HANGING OUT WITH MOONBEAMS (photo) & "he flirts upside down..." (dream haiku) by Roswila

he flirts upside down
while clutching his barrel chest
nothing untoward


[dream haiku, dreamed/written March 2008. When I first posted this all those years ago, I did not point out its resemblance to The Hanged Man card in The Tarot. (I can’t imagine I didn’t see it, though.) Not only did that strike me on re-reading it while continuing my “reviewing my old dream haiku” project, but it hit me that The Hanged Man is my card for 2020. Explanation? Every year at Samhain (Pagan/Gaelic for Halloween) I randomly pull a card to represent some of the flavor(s) of the coming year. Then paste up a copy of that card on my bedroom wall to remind me to check in with it occasionally. Not so much for its possible predictive aspects, but for some clarity. E.g., “Ah, that’s right, that’s what’s going on!” or "OK, I get it, I have to be patient with this snafu ...," and so on. If I understand my re-discovery of this old dream haiku as part of this year’s Hanged Man “flavors,” I might have some interesting stuff comin’ down the pike! No complaints. Boredom (as I addressed yesterday here) does usually become a slight issue for me this time of year. Photomorph “Hanging Out With Moonbeams” (8-29-17 010v6) 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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