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
The Eradication of Poverty
Is one day enough
to chase away poverty’s demons?
Is one day enough
to empower the world’s poor?
Is one day enough
to build peace when we budget war?
Is one day of dialogue, one day to
spin the wheel of abundance enough?
One day to say “That’s it!
Enough of the violence
that poverty reaps”.
Enough of the scarcity
when our shores are rich with ideals.
Enough of the deficiency
when our gardens are ripe for harvest.
Enough of the paucity
when we can feast upon prosperity.
Enough of the hardship
when there are dreams to nurture.
Enough! There is enough
empowerment for all to harvest.
There is a bountiful wealth
to be sown and secured.
There is enough for all
to rise from poverty’s grip
and obtain emancipation.
One day is enough
to chase away poverty’s demons.
© Delaina J Miller 2012
http://www.un.org/en/events/povertyday/
