STAMPEDE (photomorph) & [untitled] (dream haiku & dream monoku) by Roswila

[untitled]

a huge field of folk
burrow beneath the surface
fellow prey

I hide under my covers run to ground


[a dream haiku and a dream monoku written and posted separately in September of 2007, posted here as a pair. And, yes, these are from those ancient, handwritten dream haiku notebooks of mine that I’ve been reviewing, on and off, for a while now. I chose these as they echo much of what my experience has been like so far with “sheltering in place” due to the covid19 pandemic. The worst so far? Learning last night that my home city of New York is our country’s epicenter. Worse yet, that where I lived for almost 30 years before moving here to CA, is the epicenter of the epicenter: only six blocks from Elmhurst General Hospital in the Borough of Queens. Why that should hurt so much more than what’s going on here in extremely hard-hit CA I don’t know. But it does. Photomorph “Stampede” (Screenshots 9, 3-21-20[19]) 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]
**** 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.