THE ISLANDS OBSCURATUS (photo) & WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE (mixed format, non-dream poem) by Roswila

WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE

there’s no scooping one’s
broken life back up from its stream,
as the adage goes:
“That’s water under the bridge,”
no matter how long one stares and broods

there’s not even any knowing which droplet,
nay, which atom or quantum leap amounts to what

boulders left behind by past floods and debris flows
line the bed like the remains of nightmare creatures,

alternately presenting their distorted pates for viewing,
and hiding as if in ambush beneath the spring crush

not even one’s eyes
can get, much less maintain, the barest grasp
on any of this:
the constant chewing over
of an already ruined landscape


[non-dream, 3 two-liners bookended by tankas, written 4-17-19. Although this does not explain my moodiness entirely, it does explain its increasing intensity: there’s a full moon due in on Friday. Photo “The Islands Obscuratus” (11-29-16 017v3[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]
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