WHAT'S GIRL TO DO? (photomorph) & STORY TIME (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

STORY TIME

we keep coming back
to the unfinished under-story,
after all, he intones,
this mythology that’s playing out
is the truest story of them all

I wish that woman
who keeps insinuating herself
into all levels
of my life, obvious or hidden, were
also a myth, in that sense of “not real”

but she matches this mythology, this spine of my life,
not only with her subtle influence but her tenacity

and not for the first
time I wonder what myth she’s playing out
that is hers alone,
even as she extrudes this endless parable,
this haunting made manifest, into my own


[two tanka, a 2-liner, and a capping tanka, on a dream of 1-22-19. Photomorph “What’s A Girl To Do?” (Jan. 2013 folder, or earlier) 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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