MELTDOWN (photomorph) & WHAT A FANTASY (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

WHAT A FANTASY

her mother comforts this woman with my sister's
high-falutin name (oh-so-many familial references
in this dream that I even know this as I'm dreaming):
I'm really not happy at all to see either one of these
women out of my past (both recent and deeper), but
especially the daughter, my erstwhile friend and her
waves of demanding expectations that always did and
still do roll off her and over me, even from beneath
her mother's smothering hug; I turn so quickly on my
heel I nearly twist my arthritic ankle but manage
to keep going as I fast as I can away from them both;
the farther I (almost) run, the angrier I get, and it's an
alien kind of anger for me, streaked with frigid veins,
a warning that keeps spreading like cracking ice,
threatening to put out this fiery anger altogether: am I
certain of this burgeoning rage, and of my (dare I say)
right to have it, to let it trail from me like Superman's
cape in the evening breeze? yes, what a fantasy all of
it is anyway: family, friends, comfort, expectation,
demand, running away ... hey, maybe if I really take
in this reality that it's all un-real, I can stop fearing
a resurgence of Kryptonite


[free verse poem on a dream of 11-26-18. Photomorph "Meltdown" (10-3-11 11324v2st) 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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