PERPETUAL MOTION (photomorph) & "LET THINGS COME TO YOU" (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

"LET THINGS COME TO YOU"

from it's taped down perch on the base
of a desk lamp, the little tag her friend sent
her, inserted in her birthday card,
declares clearly, if in very tiny print:
"Let things come to you"

it seemed an easy command to follow
that month ago, having all but given up
on going after anything, as she became more
and more exhausted by chasing after what
only proved to be a tease, or of having it slip
from what she'd thought was her solid grip

and so she stood still inside herself, stiller
than she'd ever been in her life, a vague worry
whispering like a little devil over her shoulder,
that maybe she should also camouflage herself
since such stillness has always been somewhat
dangerous, as if a lack of action were a flag
saying "Here I am, take any shot you want!"

then as the stillness settled in, the little gifts
started arriving, in some instances brought
right to her front door, and at others offered
at random times in her daily journey out into
the wider world beyond her rooms, and some
weren't any sort of gift she would have imagined
would have manifested in response to stillness,
but arrive they all did

not everything aimed at a target at rest at last
is intended to wound


[non-dream free verse poem written 1-26-18. That's an actual little tag sent to me in a birthday card. The entire poem's waking reality-based. Not sure how well it works as a poem. But there's something I've been meaning to mention here and keep forgetting to. There's truly extremely few of my poems I think of a successful. However, I post them anyway, usually because there's something about them I do like, and always they are a piece of my life. My main reason for blogging all along has been to record/share my life. Each poem/post acting as one piece of a far from complete, barely assembled mosaic. Photomorph "Perpetual Motion" (11-26-17 002v5a) 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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