THE HEART MIXES IT UP (photomorph) & THE RED CLOTH (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

THE RED CLOTH

she's draped herself
in a flowing red weaving
as intense as flame, a work
of rubicund diaphanous art
that shimmers and shimmies
with her, dancing and dipping
as if it, too, were alive,
accompanying this solo of hers
in front of the closed
stage curtains:

♪ Summertime
and the livin' is easy ... ♫
one of these mornings
you're gonna rise up singin'
and fly to the sky ♪ ...

the fiery rose of her drapery
stands out in sharp relief against
the dark stage curtains, her singing
and dancing almost more an excuse
to share this vital red, beating like a heart
released and wrapping lightly around her


[free verse poem on a dream of 6-22-18. As I've mentioned here many times in the past, I don't "see" color very often in dreams. And this red was truly awesome. I have several different associations to this dream scene. But each is filled with heart. And maybe that's the ultimate point I can take way from this dream: all of life has heart. I just had another association: "Wearing one's heart on one's sleeve." :-) In a way, that's another message in this dream. I am a bit weary of self-protectively obscuring my deepest heart in metaphor or silence. It would be lovely to just let it loose, let it fly openly, blatantly. Whether or not the stage is set for it, or even open to it at all. Lyrics to "Summertime". Photomorph "The Heart Mixes It Up" (Old Pix File 7665v2a) Roswila]

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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]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

OFFERING TO THE SUN (photo) & UNREMARKABLE (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

UNREMARKABLE
(for a poet friend)

"An unremarkable rock," she says,
"this is my offering" and places it gently
in my open palm

And in truth I see no unusual shape,
no glitter, no seductive smoothness,
no wishing ring going 'round it

Just an ordinary rock
bearing the history of a land
fused in its heart


[non-dream free verse poem, written in April 2001 and revised in June 2018. Photomorph "Offering to the Sun" (10-6-10 10018v3) by Roswila] HAPPY SOLSTICE!

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]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

THE FOREVER CHASE (photomorph) WITHOUT QUESTION (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

WITHOUT QUESTION

something vaguely good that she does
not trust anyway keeps happening:
a familiar, closed mouth man offers her
a small dark sheaf of papers, over and over,
nothing major but still a gift she's not
accepting yet not overtly rejecting; it's
almost as if she doesn't get that she's
supposed to get it (if that doesn't sound
too strange) ...

and I wake with this tremendously sore neck,
both sides, with lots of cracking and popping
when I try to loosen it up: who's a pain in
the neck? he or me? or maybe it's more a matter
of how we relate, both of us stiff necked
and tending to the cryptic, silently demanding
that the other not only understand what we offer
but accept it without question


[free verse poem on a dream of 6-20-18. Actual dream and after effect (i.e. the painful neck). Interesting thing is that as I drafted this piece just now -- with no idea what point it would ultimately make -- my stiff neck eased quite a bit. Photomorph "The Forever Chase" (7-11-09 3704ev2a) 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]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

FLAMING JUNE (painting by Sir Frederic Leighton) & "how silent their flight..." (haiku by Roswila)

how silent their flight!
a straight line of pelicans
above the sea's shushing


[Re-post of haiku written 8-11-17. The painting above is "Flaming June" by Sir Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895. I've loved it for decades and just recently stumbled across it while cleaning out my graphics folder. It, too, has been posted here before, many years ago.]

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]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.