 10977v3a) 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.

WHERE'S THE BOUNDARY? (photomorph) & TRIGGER FINGER (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

TRIGGER FINGER

he wishes to know
where I got my second pair
of bright pink slippers,
then stands close behind me
as I point through the doorway

the trajectory
of my index finger leads
to a dark salesman
across the wide urban street,
as the man behind me moves closer

"Had my finger been
a gun he'd be dead," I say,
quite blunt but honest,
and honestly not wanting to deal
with this encroaching man behind

he's now very close
to fully embracing me,
the heat between us
engulfing as I take aim
with my finger at another male

"Seriously, he would have been a goner, too,"
I say when the man behind hugs me tight at last

and I realize it's no wonder he took this backward
approach when faced with my itchy trigger finger


[tanka series capped by two two-liners on a dream of 7-7-15. Love it when dream images are puns. "Slippers" can be a metaphor for "slip ups." And that play on trigger finger made me laugh when I woke. Of course, this dream has its serious levels. But the humor made the medicine go down a bit easier as I drafted this dream piece. BTW, I rarely only think on a dream. I almost always write about it, and that's how I get to know some of its highways and byways. Photomorph "Where's the Boundary?" (5-10-13 12650v6) 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.

CAMOUFLAGING THE GAPS (photomorph) and AN OPEN & SHUT CASE (free verse non-dream poem) by Roswila

AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE

She had the look, not of someone
who had no apertures, reflective
or impervious, but of one whose
many openings were stuffed.

As if on finding herself in public
of a sudden, she had seized upon
appropriately shaped objects
in the room.

And was now busily stuffing
a well-polished dinner table
into the gaping wound over her heart,
a store bought braided rug into her stomach,
and various and sundry ashtrays
and knick-knacks into the seemingly random
pock marks along her arms and cheeks.


[free verse non-dream poem written in the mid-1980's, recently reformatted and ever so slightly tweaked. This is actually one in a series I call "Snap Shots," and was posted as part of that group years ago. This particular "snap shot" is about hunger and anxiety of all kinds. Which is exactly why I'm drawn to re-post it today. I'm having a devil of a time with hungers of all kinds, but especially for food (more accurately, M&Ms). And, come to think of it, also with anxiety, which often underlies my most problematic food hunger. Photomorph "Camouflaging the Gaps" 5-10-13 12650v5) 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 SHOUT (photomorph) & DANCE OF THE DINOSAURS (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

DANCE OF THE DINOSAURS

"You can call it what
you want, it's still kidnapping,"
I angrily think
as I watch the dinosaurs
that captured me dancing

actual dinosaurs,
what could be more absurd!
this might be funny
if the floorboards weren't
in danger of collapsing,

and if I weren't
so fully focused on escaping
right now ... uh oh, what's
that addled old woman yelling...
"She's going to run for it!"

the dinos only
slightly slow their stomping,
well accustomed it seems
to the old woman's erratic
declarative outbursts

I use the brief time they frown at the old woman
as my chance to make good an escape, and flee

thinking wryly that for once denial of truth
actually worked out undeniably well,

and suddenly recall the bright eyed smile
on the old woman's face as she said her piece


[four tanka capped by three two-liners on a dream of 7-4-15. Photomorph "The Shout" (9-2-09 6432ev5b) 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.

BINARY STARS (photo) & SPINNING (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

SPINNING

this sight could make one
giddy with delight!
perched there,
floating just above the floor
of the small candy store,
its wheels spinning
like impertinent
impossible flowers,
a child's bicycle,
streamers in rainbow
colors flying as if in a wind,
straight out from the ends
of its handle grips,
the shelves stocked high
with tooth-aching
sweets of all kinds,
blurring into the shadowy
background, and the bike
rolling on in place, its wheels
like newly risen twin suns
above a wide horizon


[free verse poem on a dream of 7-4-15. Photo "Binary Stars" 006v2) 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.

AT THE EDGE (photo) & TOO MUCH (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

TOO MUCH

talk about a dream!
I'm now only 50 years old
with a new lover
who's only twenty-seven,
handsome, blonde, and sweet natured

we sit at curbside
in the late afternoon
absorbed in each other
he whispers, sighing softly,
that it's hard being with me

he sees the hurt on my face and quickly adds
"I have no problem with us, we're great,

the hitch is with a society
in which age matters too much."


[two tanka capped by two two-liners on a dream of 7-3-15. BTW, I'm actually half-way to 72 years old. Photo "At the Edge" (5-24-15 050v2) 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.