TORNADIC (photomorph) & ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES

oy! we need an exterminator,
quick, catch that crawler before
it reproduces ... what's all that
rumbling?
and why's the house shaking?
oh no, they're moving it,
piecemeal,
away from the infestation!
what a bass-ack-ward approach
not to mention just plain
extreme!
a couple of bugs and the entire
house gets lifted and now (yikes!)
carelessly
dropped elsewhere? ... yowza! watch
you don't smash that pile of stuff
underneath ...
uh, too late, it's like Dorothy's
house being dropped into Oz by that
tornado ... hm, maybe when it hit
the ground my house squashed that
wicked witch
who's been cursing me of late?
nah, why would I ever have
such luck,
I'll just be left with this deeply
broken home to repair, and a
strange new land to learn about...
hey ... dum-dum,
stop kvetching, and roll up your
sleeves, here's that new life
for which you've been yearning


[free verse poem on a dream of 6-15-17. Photo "Tornadic" (6-4-17 039v2) 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.

BEYOND THE FENCE (photo) & COOPED UP (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

COOPED UP

for once it's a happy bit of memory; it's doorway,
spontaneous recall of what would be a 65 year old
photo had it survived the turbulent trip into now:
a small, square black and white picture with
rippled white borders, its dark shadows long
faded into pale sepia; one first notices (at least I
remember I always did) the 8 year old girl (me)
looking up at the camera and grinning widely,
another smaller girl to her right grinning also;
then one notices these two small suns are seated
in a little chicken coop (the chicken wire around
it's ramshackle sides being a good clue) and they're
craning they're heads back and up through
the door-roof at the photographer as if just found
out; to be honest I don't know what I felt that day
but it's a lovely fantasy to spin the memory
of this photo's two dimensions and say that,
harbored by that lopsided chicken coop,
my friend and I were having a very happy
time of it hatching trouble


[non-dream free verse poem written 6-12-17. Photo "Beyond the Fence" (6-4-17 040v3) 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.

THE SUN'S SKIN (photomorph) & THE WOULD-BE BIRD FEEDER (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila]

THE WOULD-BE BIRD FEEDER
(a challenge poem*)

two of my neighbors I've just run into,
and I, stand together on the street corner,
admiring the fresh basket-shaped mango skin
she's holding up, back lit by the bright sunlight;
she smiles, wondering out loud if it will dry
hard enough to make into the hanging bird
feeder its shape suggests; as the two of them
walk on, taking the impressive skin away
with them, I think: no matter if it doesn't find
a second life as a feeder, we have already
been fed by its dazzling orange-yellow
color, its sun sweetened curves


[non-dream free verse poem written on 6-13-17. * I'm calling this one a challenge poem as just before my neighbor left she added, with a smile: "Now you can write a poem about this mango skin." I should add that my fellow residents in the retirement community I live in are all too aware of how much poetry I write. :-) Photomorph "The Sun's Skin" (3-2-15 005v10a) 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.

END OF A UNIVERSE (photomorph) & BENEATH (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

BENEATH

while I stand in awe gazing up
at the jacaranda tree in full bloom,
small lavender blossoms fall
one by one to the green
blanketed earth beneath
as if weeping over a loss
beyond my comprehension


[non-dream free verse poem written 6-11-17. Photomorph "End of a Universe" (6-4-17 006v2h) 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.

CROWDED SKIES (photomorph) & WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND (dream narrative) by Roswila

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

as we'd done in the far past my long
deceased friend (though this is
unremarkable in the dream) and I start
looking for a two bedroom apartment
to share; the rents (as we'd dreaded)
are atrocious and I suggest we try what
we'd done a few times in exceptionally
lean years: lease a one bedroom: "I'll take
the living room as my personal space,"
I say, "and you can have the bedroom;"
of course, the issue of each of us having to
traipse through the other's private area
immediately surfaces, as it did back then:
how does one share closely and still respect
the integrity of the other person's space?


[narrative on a dream of 5-28-17. Photomorph "Crowded Skies" (1-30-17 015v2o) 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.

DON'T GO THERE (photomorph) & THE SNARES (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THE SNARES

they more or less graciously endure
the yearning for and acute suffering over
what they've lost: the passionate loves that
now line the by-ways of their pasts like so
much litter glittering when the light hits
certain edges just right, or soggy when days
are an unending grey; while I, on the other hand,
deeply mourn all the loves I've never even had
a chance to lose, as I bear over and over again
the sudden assaults of distant desire that wait
in ambush around any unknown corner, teasing
and tormenting me with sweet promises that
maybe, just maybe, this time ... but they stay
around only long enough to claw me raw like
the spirits of sleek black panthers escaping
the snares of manifestation


[non-dream free verse poem written 6-11-17. Photomorph "Don't Go There" (2-13-17 020v2i) 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.

* * * *

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.