CROWDED ROOST (photo) & ON TAKING SHOTS (dream narrative) by Roswila

ON TAKING SHOTS

... and so I take a shot and revisit
those two women in their sunny,
white wood, crafts store (though
I'm concerned they'll not welcome
me anymore now than they did back
then) I even bring a little gift for
each of them, and almost immediately
find myself cleaning up a mess someone
else left, all the while under the watchful
eye of the red-haired (relatively) more
friendly gal (who was surprised by my little
gift that can be used a couple of different
ways) I make short work of the cleaning
and go on to try to pack for my train trip
but that doesn't work out (why should anything
work out? this dream has already telegraphed
a message of frustration) and I wind up
bringing only my big black shoulder bag
with me onto the crowded train, I struggle
through the narrow aisles to sit in a small
window seat, outside of which on the platform,
the red-haired woman thanks me quite genuinely
for my gift, adding that applying it had saved
her boat, I barely take this in when the big
issue becomes what to eat since I wasn't able
to pack the way I normally would, I give up
on a search through my bag (nothing edible,
no matter I again become vaguely aware I'm
dreaming and can dream the bag full with food
if I want to) and get up to stretch my legs,
not a good choice, not with all these people
crowding the aisles, yammering, and clamoring
for responses to their own questions as the train
lurches through the twilight, one very tall,
dark haired, young man I've met before, reminds
me of many men I've known, although (literally
and figuratively speaking) he's a stand out among
them, and I begin to inch forward, taking the chance
that I'm ready for the full body contact with him
going further ahead will require, wondering (and not
for the first time) where all this risk taking is going


[narrative on a dream of 6-3-16. I see this dream as partly in response to a question I put to my dreams before going to sleep last night, as I do get an answer, of sorts, from it: life is just plain risky. Beyond the answer to my specific incubating question, it offers some interesting takes on my current life issues. Photo "Crowded Roost" (4-8a-15 010v3) 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 other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

IN THE MISTS OF MORN (photo) & A BLUE DAY (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

A BLUE DAY

she keeps trying on clothes,
this blouse or sweatshirt with that skirt,
those socks with that pair of sneakers ...
nothing seems quite right this morning
the only thing about them all
that she likes: the shades of blue
(strange, since purple usually
grabs the spotlight) but she simply
cannot decide today what style
she wants to present herself in
(what a red herring!
as if changing the outside
changes anything at all)


[free verse poem on a dream of 6-2-16. Photo "In the Mists of Morn" (4-8a-15 003v7) 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 other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

THE DOORS COME LAST (photo) & ON OPENING THE DOOR (tanka series on a dream) by Roswila

ON OPENING THE DOOR

just when I'd thought
I'd let all that go, here she is,
my old frenemy again,
and sugar sure as hell still
wouldn't melt in her young mouth

but what disturbs me more?
as always, I welcome her presence,
intelligent and gentle --
you might well then wonder why
I think of us as frenemies

and that's a good point
that I doubt I can clarify for you,
only my intuition
keeps saying not to trust her,
that prodding in my stomach,

that never fails to steer
me true even as I doubt its poking
that makes me queasy --
but as I said, I welcome her
into my home ... but hells bells!

not all these strangers
in her wake! all these loud young
folk, not one invited
to the party I'd organized
to fill my empty evening

annoying, yes! dangerous?
I don't know but won't risk it
I ask my frenemy
to shield me from their view
as I pull out my old flip top cell

I dial the cops
thinking one can never really
know what will tumble
right on through when one takes
a chance and opens the door


[non-traditional tanka series on a dream of 6-1-16. I say "non-traditional" tanka because I didn't bother with the syllable counts for the lines (5-7-5-7-7), and just approximated them. I read somewhere not long ago online that some folk simply define tanka these days as five lines: short, long, short, long, long, which is what I've done here. Photo "The Doors Come Last" (4-21-16 025v3) 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 other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

WAVING GOODBYE (photo) & "a late spring breeze..." (non-dream haiku) by Roswila

a late spring breeze
lopes through the stand of palms
yearning forgotten


[haiku written 4-15-15, and tweaked a tiny bit today. Photo "Waving Goodbye" (4-20-16 001v3) by Roswila; this is pretty much the view that inspired this haiku]

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 other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

SHADES (photo) & "a dark shadow..." (dreamku) by Roswila

a dark shadow
invades the soldier’s skull:
the war at home


[re-post of a dreamku, that I dreamed/wrote maybe as many as 20 years ago (I just today added that colon, hopefully to clarify it a bit). I thought of this dreamku yesterday, Memorial Day, as I was watching ANCHORS AWEIGH -- a wartime (1945), lighthearted, technicolor movie musical. There was such a stark contrast between the movie and what Memorial Day is about that at times it became almost unwatchable for me. Photo "Shades" (5-28-16 10011e2a) by Roswila]

ABOUT 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!

For more in-depth exploration of the dreamku form, 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 other blog: TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT

BREAKING THROUGH TO THE LIGHT (photo) & ON THIN ICE (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

THIN ICE

trying to write about the dream,
in the dream, as it's being dreamed:
like attempting to be the car
and drive the car at the same time

'til at the last this image/thought
insinuates itself between the dream
about a costume party, and the writing
that tries yet again to unmask
the many revelers:

one cannot continue to drive across
thin ice without getting dunked


[free verse poem on a dream of 5-29-16. This is an example of a (semi-)lucid dream: knowing one is dreaming as one is actually dreaming. Photomorph "Breaking Through to the Light" (5-28-16 005v4a) 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 other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

AN AURA OF JOY (photomorph) & A BIT OF GRACE (non-dream tanka) by Roswila

A BIT OF GRACE

joy's a bit of grace
that arrives in one's life
unbidden, and like
a golden nugget dropped by a hidden
hand into water, leaves no mark behind


[non-dream tanka, written 5-27-16. Photomorph "An Aura of Joy" (5-28-16 005v14) by Roswila; to see detail, click on image for a larger version]

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 other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.