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
A Wish for Change
III
A simple wish for change
in 2013 that we never forget
where we have been
while grasping the potential
of where we could be
and what we could become.
To live in love
and love in life untethered
from fears hidden in darkness.
A wish for change
that no child is afraid
to learn, to grow, to be.
A wish for change
that no school has to be
armed to be safe.
A wish for change
that violence
is known only in history.
A wish for change
that shouting yields
to talking.
A wish for change
that compassion, empathy,
and service are universal norms.
In all of this is a wish of change
for our world, for our nations
for you, and for me in 2013.
©Delaina J Miller 2012
Shared with dVerse Poetics: Change & Turns
Firstly, apologies for my tardiness!! and happy new year. Wow, this is mantra if ever I read one. I wish for all of these things too. It a shame that so much would have to change in order for this list to be completed, BUT, I guess we start one bit at a time…and we have to keep trying…super positive poem… liked t v much
Cheers Stuart!
Thank you for visiting and reading. Here’s Hoping!
compassion, empathy, and service. a potent list for a better world. and A Happy New Year too!
Thank you for reading Jane. Happy New Year!
..ah, i am with you in all of these you wished for change… amen… happy new year.. smiles..
Thank you Kelvin 🙂
a wish for change that no child has to be afraid any more..a good thing not to give up and believe and do our small part to make the earth a better place in 2013…happy new year to you..
Thank you for reading Claudia, together we can make our world safer. 🙂
To be untethered by fear, that is a wonderful aspiration. May we all find freedom in this new year to truly live. Lovely inspiration!
Thank you for reading Lori. Here here for untethered fear! Happy New Year!
A wonderful well thought list of wishes. I wish they will all come true. Especially that children be safe in schools.
Thank you for reading Nara here is too children being safe in 2013 and beyond. 🙂
Wonderful wishes 🙂 I hope you have a Happy New Year !
Thank you for reading Ayala. Happy New Year!
A wish for change is heartfelt and although a wish there is hope for a better way hope that love wins over the darkness. A wish I echo with you. Thank you for sharing. Smiles.
Cheers! Thanks for reading.
Wonderful wishes… I hope for the same.
Happy New Year!
Thank you Laurie 🙂
I like the idea very much of not forgetting where we were but thinking about what we could become. That is a wonderful attitude toward change.
Thank you Mary. Like you poem said “change is inevitable. 🙂
Nice poem. I hope 2013 brings about lots of change.
Thank you Gretchen I hope 2013 brings the changes you need.
Cheers,
Delaina
To live in love
and love in life untethered…not a bad way to live at all…that the children could live unafraid is for me a big thing as well…sounds like a wish i could hope for as well…smiles.
Thank you Brian for taking the the time to read. When I was in school I only had to worry about the odd teacher that abused their power. My nieces and nephews don’t have it so good.