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Saturday, November 28, 2015

THINGS PILE UP (photomorph) & INTO THE PICTURE (free verse dream poem) by Roswila


INTO THE PICTURE

the slices of black and white
fall down the cover
of the book handed to me
like leaves from a tree
shaken in a storm

the small pink bow and trailing
opalescent garland I stick
on the upper right hand corner
insinuate themselves gracefully
into the picture like a bit of sunrise

ah, yes, not even this given's
totally unalterable


[free verse poem on a dream of 11-27-15. Photomorph "Things Pile Up" (5-18-11 11002t) 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; TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT; and THE MARKER TAROT.

Friday, November 27, 2015

SKETCHY CONNECTION (photomorph) & BIG QUESTIONS (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila


BIG QUESTIONS

now, how's this question
for a big one? (you should
pardon the pun)
what's Governor Christie
doing in this dumb dream?

nah, not really dumb
I just don't want to deal with
it's many levels,
each one I peel away -- note the
food metaphor -- reveals another

also note that he's
a demotion in a way, only
a presidential
candidate wannabe, not even
a party's chosen candidate

normally he'd be
a president or a former one,
and we have something
very much in common in our
struggles with body size

in other flirting-
with-a-president dreams
only our attraction
obviously connected us
so why this big (pun!) change

and why do I have
to trot beside his car, like
a secret agent ...
yet, for all these questions (and more)
it's pleasant to be flirted with

by this larger than life man to whom I'm both
connected by struggle and separated by position


[tanka series capped by a two-liner on a dream of 11-26-15. Photomorph "Sketchy Connection" (11-24-15 053v2h) 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; TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT; and THE MARKER TAROT.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

THE VIOLIN SINGS (photomorph) & WHAT MUSIC (dream tanka pair) by Roswila


WHAT MUSIC

"Oops!" I say loudly,
knowing it will get my dense
roommate's attention
"I've cut the dining room
table top by accident"

the dark curving slice
lies there like the f hole
in a violin
and I wonder what music I might
make from this suggestive mistake


[two tanka on a dream of 11-25-15. There's several levels to this little dream; too much to go into here (for two, food and relationship issues). But this part of the chorus lyrics to the song by Elle King, "Ex's & Oh's," highlights one of the several levels. (The song was the "soundtrack" to my dream.) --

"One, two, three, they gonna run back to me
'Cause I'm the best baby that they never gotta keep
One, two, three, they gonna run back to me
They always wanna come, but they never wanna leave"

Photomorph "The Violin Sings" (11-24-15 049v7) 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; TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT; and THE MARKER TAROT.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

ADDRESSING THE SKY (photomorph) & UNWELCOME (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila


UNWELCOME

questions ... questions!
will her dreams ever offer her
answers again?
this time she's back on one of those
old jobs she's dreamt of many times

and for some reason she's focused on making
the doctor's billing envelopes more attractive

changing the font to a more decorative one
and the paper to an off- rather than glaring white

working carefully, it seems, to make
the unwelcome more presentable


[a tanka with three two-liners on a dream of 11-24-15. Photomorph "Addressing the Sky" (10-27-15 012v9g) 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; TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT; and THE MARKER TAROT.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

THE VOICE OF THE ROSE (photomorph) & THE BOOK (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila


THE BOOK

there's no way I can
carry all these books on my
return journey home
maybe I should ship them ahead,
they were free, and shipping's cheap

ah yes, here's that book
I thought I gave away
a long time ago,
but its fantasy story
seems a lot shorter now

sadly, the illustrations still leave much to be desired,
not like the cover that delights me just as it used to

now, this chapter ... how is it one makes one's wish?
now I recall: speak to the poorly drawn fluffy cloud,

out of which will come
a yellow cartoon lion ...
and here's that 'toon now
iterating what I knew it would
"Did you really think you'd get that wish?"

and I also know why the lion's now looking back
into the cloud: to request support for this denial

but I don't care to stay around for rejection
by additional denizens of this short fantasy

is it me or a wind that's sighing
I shut this old, all too familiar book


[mix of tanka and two-liners on a dream of 11-23-15. Photomorph "The Voice of the Rose" (3-26-14 002v2c) 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; TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT; and THE MARKER TAROT.

Monday, November 23, 2015

THE HEART OF YEARNING (photo) & HEART-TO-HEART (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila


HEART-TO-HEART

OK, this is getting
to be bloody boring ... kvetching
all during the day
how everybody lets her down
and now all night long, too

dream after dream in which someone's done her wrong,
or been thoughtless or self-absorbed (not much better)

yeah, it hurts, accenting as it does her essential fear
that it's all her fault at core, that she's just not lovable

but what the blazes, life ain't no bed of roses
for anyone, and hers, well, no worse than many

and it's certainly
better than too many of
her fellow humans
struggling right now on this
beleaguered, crowded planet

so get real, honey,
take a huge dose of gratitude
for making it this far,
and for the privilege to keep yearning
to meet with others heart-to-heart


[mix of tanka and two-liners about the dreams of 11-22-15. Photo "The Heart of Yearning" (10-5-09 7369v12) 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; TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT; and THE MARKER TAROT.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

LEFTOVERS (photomorph) & QUERULOUS (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila


QUERULOUS

sigh, again nearly
zero dream recall, and that bit
that's shy of zero?
it's not like fairy dust for flying
just fine grit that can't be seen

how disappointing,
especially when she'd planted
a wish before sleep
("incubated" as they say)
for help with a quagmire mood

but no answer (though she's always had one before)
because there's no graspable dream symbol to carry it

yet, she thinks, it's not
as if it's someone else's mind doing
this stonewalling,
and at that, a question starts
droning on through the dream void

unwelcome like the endless dripping of a faucet:
what is it that she simply does not want to hear


[ a mix of tanka and two-liners on the lack of dream recall for 11-21-15. Photomorph "Leftovers" 3-26-14 0025vc) 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; TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT; and THE MARKER TAROT.