THE DAY ROLLS ON (photo) & HANDWRITING (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

HANDWRITING

last night I dreamed
I saw your handwriting for the first time

your commitment to a date with me
riding the crest of the curves and awkward
angles like a surfer striking the necessary balance

this physicality from you that you'd taken time
and effort to produce and send directly
made me cry for I've long yearned
for a tangible effort on your part
even if it meant fighting the tumultuous
radiating currents of both our lives
to get your message through

maybe it was too much to want from a battle
weary knight who lost his charger
in the last big storm

but how else was I to know you are finally
allowing yourself to want me?


[free verse poem on a dream of 9-29-16. Photo "The Day Rolls On" (9-26-16 008v2) 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), 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.

LIGHTING UP THE NIGHT (photomorph) & HEART TUGGING (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

HEART TUGGING

the dream flickers like an ancient
silent movie, the steadiest
projection of this enchanting
scene: the mother figure, young
and dark-haired she fills
the white wood house with her
essence, like the aroma
of baking bread

less reliably sighted but present
often enough to be savored
briefly and then happily waited for,
the father form, dark haired also,
with a ready smile and a charm
that teases and tickles

the least easily spotted but most
deeply heart tugging of the trio,
a toddler boy, the shine in his curly black
hair like stars in the on-coming night

even as the dream's eye manages
to embrace all three of these figures
flickering together, friendly ghosts
in their phantom summer home,
they radiate away into the night
like the last warmth of sunset
from a bare brick wall


[free verse poem on a dream of 9-29-16. I've mentioned here (but not in a very long time) how I am occasionally very mildly telepathic in a dream. I don't think I've ever said how I also think I sometimes dream other people's dreams. It's also not unusual (as dream research has shown) for people to dream the same dream. In all these cases it's said to be because there's a personal resonance in the content for the dreamer with the content of the other person's dream or thoughts. I agree completely based on my experience. Although as usual here, I can't back up my sense I was dreaming another person's dream with any details, my gut feeling is extremely strong that I was. Also as usual, I even have a sense whose dream it was. However, let me emphasize, this dream is clearly very much applicable to my own life. Which is why my dreaming mind fished this dream "out of the ether," down along my connection to someone else. And one more point: when I feel I'm dreaming another person's dream I also feel it's because they aren't and that it needs to be dreamed. I never check out these sorts of dreams with folk as it tends to spook them out or turn them off. However, I did have a couple of them confirmed many years ago when I was sharing them as "plain" dreams. Also let me emphasize: these dreams are never invasive. I do not learn secrets, and rarely feel anything that I have not already sensed via my waking intuition and empathy. I.e., it's not the contents or details of the other person's dream that matter to me, it's the brief connection the dream provides to the other person. Photomorph "Lighting Up the Night" (9-15-16 008v2d) 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), 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.

WIND & WATER (photomorph) & THIS IMAGE RISES SPONTANEOUSLY (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THIS IMAGE RISES SPONTANEOUSLY:

a scarred wild stallion keeps coming back
to the trough, his reflection floating on
the water that's as still as a held breath:
how thirsty will he have to become
before he dares a drink


[non-dream free verse poem written 9-28-16. Photomorph "Wind & Water" (10-3-11 11324v10d) 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), 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.

NO WAY OUT (photo) & ON BEING A FOOL (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

ON BEING A FOOL

she keeps mumbling to herself
that there's no fool like an old fool,
the operative word in that sentence
locking her in as surely as a jail cell door
being the word "old," as she has no business
at this far end of life seeking that one great
love, in fact it's almost a crime against
common sense to entertain the fantasy

yet a thought keeps raising its small bright face
like one of those wild dandelions growing
from the cracks in the sidewalks along
the morning treks she makes to the sea:

how can it be too late for love,
or even too early, when love's
always right on time to turn
our faces to the sun


[non-dream free verse poem written 9-27-16. Photo "No Way Out" (9-15-16 018v2) 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), 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.

CELEBRATING THE MASCULINE (photomorph) & EROGENOUS ZONED OUT (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

EROGENOUS ZONED OUT

his fingers lightly brush
my lower back as he guides me
through the doorway ahead of him,
and just why my blouse doesn't
burst into flames I don't know,
since my knees threaten to melt
and my brain's gone up in smoke ...
uh ... what ... was it ... he was saying?


[non-dream free verse poem written 6-1-16, based on an old incident. I've kept this on the back burner -- you should pardon the intended pun :-) -- since writing it. The poem itself doesn't grab me (though I'd sure wanted him to). However, I like the pun in the title. And since I have nothing else but repeats to choose from to share today, I thought I'd post this one unused poem I have at present. Photomorph "Celebrating the Masculine" (7-5-09 3251v3) 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), 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.

CIRCLES WITHIN CIRCLES (photo) & ON HAVING NO PLACE TO RUN (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

ON HAVING NO PLACE TO RUN

I'd thought there would always be someplace
new to run to, if not in the objective world
at least here, on the inside where
not even far Antares seems
like too much of a leap to make

and now I find I've always and only
been going round in circles, even here,
in this hidden home base where I fancy
my creativity lives

and not in large, loose loops, where a chance
of touching on fresh territory somewhere along
the aching arch of extended circumferences
might exist, if looked at in just the right way
and in just the right light,

but in the same tight spin, as if one foot
had been nailed to the floor all this time,
body and spirit crucified and pirouetting so fast
that I meet myself coming back

is this what's meant by facing up to one's self?

if so, it's bloody boring, even the whispers
from dangerous, off the wall impulses
far more compelling than this repetitive
and fruitless facing up


[non-dream free verse poem written 9-25-16. Photo "Circles Within Circles" (6-28-16 015v2) 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), 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.

IF WISHES HAD WINGS (photomorph) & ONE BIG LOVE (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

ONE BIG LOVE

it's been said to be careful
what you wish for,
as you just might get it

well, she'd wished fervently through a long
life time for that one great romantic love
she'd read about in novels and poems,
and witnessed her friends experiencing

and, lo and behold, there at the far end
of her life with everything slowly
(and some of it not so slowly) breaking
down around her core of undiminished
yearning for that One Big Love before
she shuffled off this mortal coil,
she got her wish at last

only to find she'd left out
its most important aspect:
that it be requited


[non-dream free verse poem written 9-24-16. Photomorph "If Wishes Had Wings" (9-2-16 005v2a) 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), 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.