WHICH WAY FROM HERE (photo) & THE HIGH ROAD (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THE HIGH ROAD

maybe she’s dizzy so often these days
because she has to take the high road,
again and again, ride way above
all this small stuff people
(and to be honest, she, too)
whip up into an immobilizing morass,
a latter-day tar pit;
true, she feels much lighter and freer
up here, in the higher reaches
(as they say in 12 Step programs:
to feel good, you have to do good)
and she’d just get busy enjoying
the wider view,
but for this vertiginous fear
that she might be rising
way out of her element


[non-dream free verse poem written 10-18-19. Funny enough, I was looking down on my world when I drafted this poem. I was sitting on the library balcony that overlooks our retirement community's pool. 😊 I’d actually had the idea for this poem a couple days ago. That memory, combined with an especially dizzy day (I really am dealing with various intensities of vertigo episodes these day), may be why I recalled the idea. Photo “Which Way From Here” (ss-3 10-16-19[10]) by Roswila: This photo is a very old one of mine, taken on a second floor balcony of our retirement community, on the other side of the complex of buildings from the pool area. The photo title does not reference this but the many different directions, including up or down, one can go from there. I must admit that what drew me to take this pic many years ago, however, were all those shadows and lines -- love 'em (as well as that contrast to the puffy greenery).]

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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