CRUMPLED DREAMS (photomorph) & REMAINDERS (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

REMAINDERS

endless! filing and sorting and tossing and sorting
and filing and shredding …
I’d rather save all
my dear friend’s writing but I simply must get it
out of my way, weeded
mercilessly
and the remainders named for any (no matter how
unlikely) future retrieval,
but off my desk
and computer, and out of my paper files, now! yet
what to name what survives
my cutting eye?
ah,
that’s
a good moniker
for the remains
of her stuff, it does the massive, aching weight
of memory at least a wee bit
of poetic justice:

“Of Grasshoppers
& Shadows”


[free verse poem on a dream of 11-219. This is the last dream/poem of three that I referenced in my previous two posts. I haven’t had a chance yet to sit with these three dream/poems together and see how the inter-relate. As I’m sure they do. In fact, as I’ve mentioned here before, in my experience an evening’s dreams tend to work on a theme. Coming at it from different directions and points of view, but worrying at that theme like a bone. 😊 BTW, I was curious about the symbolism of “grasshopper” and here’s what I feel may be relevant (from an internet search): an “ability to connect and understand sound vibrations is why [s]he is also a symbol of your inner voice, [s]he could be telling you to trust yours…,” and “dreaming about a grasshopper is rather positive and indicates that you are learning important things in your life. Grasshopper brings messages of freedom when she hops into your dreams…” Need I say anything here at all about “Shadows”? As I think on it, meanings accrete like the layers of a black pearl. Yikes! That set me off googling about black pearl symbolism. If you’re interested, give it a shot yourself. Photomorph “Crumpled Dreams” (11-20-18 002v2[4]) 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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