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
Catch & Release
Among Sedona’s red pillars
we chase love like butterflies.
Passion came to a fiery end
a gorge too deep to cross.
With memories of your laughter,
the ominous glint of your eyes,
and the price of your touch —
I return to that same sky
among the sanguine stone
to release us completely
back into the stream
that our laughter swam
to purify and love again.
Written and shared for  Poetics- at dVerse CC has served up the prompt of natures ability to heal, sooth, and inspire.
“and the price of your touch”
I first misread this as “… the price of your tongue,” which is also really interesting.
I also love these beautiful lines:
“Passion came to a fiery end
a gorge too deep to cross”
“among the sanguine stone”
And oh, that wonderful ending:
“to release us completely
back into the stream
that our laughter swam
to purify and love again”
This is so good!
Life is emotional connection
to other humans and
the rest of Nature..
heart as emotion
spirit as
connection
and balancing
of mind and body
balance always now..
Meaning of Life SOUL..)
I love the first stanza of this, but I’m glad you didn’t stop there but continued on to the return and healing in the place where you “chased love like butterflies.” Peace, Linda
I have been in Sedona and hiked the red-rocks with my kids. It is indeed a lovely place.
“Passion came to a fiery end / a gorge too deep to cross.”…haunting and sad though there was much fun in chasing love like butterflies…at last the crystallization of memories…beautiful…
This is beautiful…makes me want to return again to Sedona!
Sedona – such memories of it from years past before it became so popular. I like the message in this.From the delicate beginning, to the passionate middle, to the gentle and affirming end. Catch and release…such a different, but yet, similar meaning from the original definition.
I wonder if sometimes we have to let go in order find our way back …this is a place of power and energy…one would surely find peace…
I admire the contrast of emotions, the fiery passion ending, and afterwards to release and be cleanse by memories of love & laughter ~
Beautiful writing ~
Sedona, land of ochre portals & humming metaphysical energies; visited it 10 years ago, & was nearly mugged by pushy real estate developers–nearly every shop/museum was a front for scams; but the sheer beauty of the place trumps the ballyhoo. Your poem is fab, sharing or imagining love among the red stones, & loss. I liked your lines /passion came to a fiery end/a gorge too deep to cross/.
This is absolutely lovely.. loved the images here 🙂
It can be so hard to let go but this is superb!
Delaina….this touches me on a deeply personal level as I have such difficulty letting go. I love the lessons of ‘release’ here and the imagery of purification in the same stream the love swam in….lush and healing visuals there. Also, “a gorge too deep to cross”—wow, that just pierces right to the heart of it. Thank you for linking up with this heartfelt poem.
I like the playfulness of chasing love like butterflies. It contrasts nicely with loves end. Staring across that chasm I felt my heart ache a bit. I like though how you came back to this same place to let go/release. I think sometimes you have to do that before you can appreciate a place again – and relearn love.
Ah, Sedona. I have memories of this incredible place from the early 60’s, before it was known by so many. There is really an energy there that touches one on a deep level.