June 11

100 Tuesdays

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100 Tuesdays

Hello everyone;

I did say "haphazardly" participating in the April PAD Challenge. This is why day one is being posted after day two.
Day 1  prompt of "write an optimistic poem"

Not Dead Yet, Me


Is it really such a tragedy

that my sentences are raggedy

words tread together by similarity?

The conversation is still defiantly

expressions of me.


Is it really such a travesty 

that I wander aimlessly?

When I can travel through time so easily

…our life history

…a life lived outrageously.


Is it really such a disparity

that I have forgotten the melody

of your name? Still there’s some clarity….

I know the feelings of family

and passions intensity. 


Is it really such an indignity

that something once familiar is now a novelty.

Or that simple tasks escape me.

I still dance to life’s jamboree

and sing majestically.

Is it really such a finality

even as I become more absentee?

There is plenty of life in my legacy.

Don’t bother writing my eulogy,

when there’s still time to create a memory.

©2024 Delaina Miller

100 Tuesdays

Dribbling
out of a hundred Tuesdays
are scratches carved black and white
on mimed paper of zeros and ones.

Words
etched
and sounds
stretched
becoming sketches of experiences lived
drawn to adorn the soul with frivolity and grace.

Lines and stanzas echoing humanity’s glory
tears
spilling
oceans
to
swim.

Emotions journey through the surreal
to the dark side
of the enlightened psyche
to find a glowing seed
sprouting dVerse.

Written for #OLN in honor of dVerse poets celebrating #week100  

 

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Creator of sounds. Poet on an energetic journey with words. Explorer of Frequencies.


 

Delaina J Miller

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    • Cheers Tony;

      I think you could be right about reading the poem itself. I like the movement, but think I will change the rate.

      Thanks for reading. Cheers!

  • …ah, i , too, was more amazed with the manner of presentation you exerted… odd but not at all disturbing… it was actually rather entertaining… what fun… smiles…

  • how cool is that…how did you manage to make the letters move…first i thought it’s because i’m so tired and they start swimming before my eyes you know…smiles…happy oln 100…smiles

    • Thanks Claudia:

      Just putting my Library Science degree to some use. I just adding a html marquee code into the lines. I thought it would put a fun spin on the “mimic paper of zeros and ones”

      Thanks for reading!

  • Thank you for the lovely post ~ My eyes were running after the words ha, like dribbling the ball ~

    Good to see you at the pub ~

  • ok now you are messing with me….ha…
    your words are moving…and i was sure that i had just read too many poems and now they were dancing..lol…that is so cool…smiles….thank you for being a part of it…

  • Wow, this is very clever. It had my head spinning a bit, but the message was well expressed! Kudos to you on the presentation.

    • Thanks Mary;

      I was just wanted to add some special spacing and whatnot. I could not figure out the html code for that so I found an alternative. 🙂

      Thanks for reading and commenting.

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