THE EYE OF NIGHT (photomorph) & HOW I SEE IT (dream narrative) by Roswila

HOW I SEE IT

the surf lopes lazily in the bright
sunlight, like the miniature horses
that cross the beach's edge; from
where I lie on a small grassy dune
not even yards from the sea I watch
this preserve's caretaker playfully
chase a miniature male lion, who
glows golden in the sun, clearly
in a game of catch-me-if-you-can
that they've played many times;
as the little lion with the caretaker
not far behind leaves my view, one
of the miniature horses, no more
than a foot long, prances up to the
edge of the dune, and pauses, nay,
poses gracefully, the day's bright
light turning his coat and long mane
and tail a lustrous red-gold; I yearn
to pet him all over, this proud, little
horse with his tempting conformation;
but though I could just reach him by
stretching out and over a bit from
my belly down perch on the grassy
dune, I somehow know it would
not be welcome: his beauty's
for my eyes only


[narrative on a dream of 1-6-17. Photomorph "The Eye of Night" (5-25-09 1726v19b) by Roswila]

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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.

AFTER THE INVASION (photomorph) & SIMPLY TO BE (dream narrative) by Roswila

SIMPLY TO BE

the huge, crowded theatre's being evacuated
in a rush at the order of invaders; I'm just
outside of a side entrance and somehow
learn that the invaders are going to arrest
a certain sub-group of the crowd (to which I
happen to belong) as they leave; I hurry
back inside against the tide streaming out
to warn others in my sub-group not to leave
unless somehow camouflaged; once I'm sure
this message is spreading on its own the way
rumors do (rapidly and to everyone) I decide
I'll buddy up to a bunch of folk taller
than I am so I won't stand out so much
on making my exit again; I wind up
behind a very tall, thin young man
with dark hair who seems trustworthy
and takes the lead; we hurry together
down a sidewalk to a very wide
boulevard intersection; he tells me
to wait on a corner, that he'll be
right back; although an exposed position
for me to be in, I wait there thinking
he's going off to get a vehicle for us;
then I see him ride right by me in a car
with some others in it; betrayed again,
I think, as I start looking around and
walking, trying to figure out where to
go from here; I manage to make it
across the quadruple lane boulevard
before either the light changes (or I'm
spotted by the roaming invaders); I
figure I'll take an uptown bus, there's
always so much going on up there that
I'll blend right in with the creative
flux and won't stand out; I'm delighted
to be first on the bus line as it means
less time to be exposed to scrutiny
from the street; but it turns out the door
that opens in front of me is a side door
and I have to wend my way all too
obviously along the sidewalk to the front
door to pay: whether betrayed on purpose
or by happenstance it's a hazardous
and lonely journey to find a safe
place simply to be who I am


[narrative on a dream of 1-5-17. Photomorph "After the Invasion" (5-25-09 1726v2c) 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.

WASHED AWAY (photomorph) & ON MAKING CHOICES (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

ON MAKING CHOICES

my dear New York friend
has given me all I may need
to both teach and learn
in a class here, a California college
much like my old High School

including a slew
of codes to unlock the class room,
a small studio
attached to the school proper that
she thinks is a better space to use

then a California friend, a man I find a bit attractive,
offers me more codes for rooms in the main building

he and I discuss
what the various codes may indicate
about the classes
that are usually given there, and I think
to myself that all these codes are unknowns,

all open on to desires with hidden risks,
awash in blurring High School memories,

how can I choose based on such veiled information?
I need a class on making choices before I even begin


[a mix of tanka and two liners on a dream of 1-2-17. Photomorph "Washed Away" (5-25-09 1726v13m) 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.

WAITING FOR WHALES (photo) & HE'S GOT HER BACK (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

HE'S GOT HER BACK

a couple of folk
try to brush off the negative
energies that keep
returning to cling to her back
as she wanders the large room

he touches her back
next, and explains it's not to
dispel negative
energy, but to give her
a bit of positivity

she turns her head towards him, listening closely
as he tells her of the source of the positive energy

"It seems," he says, "I'm connected to millennia old,
non-human life forms: deep sea creatures,

mostly gargantuan whales that dwarf any now living,
who tumble through the past bearing their gift for the future"

they stand quietly as his hand warms her back
and he whispers "Can you hear them singing?"


