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 10
Today’s prompt was to write a future poem. So naturally I wrote about things I want to see in the future…
Signs of the Future
Doomsday believers
with placards and cardboard signs
that read:
The End is Near!
The End is Here!
Jesus is Coming!
The letters bold and red
carry the weight of despair.
No Hallelujahs to inspire lips
starve the spirit.
Around the corner
draped over youthful shoulders
her sign reads
The Future is NOW!
In that moment
past, present, and future unite.
It is now the future
Let the signs read:
Abundance Thrives!
Gratitude Lives!
We are, the saviors we need!
To read more future poems check out Poetic Aside.
