Summer_2007_Poetry

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Medicine Show Barker

Revoked. Repulsed. Renewed. Reviewed.

I bring to you, fellow travelers

through this troubled time we live in

a potion strong and good to bring

all manner of things

you've only

dreamed.

Just dip your fancy feather quill

into this bottle I show here

and the readers of your magic words

will come and buy what 'ere you sell

and pay just what they're told.

It heals your body and your mind

don't think about your soul.

Your soul is saved, once you agree

to buy the medicine I deal.

It is a skill I have with wills.

I offer freely to you all

no matter what the cost or loss

Your words will charge

admission.

VCW

2007

Finding You

Back to back, we hold each other up

Against the odds, our love

Dreaming faces taking chase

I know you're out there

Somewhere

Moody, blue and gazing at the moon

To catch a glimpse of me

I glamorize the moon on high

Then pull it down to ground

The vision of your face

Unscathed

By memories that only work backwards

© Vera Charline Wareham

March 2007

See Saw

In an abandoned playground

a seesaw slams into the dirt.

Dust from the pounding smokes,

swirls into images of a bunny.

Having the life squeezed out,

it is held by adoring arms.

Constant squeezing.

Loved to death.

Smiles are rubbed on the soft wrinkles

between the neck and shoulder.

Tiny hands pat my back in reassurance,

everything is going to be alright.

© Vera Charline Wareham

March 2007

On this page are a few poems that I wrote this year.

I also tryed my pen in Tanka and Dreamku, which is a new form of Haiku that my friend Patricia Grace Kelly is establishing as a sort of dream study tool.

Vist her blog at

Roswila's Dream & Poetry Realm

Link doesn't work for you? Try cut and paste below. http://roswila-dreamspoetry.blogspot.com/

I received this note from Patricia in a personal email I would like to share with my viewers:

"I'd also like to add that I've been invited to make a presentation about dreamku at the September PsiberDreaming & The Creative Arts conference of The International Association for the Study of Dreams. (Watch my dreams and poetry blog for details as they become available.) In addition, I'm planning to start a dreamku group blog in the fall. A group blog is one that those who join can post to, and make and receive comments on."

Dreamku 2007

Barn stall holds spotlight

Man-size white owl spreads his wings

My wired package squirms

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Dreamku 2007

three tattered pieces

a puzzle shuffled to fit

spells H-O-M-E

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Haiku 2007

Hidden, she watches

Through rain-drenched walls of wild vines

Wolf-dogs eyes and hers

(I think that this should have been a tanka,

and I am goinging to rewrite it as such soon.)

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Turning Into Ash

How can I know to even dream such horror?

An explosion

Trees blaze into ash as a moment ruptures

People walking, burst into flames

Burning before they can even scream

With only the gnashing of their skeletal teeth

Essence of their body's nerves set in motion

Creaking as they pop in faint repetitious movement

Descending into ashes and sticky black goo

Hands bound to each other as they stop twitching

With one last slow fall to the ground

How can I know to even dream such horror?

March 2007

Shadow Thief

A silken claw slides across my chest and molests me;

It digs deep to rip my heart out by its roots.

My voice chokes as I stop the murder,

Strangling the wrist of the hand that violates me.

A desperate arm-wrestle freezes in the sweat of cardiac arrest;

My hands tremble, holding back the dark thrusting fingers.

Stretching from the floor at the side of my bed,

A shadow rises, towers over me, smothers my sleep.

When I open my eyes, I see the faceless ghost of my killer

Melt back into the vampire book on the rug.

March 2007

The poems that I have written this year are based on images or feelings from recent dreams. It seems fitting then that I should mention Dreamku and the friend that has developed this new form of Haiku related verse, Patricia Kelly aka Roswila.