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
Beauty
Beauty is the light
that comes from within
curling around the heart
as it fills the soul.
Beauty’s elegance is not
purity or even symmetry alone
but the energy that springs to life
when we see it… touch it…feel it.
Beauty is not owned by innocence
yet we get lost in the wonder of it,
revel in its powerful effects,
and worship its grander.
How could we not, when we witness
beauty dancing in orb shaped windows,
inspiring our souls to take flight
in the sensation of it all.
©Delaina J Miller 2012
Art work courtesy of Elspeth Murdoch
Thank you for the inspiration Elspeth
