ON THE OTHER SIDE (photo) & DON'T GIVE UP (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

DON'T GIVE UP

don't give up on me
I'm closer to whole with you
than with anyone, ever

even when my crazed self gives way
under the inner pressures I live with and explodes
around us, even then, I'm closer with you to what
I sense to be whole, than with anyone else

don't give up on me, stay with me as I sift through
the shards of my broken self that litter the ground
around us, some may be gems (it could happen!)
or it least wishing stones ... you know, ones
with holes in them, through which
the new may some day emerge?

don't give up on me,
wholeness may be just the other
side of these dark holes long ago
blown through my soul

[non-dream free verse poem written 10-3-18 (during recent blog break). BTW, a few days after writing this poem I recalled that "wishing stones" (or rocks) were actually said to be those with a ring that goes completely around them, not a hole through them. Ah well, I'm going to STET the mis-remember in this poem, as it's what leads to the poem's final image and point. Photo "On the Other Side" (8-17-18 018v2e) 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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