FALLOUT (photomorph) & LIFE OUT LOUD (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

LIFE OUT LOUD

she remains outdoors despite all
the exploding bombs (and threats
of bombs) from the pale blue sky;
her only attempt to shelter any part
of herself? to turn her back on
what’s falling and soon to explode:
she’s nigh on to sick to death of
seeing the beginnings of carnage,
(her eyes burn and ache from all
she tends to witness); then (damn
her good peripheral vision) two
huge rocket-bombs launch and
even as she sees what she does
not want to, the disasters set on
happening slide down the sky;
it’s no real relief to hear a man
off to her right declare “Don’t
worry, they’re aimed upstate,”
and she abruptly wakes to more
than usually chaotic and loud
traffic noises from outside her
open window: OK, so there's
the source of the explosions,
but she’s still uncertain what
the dream might be saying
by its choice of metaphor


[free verse poem on the dream of 10-22-19. I’ve had this same concern on waking from a dream before. Also produced by loud noises around me as I slept: neighbors slamming their doors on the way to breakfast, that the dream turned into me getting shot in the back. Photomorph “Fallout” (9-28-19[3]) 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 or contrasting 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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