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 4
Today’s prompt was to write a Since____ Poem. So of course it had to be this….
Since I Said Yes
The orange cones of marriage laws
have changed from road closed
to ‘road work ahead.’
A rainbow of crystals sparkle
from my second finger in
next to the sentimental band from our fifth.
Support weeps
a sap to sweeten
bitter blows of the past.
Hearts of family and friends reveal
they have been our corner for years
cheering us more than our visions dared.
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