ANGEL OF THE ABYSS (photomorph) & THE ONE-WHO-TOOK-UP-RESIDENCE (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THE ONE-WHO-TOOK-UP-RESIDENCE

she'd never have thought it, but
she's actually grateful for that squatter
in her unconscious mind, the one who
must have taken up residence there
more years ago than she'll ever know;
she's never welcomed advice or, worse,
being told what to do so she can assume
that the one-who-took-up-residence
has always been rather perceptive,
knowing to hide where it would not
be discovered, allowing it to run
the show when absolutely necessary
without being outed; and so it's gone
for more years now than she cares to
count: the one-who-took-up-residence
protecting her from her own gullibility
and (blush) innocence by prompting
unconscious rejection of those whom
she only now consciously recognizes
as the liars who pepper the males of
the human species, masking any whiff
of its control from the deep shadows
of her unconscious with an all too
believable doubt: just what is wrong
with her that she doesn't have a mate?
well, it's clear at last that what she's
questioned for so long as being wrong
with her, is the very thing that's been
right: the one-who-took-up-residence
may be a dark angel but, after all,
the operative word here is "angel"


[non-dream free verse poem written 1-20-18. The first draft of this one was an almost immediate response to making yesterday's post. Again, I have mixed feelings about posting it. However, at the very least it (and yesterday's) make an interesting contrast to that lengthy run of poems/dreams about men that I've put up here recently. I'd even venture a guess (which I will explore more fully when I have time later) that the realizations in yesterday's and today's pieces are where all those yearning and angry poems about men were headed all along. You could have bowled me over with that proverbial feather when I realized that what I've been seeing as wrong in myself, has actually been right. It feels like "not me," though, and I imagine it will take a while to stand comfortably, much less walk in these new shoes. Photomorph "Angel of the Abyss" (9-29-09 7174v6) 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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