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
It is kinda hard to believe how She Too (the poetry anthology) and Interactions (the art and poetry show) are coming together at about the same time. Wow! who knew so much could get done in a short amount of time.
For your entertainment here is a book trailer of She Too: Four Voices in (Almost) Harmony…
I hope you enjoy the book trailer!
Also if you live in the Kansas City area don’t forget to enjoy First Friday at the Wheat Photography Gallery (1803 Wyandotte st. KCMO). August 1st from 6-9pm you can sip wine and respond face-to-face with my poetry as it interacts with the vivacious contemporary art of Elisabeth Spillman-Nord in our art and poetry show Interactions.
