BETWEEN DARKNESS & THE LIGHT (photo) & SELFIE TALK (free verse poem response to a dream) by Roswila

SELFIE TALK

oh, no, Patricia!! you're not going back to living
with him, are you? ... actually giving up this fight
we've been in to find someone more suiting, hell,
more healthfully exciting, more caring (for suiting
can be adjusted, taken in or let out, but not
the rest) ... and, call a spade a spade, have you
let go of finding a man who truly desires you,
not just any woman who still happens
to be breathing?

is this what a life time of loneliness and frustration
is doing to you and me? deeply drying the (already
aged) fruit on the vine, or at best souring it to any
hopefulness that things might be
different with some other man?

yes, I'll agree, Patricia, there's the rub: not a pair's
been strapped on in our vicinity in longer than either
of us would care to admit to, at least not so's we two
(admittedly somewhat dense) women could recognize
and respond to as a male blighter's rise of true interest
and not just some sham, some thoughtless pity
or teasing tossed our way

all I can offer is that old saw about "Those who don't
remember the past are doomed to repeat it..." (do not
forget what going back to him is like!) ... instead
of his abuse (and there's no other word for it) wouldn't
you rather this ongoing loneliness and frustration,
occasionally lifted out of the pits by a bit of brilliant
(if ultimately burning out) hope that a caring,
sexy man has landed in our life at long last?


[free verse poem on a dream of 12-2-17. The dream was simple: I was in the process of moving back in with a former actual lover. (We'd never lived together, but given the influence I allowed him we might as well have been.) And that was all there was to the dream. This poem is my waking response to the dream. BTW, that former guy was never physically abusive, but he was extensively manipulative and deeply undermining. Photo

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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