LEARNING CURVE (2) (photo) & THE LIE (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

THE LIE

you've heard of the Big Lie*
well, it looks like some trifling trespass
next to this huge old dilly

no one even knows how it got put over
so widely and thoroughly to begin with
to become such an eyesore in our hindsight
that we can look at it now only through
an uncertain laughter

not even our father with his lyrically
lying tongue could have dreamed up
this gargantuan lie

nor could he have spread it like a warm
but ultimately suffocating blanket
his penchant for self-mockery keeping
his untruths cutting and close to home

and worse yet we still don't even know
what this Brobdingnagian lie actually was!

we only feel it by its absence, dark like
an empty field where invasive grasses once
strangled their ways to dominance, now
stripped bare awaiting the seeds of native
flora on wind and wing


[free verse poem on a dream of 8-22-13 (re-posted on 3-9-19). Sadly, I’m still waiting for those seeds. Though maybe that’s the current big lie: that nothing new’s been growing all this time since I had this dream in 2013. Also, I think there’s a big lie underlying all of life. Maybe something like the belief that we can really understand anything at all. BTW, the expression the "Big Lie" was coined by Adolf Hitler about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously..." (from Wikipedia online). Photo "Learning Curve (2)" (8-22-09) by 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.