Glimpses of a Day

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

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Here are some micro poems I wrote to capture fragments of the last two days.

Thanks for reading them. I hope you enjoy.
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dark trails
raindrops shatter
a sidewalk

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~ pretense
the heat of the day
arrives in the cover of darkness

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meal time
large wings appear
uninvited guest

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feeders sway
with reckless abandon
unexpected guest

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circling above
a hawk interrupts dinner
~ telemarketer

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