CONTAINMENT (photomorph) & MONKEY MIND (non-dream free verse poem) by Roswila

MONKEY MIND*

like a dark thought
the crow swoops across
my line of sight, disrupting
my concentration on the elderly
eye candy of a man biking by:
isn't that just like monkey
mind to abscond with
the sweets of the here
and now before one
even catches a
brief taste


[non-dream free verse poem written 1-13-17. *Monkey mind = a Buddhist term, put simply, meaning "uncontrollable." Photomorph "Containment" (1-14-17 006v3) 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]
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