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 14
The prompt day was to write a poem finishing the title If I Were ____
If I Were the Moon
I would hear the whispers of lovers
and keep secrets safe.
I would light up the stars
so the lost would never lose their place.
I would comfort the lonely
with moonbeams dancing through trees.
Absolute darkness would not blind
the heart to beauty yet to be seen.
I would hold the tide
before I let you drown.
I would light a path throughout the night
so answers to prayers could be found.
I would inspire your dreams
then give you the sun.
To read more poetry from today’s prompt visit Poetic Aside
