THE MOUNTAINS SUPERVISE (photo) & MOUNTAINOUS (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

MOUNTAINOUS

so very familiar, this twisting, two-lane road
down the seaside mountain ... ah, yes, that's
what it was, a recurring night dream in my
long ago youth: it seems I'm always clambering
up a steadily rising, tree-lined mountain road
to its top most edge and wide angle view, then
stumbling back down through hot dust and over
rocks, skirting the roughest spots when possible,
the spectacular view below filled with buildings
that appear to grow larger, even as the gaps
in the mountain greenery seem less apparent
for all their increasing nearness; "It's a matter
of perspective..." one might be tempted to
assert and that's true, but what about all that
then lies unacknowledged outside the focus
on oh-so-carefully planned footsteps and
anxiously held breath at precipitous edges;
for if it could, would a mountain ever waste
even a moment of its slow time fearing
the loss of life and limb along the glorious
paths of its own transformations


[non-dream free verse poem written 7-22-18. Photo "The Mountains Supervise" (OLD PIX 001va d&p) 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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