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 22
Today’s prompt was to write an optimistic and/or a pessimistic poem.
Earth Half Full
Signs of winter almost gone
trees no longer completely bare.
Buds and blooms dot the space
between branch and earth
as Nature watercolors
here and there.
White with pink frills
on a dogwood bloom
next to the magnolia tree.
Tulips bright yellow, orange,
and purple deep with the beauty
of the night.
A splash
of optimistic delight
comes to life
on this, only slightly chilly,
Earth Day night.
To read more poems for the day visit Poetic Asides
