April 13

PAD 2014 – A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

Free Verse, PAD 2014, Poetry

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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 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

Day 11

The prompt today was to write a statement as the title and let the poem expand or finish the statement.

P1000230

A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

The moon hangs high
and the slumbering sun flips over
smiling at the earth’s other side.
There’s no time to waste
the train’s on time and we are late.
Grab your bag
don’t hesitate.
Just over there the sun swims
in a crystal lake.
Tomorrow lies ahead
and my love won’t end.
Your dreams await
beyond the garden gate
where you can ride the moon
and kiss the stars.
It does’t all make sense, that’s true
but dreams rarely do.

To read more poems from this prompt go to Poetic Aside

About the author

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


 

Delaina J Miller

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