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Saturday, August 08, 2015

LOOP-THE-LOOP (photomorph) & TAKING ACTION


TAKING ACTION

Mom? Dad? Oh...guess I'll
leave a message though I'd rather
talk to you both live ...
I'm bringing someone with me
to our monthly dinner tonight

I'm only giving
you this heads up because his
looks don't match his ways
you'll need to make sure your
open minds stay that way

let the reality
of his generous nature
dawn on you slowly,
as it did me, past his wild
hair and loopy dark mien

his kind heart's only revealed
through the actions he takes


[three tanka capped by a two-liner on a dream of 8-7-15. In case it's not clear, this is also a message for me to be more open about relationships in general. And, as is often the way with dreams, a timely one. Photomorph "Loop-the-Loop" (8-14-13 015v8a) 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.

Friday, August 07, 2015

THE WEIGHT OF IT ALL (photomorph) & FOR NOW (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila


FOR NOW

there must be a note
pinned to my back declaring
"I'm responsible!"
how else to explain everyone's
assumption I'm handling it all:

from the complicated plane reservations
for Easter Island on the other side of the world

(and mind you, I can't even afford to attend
that part of the upcoming Adult Ed class),

to managing the food in the fridge
(with it's massively disorganized freezer),

to being expected (I'm sure) to thoroughly clean
the common areas of this place we're staying in,

and all without guidelines ... the only leavening moment?

my sweet tabby cat's
not only back from the vet's
but happy to see me,
asking nothing of me (for now)
but to pet her silky fur


[two tanka, four two-liners, and one monoku on a dream of 8-6-15. I started typing comments to this dream/poem. However, each tug on a strand led me to different one, and then another, and another... So, I'll let it take responsibility for itself (smile). Photomorph "The Weight of It All" (9-23-13 005v3b) 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.

Thursday, August 06, 2015

SLO-MO (photo) & "the clouds glide ..." (non-dream tanka) by Roswila


the clouds glide
slowly but surely from left
to right, the lazy
foothills and sleepy
dark trees tell me this


[non-dream tanka written 8-5-15. I was drawn first to take a series of pix of this early evening view. As I did so I felt the tanka percolating. Photo "Slo-Mo" (8-6-15 001v2) 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.

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

THE GATHERING GLOOM (photomorph) & LOSERS (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila


LOSERS

why always having
to give it up, let it go,
and the worst of all,
return it as it was only
a short-term loan to begin with

now, I don't want you
to think I believe I'm alone
in this on-going
give-back, I do see the startled
faces of newly bereft folk

even as I already grieve the golden tome
just lifted from my reluctantly open hands

one might think we'd ease each other's pain with compassion
but mostly we simply go on, denying we're losers


[tanka and two-liners on a dream of 8-4-15. I hope it's clear that I'm looking at the put down idiomatic meaning of "loser," from a different angle. Photomorph "The Gathering Gloom" (6-24-15 008v2b) 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.

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

PASTORALE (photomorph) & POSTER CHILDREN (free verse dream poem) by Roswila


POSTER CHILDREN

The End

the gabled house sprawls, its hallways
going on forever, an echoing
abandoned Victorian mansion,
a voice-over saying in no particular tone
as if it's so true as to need no emphasis:
"... and here's where belief is built
and changed and changed again,
in the rambling corridors of time."


Old Age

the old woman's youthful ballet
partner holds her close to his chest
while they rest on the rehearsal hall floor,
his breath warm against her ear
as he whispers while she cries in pain,
"... there's still a body, as long
as there's a body there will be
pain, keep dancing with me
and there will be no body."


Youth

he proudly shows off his cattle ranch,
a lush green, rolling expanse
on one side of the long road
punctuated by trees on the horizon,
both cows and horses moving purposefully
as if they're pieces on a chess board

the centerpiece of this pastoral scene:
a large golden palomino, its fetlocks,
mane, and tail so long and flowing
they look as if they're continually
melting and reforming
in the furnace of sunlight


The Beginning

they're each to design a series
of living posters that aims to express
one supportive way of understanding
they've found on their individual journeys
to this present place

she finishes hers with less fuss than she
usually brings to an assignment,
and lines them up neatly along one
expanse of floor edge awaiting
proper hanging in the massive
white walled gallery

she's still a bit unsure if the choice
of an abstract mode was the best
for her purposes, but finds herself
far more interested in, even a bit
excited by, the prospect of seeing
what others have drawn out
from their own unique journeys


[free verse poem on a dream of 8-3-15. This was actually dreamed in the reverse order from what appears above (which to some degree explains why it starts at the end and winds up at the beginning). But as I recalled this novella length dream to make notes, it came to me in this above "backwards" order. And it seems to work better this way. I could theorize why, but would have to go on at length about an additional level to this dream (about time) and this is already a very long post. BTW, the quoted words in the first and second stanzas are verbatim from the dream. Photomorph "Pastorale" (8-25-13 015v12) 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.

Monday, August 03, 2015

SORROW'S IMPRINT (photomorph) & LOVE ME KNOT (non-dream scifaiku series) by Roswila


LOVE ME KNOT
(a scifaiku series)


whom the Gods would punish
bottles of sweet liquid love

(3-10-09)
* * * *

cross vampire his new romance has no bite

(7-23-14)
* * * *

life tied up as a Gordian love me knot

(7-26-13)
* * * *

all I'd wished for
including his heart on a platter
his blue LED eyes

(12-23-09)
* * * *

the end that never comes
crushed by the constant weight
of your ghost

(11-23-08)
* * * *


[non-dream scifaiku series, dates written are below each. Click here for info on scifaiku. There's also a really good on-going Scifaiku group on Yahoo. I didn't start going through my scifaiku master file with any particular subject in mind. In fact, the only one I was originally thinking of posting was my newest, a silly vampire one. But, much in the way of dreams, a themed series emerged as I went along. Photomorph "Sorrow's Imprint" (4-21-15 004v3q) 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.

Sunday, August 02, 2015

STUDY FOR LIGHT & SHADOW (photo) & ON COOKING THE BOOKS (free verse dream poem) by Roswila


ON COOKING THE BOOKS

my ex-mother-in-law, Jocasta,*
enters the living room
and there goes any chance
of this visit with my former family
being a pleasant one

Jocasta (one might say "affectionately" Jo
if affection didn't always run screaming
from her vicinity) starts nit picking
and blaming before she even lowers
her knotted old bones into the nearest chair

family legend has always said that Jo
had been exceedingly generous in her
long lost youth, and had never asked for,
nor even it seemed expected acknowledgment

yet one wonders why no one (not even Jo
herself) ever noticed how this dearth
of appreciation was piling up on the dark
side of her life's lengthening ledger

eventually taking over the entire balance
sheet ... after all, shadow's greatest
and most insidious skill is to cook
even honestly well intentioned books


[free verse poem on a dream of 8-1-15. Oy! This one has layer after layer. *Here's a link to the Jocasta complex in psychology. I had to Google the name to refresh my memory on this sort of "reverse Oedipal complex." (When I woke I only knew the name was familiar.) Then there's how I've been feeling possessed by my shadow. (Jung once said about the shadow, "How do you find the lion that's swallowed you?") There's also some further looking into familial and other types of relationship history. And yesterday's dream was (mostly) at the level of the present, while this one goes back a generation. There are also other strands I'll probably tug on later to see where they lead. BTW, I find it wryly amusing that that closing image can be associated with food preparation. I've been having a devil of time with food cravings for some time now. Photo "Study for Light & Shadow" (7-12-15 003v3) 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.