DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE (photo) & THE WAR BENEATH (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

THE WAR BENEATH

why the underpinning of the Vietnam jungles to this
forest edges dream? at least they resemble what I've seen
in faded, flickering old footage of that horrific war; odd
to label any war horrific: doesn't that three letter word
say it all by itself? but somehow this association to that
war feels that much more horrific; yet, the present day
scene of this dream that it lies beneath like unexploded
ordnance, is a genuinely peaceful one of forest greenery
in which a young man sits cross legged on the earth,
carefully and artfully organizing modern dangle earrings
around the outside edges of an antique Vietnamese wire-
wrought box, a box centuries older than that war
it survived to find service as a present day jewelry
display case; did I say this latter day scene is
peaceful? well, mostly and then in spite of the
rustling of branches that draw the young artist's
eyes every so often away from his detailed,
delicate work: here and there the bushes wave and
part, crackling lightly, then instantly closing over
the dark space they open upon, and always just
before the retreating stalker can be observed:
no bullet loosed or deadly pit trap sprung
from the war beneath it all, this time


[free verse poem on a dream of 12-7-18. Photo "Down the Rabbit Hole" (11-27-15) 009v2) 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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