CUPPING THE LIGHT (photo) & "whether brimming with ..." (a Taiga Tarot* Tanka) by Roswila

whether brimming with
an unknown brew or the sweetness
of a new moment,
we raise our cups to each other
and to life in a grateful toast


[Tanka to appear on my Taiga Tarot card, the Three of Cups (which may go through some editing when I try to fit it on its design) written 4-10-19. I have not yet made the simple line drawing to go with this 3C. *Click here to see my full designs for other cards I’ve developed so far in the Taiga Tarot and what it’s about, on the blog dedicated to it. I don’t often post designs and/or tankas I develop for The Taiga Tarot on this dreams&poetry blog. However, all of the cards in The Taiga Tarot have been (and will be) dream-based in some way. In this case, I was thinking about that dream I posted here on April 9, 2019 (THE SPECIAL EVENT), which has three women in it. I then recalled that the 3C in many Tarot decks has three women holding cups up in a toast. Here’s the 3C in the well-known Rider/Waite/Smith Tarot:



And I realized a Taiga Tarot card was knocking at the door to my imagination. 😊

Photo at the top of this post: “Cupping the Light” (5-24-15 056v2[2]) 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.