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
Grateful Gatherings
Gather family, gather friends…
We gather to savor culinary delights,
While the grateful heart has its spiritual fill.
I am grateful for comforts,
Both large and small alike.
I am grateful for an airplane’s ability
To shorten distances between here and there.
I am grateful for oceans, as they fill voids
And gaps, both far and near.
I am grateful for my partner;
Who instills in me, beyond love, serenity.
I am grateful for my family;
Scattered as we may be, love holds us in perpetuity.
I am grateful for my friends;
Diverse in life and united by our empathies.
I am grateful for our evolutions;
Our discoveries, and our enlightenments.
I am grateful for our adaptabilities,
To change our  perceptions and our destinies.
All of this and more,
Gathers all – hearth and home –
In my grateful heart, in my grateful soul.
Written by Delaina Miller 11/23/2011
Thank you Golda.
Always my cheerleader and I am forever grateful.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Delaina
Probably one of the most perfect and wonderful things I have ever read honoring Thanksgiving and being grateful!!!