ABSTRACTION (photo) & "ANOTHER" (mixed format, non-dream poem) by Roswila

“ANOTHER”

another morning …
given that the operative word
there is “another,”
I suppose I could be grateful
even for this arthritic pain

for this battle ground my body’s become,
for the all-out siege I wake up to each day

pain entrenched in joint after joint as I
gather myself to push it all back again

grateful when I manage to wrestle it away (if
barely enough) to get on with another morning


[non-dream tanka capped by three 2-liners, written the morning of 1-24-19. Photomorph “Abstraction” (2013 folder, or earlier) 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 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]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

WHAT'S GIRL TO DO? (photomorph) & STORY TIME (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

STORY TIME

we keep coming back
to the unfinished under-story,
after all, he intones,
this mythology that’s playing out
is the truest story of them all

I wish that woman
who keeps insinuating herself
into all levels
of my life, obvious or hidden, were
also a myth, in that sense of “not real”

but she matches this mythology, this spine of my life,
not only with her subtle influence but her tenacity

and not for the first
time I wonder what myth she’s playing out
that is hers alone,
even as she extrudes this endless parable,
this haunting made manifest, into my own


[two tanka, a 2-liner, and a capping tanka, on a dream of 1-22-19. Photomorph “What’s A Girl To Do?” (Jan. 2013 folder, or earlier) 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 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]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.

THE CHASM (photomorph) & REFLECTING (mixed format dream poem) by Roswila

REFLECTING

that man I can’t stand
in waking life who pesters me with
phony flirtation
leaving me feeling heavily slimed,
follows me into a realistic dream

OK, I can’t control him in waking life
but you’d think I’d not have invited him here

to appear in this theater of my mind, even if
all players here are subject to transformation

to being morphed by the weight of the message
they carry, like mutable camels or mules,

since (of course) he’s the same obnoxious guy as ever:
so, is he a straight-out warning to my waking self

or worse, a living mirror making an end run
around denial to reflect my own deepest shadow


[tanka with five 2-liners on a dream of 1-17-19. “Shadow” here is meant in that psychological sense of unconscious negative contents. The “dark side,” if you will. Photomorph “The Chasm” (January 2013 folder, or earlier) 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 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.

* * * *

until next time, keep dreaming,





[a/k/a Patricia Kelly]
**** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or poems, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”). Roswila's other blog (dedicated to her photos only, i.e. no poetry or other writing; daily post); TRYING TO HOLD A BOX OF LIGHT.