IT BLEW MY MIND! (photomorph) & ANOTHER DIDJERIDU DREAM (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

ANOTHER DIDJERIDU** DREAM

why do people find her saccharine songs,
not to mention her off-key singing,
so appealing? well, one might say:
"Tone deaf, that's what they are!"
and I suppose there's truth in that

however, here I stand myself, unable
to get one droning note from this delightful
small didjeridu (really more like a shofar*,
were it not clearly made of polished dark
wood), and I'm supposed to know how
to play these damn things!

and, yes, I could answer myself, I do
know how, I just can't play all the didj's
I come across, anymore than every single
singer's admired by one and all

but I still don't understand all this praise
for her obviously awful singing, and worse
(blush!), why it should matter to me anyway,
who stands here, holding this didjeridu,
out of which I can't get even one single
high buzz or throaty rumble


[free verse poem on a dream of 6-24-18. *Shofar. **Didjeridu). BTW, as mentioned here many times before, I own two didj's that I still play in our retirement community Talent Shows occasionally. Beyond the more obvious "message" (envy/competition) in this dream, the didjeridu image is a familiar one in my sleeping brain's wanderings, pretty much a prodromal dream image. When I'm having trouble playing a didj in a dream, it almost always seems to be just before I recognize some physical health issue. And I woke up on the 25th of June with an excruciating new sort of pain in my already badly arthritic right knee. I hope the rest of this familiar image's "message" holds true. I.e., when it comes up in a dream it always reminds me that I actually had a very difficult time learning how to do the circular breathing one needs to play a didjeridu. But I did not give up and did learn how. May I also, if not heal, at least learn how to live well with this new pain in my right knee. How to keep on making music, if you will. (These comments were drafted two days ago, and the knee pain has eased but is definitely not gone. Of course, a full moon is due in tomorrow, and my emotional and physical perceptions frequently get rather skewed before a full moon. So, I wait and see.) Photomorph "It Blew My Mind!" (2-28-15 003v2b) 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]
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