December 3

On the Shorelines of Souls

Poetry

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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.

Thinking of you Dad…

On the Shorelines of Souls

Birth brings new chance and possibilities;
a phoenix rising from ashes.

Human experience is the amber
evolved from our volcanic plumes.

From our core – the soul’s tectonic plates, pushing
us to mountains heights, dropping us to valley lows.

In death’s atmosphere, we fossilize; laminated
impressions on the souls we leave behind.

Fossils of souls embossed on humanity’s landscape
proof of the existence of life and love.

On mortality’s shore, waves churn our souls
into portable pebbles for hearts to carry.

From the shores of existence we are
a phoenix rising from ashes.

About the author

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


 

Delaina J Miller

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  • Strange, I’ve always thought of myself as this bird too. Both as a phoenix and a white dove. We are always being knocked down and having to rise up again, aren’t we?
    I love this.

    • Thank you! Love the phoenix and they many ways to look at re-birth. There are so many meanings that can be attached to a phoenix rising from the ashes. Your reading of being knocked down and rising up again add to my thoughts of reincarnation and redefined.
      Thanks for reading.
      Cheers!

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