[two tanka and four two-liners on a dream of 1-2-17. Photo "Waiting for Whales" (12-21-16 001v2) by Roswila. At 1:31 am this morning I turned 73 years old (yikes!) and am still waiting for those whales, as I have been all my life ... sorry, it's been a very blue few months so my birthday's not really any better.]

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.

THE EMERGENCE OF TEAL (photomorph) & A DIFFERENT KETTLE OF FISH (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

A DIFFERENT KETTLE OF FISH

... and so she spends
all night working on and re-working
her birthday cards for
that mother/daughter pair out of
the past that she yearns to please

the wordy card text
almost writes and formats itself,
but the card designs
are a completely different
kettle of very unsettled fish

her drawings leaping
wildly from her frantic pen
into nothingness,
then a sketch for the mother's card lands,
resting in its allotted space on the page

it even allows its
vertical shapes to take on color,
a lovely teal blue,
followed by iridescence: ah, she
muses, will the daughter's match

and a basic draft
for the daughter's card flaps down
to the right of her
mother's, though still a bit vague
it's clearly related to the teal sketch

yes! she can enjoy
the rest of the designing process,
she thinks, since at last
her ongoing efforts have been
anchored in the here and now


[tanka series on a dream of 1-1-17. Photomorph "The Emergence of Teal" (12-19-16 012v4f) 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.

YOUR BRAIN ON DESIRE (photo) & A GOOD-BYE TO REMEMBER (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

A GOOD-BYE TO REMEMBER

my desire for him
has only grown stronger,
though I've finally
accepted that this deeply magnetic
man's not for me to hook up with

after all it would be
cheating on my significant
other to do so,
yet now that I learn this sexy man's
dying I wonder if I might bed him,

once, and once only, a loving good-bye
to remember: would that be cheating?


[two tanka and one two-liner on a dream of 1-1-17. BWL! (Big Wry Laugh) Some part of me just won't give up, will it? It'll find a way to have what it wants. Even creating such an ultimately sad scenario. Of course, there are also a variety of psychological implications to this I won't go into. This may sound strange, but there's also a sort of wishful and vague "Beauty and the Beast" tale implied here. I.e., would loving him, "save" him? There's a line in a song: "Say something, I'm giving up on you, sorry that I couldn't get to you." A line that haunts me these days. And that goes back to one aspect of those psychological implications I mentioned. (OK, so's not to be so mysterious, one of those implications: I tend to feel overly responsible for everyone and everything. Which, on it's flipside, implies one is more powerful, if you will, than is at all realistic.) So it's one of those jam packed little dreams. Photo "Your Brain On Desire" (12-21-16 012v5 named Your Brain...) 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.

OPEN INVITATION (photo) & HE (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

HE*

Oy! he's here, again...
I really hadn't thought our paths
would cross anymore,
given all that goes on in
the life of a celebrity

and especially
in his recently, what with
the divorce and all...
well, seems he's going to be
a regular heart stopping haunt

but we'll have to set
some guidelines for his visits,
such as no just dropping
in without notice, like tonight
when I'm in my bed clothes

additionally,
no bringing anyone else with him
(again like tonight)
if he's going to haunt me
I require his full attention

I don't want to have to listen to him
dealing with a confused companion,

while I simply stand by, trying to control
my intense response to his presence

so if he's going to persist in these visits,
they can at the very least be on my terms

...who am I kidding?
unexpected or planned visit, he'll always
have me at hello


[four tanka with three two liners and one ending dreamku on a dream of 12-31-16. *"He" was Brad Pitt, who's been in my dreams before, but not for a long time. Photo "Open Invitation" (7-31-14 007v2) by Roswila. And, on another subject altogether: HAPPY NEW YEAR!]

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.