BREAK OUT (photo) & THE ACCIDENTAL GIFT (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THE ACCIDENTAL GIFT

may I never forget that time you glanced toward me,
not expecting to find me standing there: the brilliance
of your smile flashing quickly across your rugged face
-- as if I were a sunrise after an abysmal night,
or the moon, when not even its appearance
felt guaranteed in a world gone awry --
and vanishing as quickly as if it had never been,
but not before I’d caught your accidental gift
and filed it away in joy; today, I pass where we
stood briefly that afternoon and am delighted
that in a world in which nothing has felt,
or been right in years, I still recall
this heady highlight of my old age …
hell, of my entire life


[non-dream poem written 11-11-19. An actual precious memory. Which right now, as I post it here, is beginning to calm me after a major melt-down. Photo “Break Out” (3460e[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 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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