November 17

A Revolutionary Communist

Free Verse, love poems, poems, Poetry, The Unique & Sundry, The Unique & Sundry: A Poetry Collection

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When someone you love is diagnosed with dementia as a caregiver your own life gets turned inside out as well. In fact probably even more as the caregiver. But really who knows? All of us are having our own experiences through our personal realities. Who are any of us to say what's real or not real in any given moment for anyone else. 

For me poetry and music have been consistent ways to examine emotions and personal growth the experience gifts me. Recently, I have found myself, once again, pulling at the threads my emotions through poetry. Some how by placing one word next to another I am able to find peace with grief. But even more powerful, I have been able to unravel the gift of the journey. 

Here are two of my most recent poems:

a cardinal rests
it’s frozen reflection
~ encapsulated
your colorful life stilled
in a lake of memories

image of guitar from the neck with the poem Sing Me overlaid.

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A Revolutionary Communist
(In memory of Leslie Feinberg)

I cut my baby butch teeth
on your Stone Butch Blues.
I always hated that term
but in this moment of goodbye
it feels almost true.

I discovered my body
between the pages
of your words.
Trans-cending
gender on my own

I learned
to embrace the grey
while you played
mother and father
rolling both into one.

You taught me to see:
that we are never what we seem,
to always look in,
and that stone is a veneer
to wear as a shield

and drop like a veil
when standing in a lover’s arms.
You taught me that revolution
was restitution and very personal.
You taught me that self is defined by one.

Today I live in your birth place
as you return home. My journey
is different than yours
and for that I give you
my everlasting gratitude.

This poem can now be found in The Unique & Sundry, which happens to be available on Amazon.

For more information on Leslie Feinberg’s passing read this article on the Advocate 

About the author

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


 

Delaina J Miller

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