BALLAD FOR THE MOON (photomorph) & "her car's rocket boost..." (dreamku) by Roswila

her car’s rocket boost:
isn’t that cheating, even if at last
she’ll reach the moon?


[dreamku on a dream of 2-19-20. Photo “Ballad for the Moon” (Screenshots 9, 2-20-20[5]) by Roswila]

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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.

SPRING TUMBLES IN (photomorph) & THE VIEW FROM A BALCONY (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

THE VIEW FROM A BALCONY

… and there you go, walking steadily away from
me as usual, toward some goal I can make a pretty
good guess at but don’t feel compelled to anymore;
your broad shoulders briefly block the bright white
bloom of light off an even more distant car window,
its now snuffed out nova-like beauty recalling
the passion I had for you, back when I still believed
in an unconscious way that I’d stay young forever
(or at least, not bear this increasing decrepitude):
didn’t my intensely lively desire for you prove that?
a glorified desire the likes of which I’d not known
in all the earlier years of frustrated yearning towards
some male of the species … and you walk on through
this soft almost spring afternoon, the bloom
reappearing as you reach the car and then pass it by,
its stunning white, windmill-like arms already shrinking
as the sun’s angle changes, as distant and ultimately
fleeting as that now faded passion for you


[non-dream poem written 2-17-20. Photomorph “Spring Tumbles In” (Archival Old Pix 7, 29293b2[2]) 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.

SCRIBBLES (photo) & AGAINST THE WALL (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

AGAINST THE WALL

why this need not only to dig it all up, but
to express it? decades of pain exhumed
and for what? the perpetrators won’t ever
hear of it and even if they did would not
recognize her, much less themselves in the
agonizing memories that line her inside
life like dried blood and artificial flowers;

and yet, she persists in remembering, turning
over rock after rock to find the fractured
aspects of her life, fragments she put down
herself, mostly mercy killings but many
a matter of self-defense, and buried;

some expressed, some not, but
all seen for how they were broken:
by betrayals and rejections,
lies and promises never even
intended to be kept,
humiliations and outright assaults,
each lobbed at her in its own time
like a hail of stones, as she stood,
once again backed up alone against
the impossible wall of life;

her own writing snaking across the wall,
writhing beneath her shoulder blades
like living graffiti


[non-dream, free verse poem written 2-15-20. Yeah, big time self-pity here. But, it too, needs expression. At least for me, or all it does is fester and make things worse. And, to a certain degree, it’s not self-pity in that I do think I’ve had a rougher row to hoe than many folk. I could go on explaining that but won’t. Suffice it to say that the introverted intuitive artistic type suffers a lot at the hands of this society. Even as it yearns to share what it has discovered and/or created. Not to leave out, of course, the prejudices and sexual abuses I suffered as a woman and as a girl-child, and especially as a large-bodied woman. Then there’s the admittedly strangely innocent way I have of understanding many things that people miscomprehend and often take unreasonable offense at, and so on. There’s more, but what I’ve said so far is more than enough for comments to a rather meh poem. Photo “Scribbles” (Archival Old Pix 1, 10007ed[2]) 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.

CAN'T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER (photomorph) & STREET SCENE AT MIDNIGHT (free verse dream poem) by Roswila

STREET SCENE AT MIDNIGHT

the shadow woman’s so dark and featureless,
how can I tell she’s a woman, yet I can, and
even at this distance I see that she’s solid,
flesh-like, not your usual, smokey phantom;
maybe it’s that Devil-in-the-form-of-a-Queen
standing behind her that outlines her deep
darkness quite clearly, like a very bright sun;

and how do I know these two odd figures are
married? this Devil-Queen in her royal, old
timey finery, leaning possessively against
the back of this solidified phantom woman,
yet I do know they handfasted long ago;

and, somehow, I also sense I should be
more than able to comprehend what all this
says to me, but there they stand in a fuzzy
circle of pale lamp light, like a frozen
semaphore symbol awaiting translation
before morphing into the next part
of the message


[free verse poem on a dream of 2-14-20. Another dream that’s jam packed. But that’s not to say I feel I’ve gotten a good grip on it, I haven’t. The most central idea here may be that of Jung’s concept of the shadow. However, many other sorts of associations and ruminations rise each time I read this dream/poem. Photomorph “Can’t Have One Without the Other” (12-6-09 8515 v2d) 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.