DROPLET (photomorph by Roswila) & "don't mope and moan..." (haiku by Issa)

don't mope and moan!
tomorrow brings
tomorrow's dewdrops


[haiku written 1814 by Haiku Master Issa. My thanks to David Gerard of Daily Issa for this haiku and the below versions of it in kanji (Japanese ideogram form), and then in romanji (phonetic, western alphabet):

くよくよとさわぐな翌は翌の露
kuyo-kuyo to sawagu na asu wa asu no tsuyu

I love this haiku. It works on two very different levels at once. And together they address the impermanence of everything. (Which I most certainly hope applies to the advent of carpal and cubital tunnel syndrome in my hands! I.e., carpal on the right, and cubital on the left. Argh!) This haiku can also be read to vaguely echo that bible quote about tomorrow's troubles being sufficient thereto. Photomorph "Droplet" (5-2-16 untitled) 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.

AUTUMNAL CATCH (photo) & A QUERY (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

A QUERY

when most desperately
beseeching heaven,
do we close our eyes
and fling our heads
way back, in order
to expose the truth
of our prayers,
caught in our
vulnerable throats


[non-dream free verse poem written 9-12-17. BTW, it's ROSH HASHANAH (year 5778) in the Jewish tradition. May this new year bring health, happiness, peace, and prosperity to all. Photo "Autumnal Catch" (9-8-17 009v4) 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.

SNAKING THROUGH THE NIGHT (photomorph) & I'M SO SORRY (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

I'M SO SORRY

I'm so sorry. I honestly didn't see that WET
PAINT sign on the driveway. I was in a rush
and it was twilight ... and ... and ... OK, I admit
it, I messed up. But truly, I didn't mean to trace
those trails of pale blue paint from that lovely large
wet arrow on the tarmac. I'd never have messed up
the driveway for the world ... well, but for the haste
to get where I'd promised to be on time, and so I left
an accidental trail of paint behind snaking across
the black top in my unthinking rush not
to disappoint my friends. Sometimes
one simply can't win for trying.


[non-dream free verse poem written 9-19-17. I saw the paint trails and this was the story that my imagination told me. Photomorph "Snaking Through the Night" (9-17-17 025v2)]

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.

TEMPTING DIVE (photo) & NUMINOUS (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

NUMINOUS

a long row of raindrops clings
to the edge of the poolside railing
after the storm: I touch them all
in turn with the tip of a forefinger
and just before each tiny tear
falls free, the clearing sky
briefly fills it with a dollop
of numinous blue


[non-dream free verse poem written 9-5-17. I had not thought of it this way when I first decided to post this poem today, but it makes a suiting belated acknowledgment of yesterday, which would have been my younger brother's 69th birthday. Though we'd been estranged for many years when he died in 2013, I miss simply knowing Russ was on the same planet with me. Photo "Tempting Dive" (9-17-17 009v2) by Roswila; the far end of the railing off to the left is where I was touching raindrops; you can just make out the chair I was sitting in.]

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.