February 5

Gifts Found In Life

Poetry

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When someone you love is diagnosed with dementia as a caregiver your own life gets turned inside out as well. In fact probably even more as the caregiver. But really who knows? All of us are having our own experiences through our personal realities. Who are any of us to say what's real or not real in any given moment for anyone else. 

For me poetry and music have been consistent ways to examine emotions and personal growth the experience gifts me. Recently, I have found myself, once again, pulling at the threads my emotions through poetry. Some how by placing one word next to another I am able to find peace with grief. But even more powerful, I have been able to unravel the gift of the journey. 

Here are two of my most recent poems:

a cardinal rests
it’s frozen reflection
~ encapsulated
your colorful life stilled
in a lake of memories

image of guitar from the neck with the poem Sing Me overlaid.

Gifts Found In Life

(Another poem for Judy, one I think she would have liked)

 

Life in all its splendor

puts our hearts in a blender

mixing our souls

so that we can find wonder.

 

To have lived and seen it all

is a gift in and of itself. Yet

life’s gift is so much more.

 

It is the song of Cactus Wren,

the sun’s rebirth and its

lightshow as it sets.

 

It is a resurgence of life seen

in a flower’s springtime bloom.

Or the of the grief of an Autumn

leaf that becomes a winter home.

 

All of this, a gift

given because we live.

 

We come into living,

one by one, creating a paradise

through the gifts we bring –

 

our light, our laughter our love.

We share in life as we love,

and love some more.

 

When storms roll in we see

beauty in what they bring

and what they leave behind.

 

We marvel in their power

and ponder how we relate.

 

A chance to live,

to breath,

to love.

 

To cherish all that life offers

in all its various forms. Us knowing

too soon the autumn leaf will shelter,

 

us as we rest, to bloom again

…inside the hearts of those that loved

us for the gifts our life brought them.

 

©Delaina Miller February 4, 2012

About the author

Creator of sounds. Poet on an energetic journey with words. Explorer of Frequencies.


 

Delaina J Miller

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  • Another beautiful poem. I feel so much of your life, spirit and emotion as I read these. You have an amazing gift.

    Love,
    Golda

    • Thank you Golda;

      You are so wonderful. I am glad to hear that so much of me came through these poems. Thank you for your kind words, support, and love.
      Love,
      Delaina

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