OUT OF THE ASHES (photomorph) & THE BURNING OF A WORLD (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THE BURNING OF A WORLD

what does one do when the unacceptable
hits the fan and one's entire life goes up
with the stench? no getting away from its
reeking, it just keeps spreading, beyond
even the rigid confines of one's own inner
life (if it can even be called a life); it would
be a relief to think of this putrefaction as
part of a natural process ... hell, woman, call
this self-pitying spade a spade, and then use it
to bury all this grandiose negative thinking
that stinks to high heaven; anyway, the point
at which this suffocating ramble began was at
"the unacceptable...," and there is a certain mild
relief to be had in refusing to yield gracefully
to all this pain, as well as to the nattering of
other people's voices telling me what I should
be doing, and to their own levels of suffering
that I cannot help but feel as they wind their
flaky, demanding ways through my own
personal stink: yeah, just wave it all away
like a cloud of annoying, chemical laden,
forest fire smoke: it's only
the burning of a world


[non-dream free verse poem written 7-23-18. My mood has improved somewhat since drafting this a couple of days ago. However, to be honest, I'm never very far from this sort of thinking/feeling. What's new about this exploration of it all is how maybe what's most important is to accept that I cannot and will not accept it all. That in a way, the world is always burning down around (and in) us. And that is unacceptable. That we (well, at least I) build (and re-build) a life from it being unacceptable. Sigh, not sure I just made my point here -- or in the poem. But it feels good to try. Photomorph "Out Of The Ashes" (5-18-15 016v9) 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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