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 6
Today’s prompt was to write a night poem. Usually any excuse to write about the moon would spur my poetic heart. But after spend a few days with my wonderful family: siblings, nieces, and nephews I could not resist the chance to write about My Knight…
My Knight in Teddy Bear PJ’s
He announces
his name is Frodo
though I can stay Aunt Delaina.
Wielding a sword in the air
he shouts
“Look out
behind you.”
With practiced moves
and confidence
he skillfully rescues me
time and time again
from a peril only he can see.
I thank him
though he does not understand
he frees my heart
with his innocent grin.
To read other night poems visit Poetic Aside
