WRITTEN ON THE WIND (photomorph) & LIKE A STONE (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

LIKE A STONE

she sits in an old fashioned drawing room,
in a time before electricity would have been
everywhere, candles adding to the already
rather Goth ambiance of the space, which her
black long-sleeved blouse and floor length
skirt fit right in with, though her choice
is based in mourning, not style; she's
shuffling a Tarot deck, sitting at a small,
delicately gilt decorated, dark wood desk,
preparing to lay cards out yet one more
time for a "look see," when a man
enters the room, walking immediately
up to her, squeezing gently by the several
other folk circling the desk and watching;
he's mannerly and even in the Goth gloom
of the room she can see he's nice looking
enough and that he's noticed her soft pale
skin where the collar of her black blouse
lies open, yes, she thinks, there's interest
in his glance; one of the cards then
pops out of the deck as she starts to lay
them out, landing a distance away on
the worn old carpet; the card gets quickly
picked up and passed from person to
person in the circle around her, landing
finally in the new man's hand; he offers
the card to her, a question in his eyes,
and she notes it's The Five of Cups
... ah, she silently and sadly reads the card:
he'll be disappointed, someone else is going
to appear and, for some reason and in some
way, totally swamp this new man's boat;
and that will be that; well, at least for once
it won't be her extended mourning
that sinks a man's interest like a stone


[free verse poem on a dream of 9-30-17. BTW, cards not infrequently just "pop" from a Tarot deck while shuffling it. And when one does, I do read it as having something important to "bring to the table." Also, The Five of Cups in The Tarot does many times mean "disappointment." Photomorph "Written on the Wind" (2-7-10 19448v2) 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]
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