DREAMING UP NEW ROSES (photomorph) & DREAM EGG (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

DREAM EGG

she dreams slipping out of herself, and walking easily
into her cold bathroom, leaving her to happily oversleep
in the warmth of her messy bed; but the ease with which
she rises and walks, quickly peels away the ruse, no matter
her dreaming mind takes a crack at it several times in a row:
her dream self sliding up and out of her sleeping body
into the day she wants desperately to avoid … no,
this is only a dream, she’s not known such quick
and painless rising nor such willingness to face
her day in many, many years; time to bring
her broken body and unwilling waking mind
along with her, up from this soft,
sheltering nest,
and break the illusory egg
of this wishful dream


[free verse poem on a dream of 5-1-19. Photomorph “Dreaming Up New Roses” (7-9-09 3581ev2[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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