Mindful Writing Challenge: Day 31

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

The Deer

In the storm’s quiet
I see you.
Bedded down
on white ground
your peace, consuming.
Tree branches create
the haystack
you are the needle in.

A scene of wintery-land
and serenity.
Caught in my camera’s
lens you are safe.
My beating heart watches you
protects you
from my own warm lair.
In a jump you are gone.

Shared for the Mindful Writing Challenge 2013