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
Today’s Small Stone was inspired by Christine Yablonski’s Small Stone (Thank You!)
Before Dawn
Today’s observation comes
light through small cracks.
Early hours and clouds hold daybreak
behind a dark gate unseen.
The day will be one of play
maybe see some art on display.
Sights and sounds gently stir
under sky’s dark cloak.
School bus lights shine through a window’s crack
It parks here and waits every day.
A jay calls, a dog barks, in the park
the family of hawks hunt for prey.
Among the dark our house glows
light leaks through the blinds small cracks.
Anticipation worn like a model’s robe
our first glimpse of the day reveal
But its story still untold.
Shared for Mindful Writing Challenge 2013