Graffiti Poetry: Soul Decanted

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

Graffiti Poetry

Created and Shared with dVerse – Anna Montgomery in Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft

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Delaina J Miller

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Great blog tagline – and imaginatively presented in your graffiti poem: swirl, sip, spit, repeat – just like wine or whisky tasting.

Delaina says:

February 23, 2013 at 06:07

Thanks Tony and thank you for reading. Cheers!

Nice one.

Delaina says:

February 23, 2013 at 06:13

Thanks Rosemary and thanking for reading :).

What a fabulous perspective… souls decanted! I pondered the phrase in a literal sense and find it so apt. The opening up, releasing initial impressions, then adding color notes to complete the experience. Clever!

http://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2013/02/22/it-is-written-vehicles-of-the-word/

Delaina says:

February 22, 2013 at 17:38

Thank you Kim;
It is really how I feel about poetry in general. The airing of emotions,swirling them in the light, watching their effects against our glass souls; and how how it is like decanting wine. 🙂
Thanks for reading!

soul decanted…ha…that’s great.. swirl…sip..spit..repeat…i like

Delaina says:

February 22, 2013 at 06:32

Thank you Claudia;

It Soul Decanted is my “tag”-line last night’s prompt was perfect to let me play with it some. I might even change my header. What do you think? 🙂

Love the playfulness of this. Beautiful and simple, but also thought-provoking.

Delaina says:

February 22, 2013 at 06:29

Thanks Susan I was hopeful for playful deep, as graffiti can be very powerful in few words. It was another fantastic night hanging with the dVerse crowd that is for sure. Thanks for reading.

Ooh! I like it. Like a shampoo bottle instruction label for spoken word 🙂

Delaina says:

February 22, 2013 at 06:27

🙂 Thanks Gretchen I had not thought of the shampoo similarities…rinse and repeat.Thank you for reading and commenting 🙂

So glad you got a chance to make some graffiti and go multimedia. Makes me want to hit the repeat button, like a little kid and say ‘Again!’

Delaina says:

February 21, 2013 at 20:31

Thanks for stopping by Anna but thank you for the prompt and the like to the graffiti it was a lot of fun to just that a moment and play. 🙂

Ha! Looks like we had the same idea for format. Nice.

Delaina says:

February 21, 2013 at 20:33

Hey Charleen great minds think alike hua? 😉
Thank you for reading,
cheers!

swirls sip spit repeat…ha, love it….great title too…soul decanted…evocative itself…

Delaina says:

February 21, 2013 at 19:48

Thanks Brian;
Just having a little fun and playing with my tagline Ha!