THE GIFT (photo) & "the photo appears ..." (dream tanka) by Roswila

the photo appears
a dozen times on the page,
each one needs a verse;
first written: Give the Lender
the Power to Receive

[dream tanka written/posted in 2008, and slightly revised and re-posted today (7-21-18). I've been having some dream recall but not feeling moved enough to make notes on any of it. Am I ignoring the gifts being offered? Photo "The Gift" (10-30-16 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]
**** 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.

TAMPING IT ALL DOWN (photomorph) & THE ROARING (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THE ROARING

she bears the constant roaring
of men's voices, swirling 'round
and 'round her head,
like a heavy, flat-brimmed hat
that serves to keep a lid on her fear

"Yeah" (these strident voices swear)
"...the future's about to roll over us,
but we're in control"


[non-dream free verse poem written 3-20-18, and revised several times since. Another of those poems I've not been at all sure about. But this last revision (today) may have shaped it up enough at least to post. Photomorph "Tamping It All Down" (5-27-17 018v3a) 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.

THE LAST SCREAM (photomorph) & HOLDING (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

HOLDING

I'd let these always agitating tears
that lunge at the sea wall of good sense
loose into the world anyway
if they could nourish even one blossom

but salt remains salt, and holding back
these oceanic surges wreaks no harm on
anything but my already
crumbling old self


[non-dream free verse poem written 7-9-18. I've had this new one percolating for a while. Still not all that happy with it, even after an umpteenth revision just now. But I have nothing else new to put up. And, if nothing else, it reflects today's self-pitying mood. Photomorph "The Last Scream" (8-16-09 5606ev2a) 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.

* * * *

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.

STAVING OFF THE DAY (photomorph) & PILLOW SONG (mixed format dream-inspired poem) by Roswila

PILLOW SONG

the morning calls
vaguely through her curtains
again and again,
but Morpheus sings like a siren
and she falls back into his arms

he inveigles her
to stay a while with strange vistas:
doors opening inside the sea
deaths reversing themselves
card games grousing like people

knowing the day can’t possibly match up
she yields each time to the song of her pillow


[two tanka and a two-liner on a night’s dreaming and the morning’s oversleeping, written and posted 11-23-12, slightly revised, and re-posted 7-17-18. Photomorph "Staving Off the Day" (7-23-09 4117ev4) 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.

* * * *

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.