January 19

Mindful Writing Challenge: Day 19

Mindful Writing Challenge 2013, Poetry, prose poem

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When someone you love is diagnosed with dementia as a caregiver your own life gets turned inside out as well. In fact probably even more as the caregiver. But really who knows? All of us are having our own experiences through our personal realities. Who are any of us to say what's real or not real in any given moment for anyone else. 

For me poetry and music have been consistent ways to examine emotions and personal growth the experience gifts me. Recently, I have found myself, once again, pulling at the threads my emotions through poetry. Some how by placing one word next to another I am able to find peace with grief. But even more powerful, I have been able to unravel the gift of the journey. 

Here are two of my most recent poems:

a cardinal rests
it’s frozen reflection
~ encapsulated
your colorful life stilled
in a lake of memories

image of guitar from the neck with the poem Sing Me overlaid.

Found Letter

Found one letter un-addressed. I wrote to myself over a decade ago.
Life instructions scribbled on a scrap of journal paper. Written by the timid
looking for the soul’s purpose. Emotions filled my eyes as I read the eagerness
of my own voice. The plea, to share my emotions since I carry my heart
on a sleeve. “Your job is to feel and express life on the blank pages ahead of you.”
Winter sun magnifies heat through open windows. It could be that the best advice I ever gave,
was the guidance I just received.

 

Shared with Mindful Writing Challenge 2013

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About the author

Creator of sounds. Poet on an energetic journey with words. Explorer of Frequencies.


 

Delaina J Miller

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