January 4
Haiku
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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 indignitythat 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
In Life
Time and people pass
Among our hearts, souls, and minds
Kindness is their gift
Mankind’s treasure chest
During sorrows and triumphs
In Winters and Springs
In Life our shared vow
Is compassion endowed
A good gift to bring.
Delaina J Miller
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Beautiful..
How about changing mankind to human kind??
You are so talented.
Your poetry is so deep..
Love it..
xxoo,M
Thank you;
“Humankind is a good suggestion but it has one too many syllables to be a true haiku.
Other options I thought of were, human’s or people’s, but I did not like the flow of these words as much.
I will consider changing the word.
Thank you.
Love you,
Delaina