April 30

PAD – 2014 Finished!

Free Verse, PAD 2014, Photos, 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.

It is the last day of the Poem A Day challenge. I’m sorry to say goodbye to this wonderful adventure and I am already looking forward to next April. This challenge was a good reminder that the impossible ready does take just a moment longer.

I hope you have enjoyed this journey as much as I have and I already have a poem for the first of May. Thank you for reading and for your kind words of support in the comments. Though I do write in part for myself feedback and comments make it feel less like I am writing in vacuum.

Day 30 write a calling it a day poem.

finished

Finished!

Standing over thirty pots of clay
she she rubs her palms together.
I have done all I can do.
Planted in neat and crooked rows
it is up to nature now. Let’s see
how many April showers will spill
into May. And how many poems
will bloom in the hearts of strangers.

To read more “calling it a day” poems visit Poetic Asides

About the author

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


 

Delaina J Miller

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  • your Poems, day to day, have been a treat to read.
    Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent..
    xxoo, M

    • Thank you so much. You kind words fill my heart. Thank you for always supporting me and my words. <3

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