HOW SHOULD THIS BE LOOKED AT? (photomorph) & RELATIVE PERCEPTION (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

RELATIVE PERCEPTION

it’s a very small car, even smaller than an old VW bug,
with all sorts of small objects in it along with their attendant
problems; it would be tempting to say then that the problems
are also small but so many, along with their related people,
are crowded into a tiny space making everything appear
huge (hm, is that a lesson in perception as based in
relativity … oh, my, and there’s a pun on an ultimate
aspect of this dream … but I digress); I worm my way
out of the jumble of objects and people in the little car and
head to the beach for a swim, hoping I don’t look too terrible
in this swimsuit, well, at least it’s a decently styled “onesie”
and the lazy eye of this late summer evening is casting
a gentle eye on everything; speaking of eyes, which eye
glasses am I wearing? the teal or the new white ones? and
should I be wearing any at all to go swimming? oh, no,
there goes my brand new pair of white frame glasses,
floating away on the wavering shine of reflected moonlight
… “oh, oh, oh, dad!” I say as I turn to him where he stands,
hip deep in the ocean’s edge, somewhat closer than I to my
slowly escaping milky white glasses, “… catch them for me,
please, hurry, now, before they’re gone!” he obliges and hands
them to me quickly, a soft, inexplicably sad smile lighting his
otherwise shadowy aspect; omigosh! now I have to choose which
pair of glasses to wear (seeing a silly mental image in my dream
mind’s eye of my face with both the blue and the white pair on);
I’m distantly aware of the wet sand sucking pleasurably around
my feet as I finally decide to have my perceptions framed by
plain white, like this page before I began all this scribbling


[free verse poem on a dream of 12-25-19. Intriguing Christmas gift from some other part of myself, ey? BTW, I have a very strong association of all the smallness at the beginning to the saying “Don’t sweat the small stuff…It’s all small stuff.” 😊 Photomorph “How Should This Be Looked At?” (Screenshots 3, 10-16-19[14]) 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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