AGAINST THE WALL (photo) & SOMETHING ENTIRELY ELSE (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

SOMETHING ENTIRELY ELSE

two women treat him
very disrespectfully,
probably provoked
but clearly without even
the least bit of compassion

my own heart aching
for him I watch him try to
engage the more out-
spoken of the two
next to a sickly green wall

he just wants to know, he says, why they're talking
to him this way, all he'd tried to do was to help

the two women slip
away easily, leaving
him standing, shaking
his head, and me with a need
to somehow ease his distress

I move in close sharing that I know how his heart
must be hurting, even if he doesn't know it yet

he looks right at me
and calmly denies any upset
he's so cool that I
think he might truly be about
something entirely else

maybe his process by-passes
the turbulent heat of the heart

traversing only the distant
chilly reaches of the mind


[a mix of tanka and two-liners on a dream of 7-31-15. Yeah, that old difference between feelers and thinkers. However, when an issue repeats itself in my life/dreams, it's usually to take it to a deeper level. This dream hit me hard and deep. And at a time when -- although I hadn't realized it until this dream -- I needed very much to be reminded of this difference. Photo "Against the Wall" (6-24-15 002v2b) 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.

STRUNG OUT (photomorph) & "the rose branch ..." (non-dream haiku) by Roswila

the rose branch bowing
under its heavy bonnet
magenta blossoms


[non-dream haiku written 7-15-15. Photomorph "Strung Out" (10-3-09 7266ev4b) 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 GODDESS EMERGENT (photomorph) & IN A DEEP CORNER (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

IN A DEEP CORNER

we've gathered in a large auditorium
for a special Kuan Yin ceremony,
filling the space, if not full,
at least respectably well

the Goddess Herself, a living,
life-size, full color statue,
hovers high in the air above
the first row of adoring seated folk

our chanting floats up to Her
next to the ceiling
through the haze of incense
in a series of swells

with each tide-like rise of tone
She drops another couple of feet
closer to the ground, halting
with each ebb as if listening
for what we will offer next

a final surge in overtone chanting
brings Her up short, face first
flat against the polished wood floor

is this disaster, or miracle
has she fallen, or answered our pleas
and joined us on this earthly plane

I choose to believe the latter,
there were no loud cracks
nor any trembling of the ground
when She abruptly landed

and despite the despairing cries
from all around that She's now
vanished completely, I find Her
in a deep corner of my heart
once I allow myself to look


[free verse poem on a dream of 7-28-15. Kuan Yin (or as now spelled, Guanyin) is one of my favorite Deities, though I don't believe I've ever dreamed about Her before. And I don't think She could have made a more timely appearance, given how I've been feeling and what I've been thinking in recent days. Photomorph "The Goddess Emergent" (8-26-10 10001v3) 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.

EYE ON THE FULL MOON (photomorph) & ON COMPLAINING (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

ON COMPLAINING

what a bunch of complainers!

she opens the bathroom medicine
cabinet and it squeals, most
certainly not with delight
but as if painfully injured
and needing an aspirin itself

yet this vociferous cabinet
has nothing on that exercise
machine on which she toiled away
the other day, fervently hoping
its hide-and-seek, mouse-like
noise wouldn't escalate into
a chalk-on-a-black-board squawking
at being used, but it did, as usual

and what about that front door
she opened on the way
to use that mouse-cum-
squawker, though to give the devil
its due, the door had not yelped
in annoyance at having to open up
in a quite some time

it's as if these upright supports
of her world express
her hoarded stash of complaints,
even as they give her
more about which to grumble


[non-dream free verse poem written 4-23-15 (during my spring blogging break). I've had this on the back burner since writing it, just not sure enough about it. Despite tweaking and picking at it whenever I saw it in my unposted folder. But I'm in the middle of an exceptionally intense PMS (pre-full moon syndrome) attack today and I'd love to do some loud complaining. You wouldn't want to hear what's been screeching through my mind. I certainly don't, but haven't much choice (Big Wry Smile). I have started working on a surprisingly positive dream piece from last night. But given how perfectionism tortures me even more than usual during PMS, I was sure I couldn't get it into shape in time for posting today. Photomorph "Eye on the Full Moon" (7-11-13 005v7c) 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.

CIRCLING THE WAGONS (photomorph) & "mowing the cloudless..." (non-dream monoku) by Roswila

mowing the cloudless sky circling helicopter


non-dream monoku (one line haiku) written 7-27-15. Photomorph "Circling the Wagons" ( 3-21-10 10034ev4) 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 ROLLING WORLD (photomorph) & "low and lean..." (non-dream monoku) by Roswila

low and lean the foothills stretch a brindle cat


[monoku written 8-12-14. Photomorph "The Rolling World" (5-6-10 10005v5) 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.

A SHADOW'S WEIGHT (photo) & WEIGHING IN (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

WEIGHING IN

which of these should be
my dream poem effort today?
two have old themes
with unusual twists to them
and the one new one's irksome:

that large old bedroom
needing much work that I'm shamed
to find a friend cleaned,
or my favorite didjeridu-flute
its mouthpiece chewed by a thief

or maybe that newbie to my dreams, a young dark
woman whose only talent is being a celebrity

and the whiff of discomfort I catch curling
from the edges of her gracious smile:

how easy can life be even for such as she?
responsibilities and shocks weigh on us all


[two tanka capped by three two-liners on three dreams of 7-25-15. When I chose the title I was immediately put in mind of that old song The Weight, sung by The Band. Photo "A Shadow's Weight" (3-24-10 10010e) 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.