October 16

Planet’tude

dVerse, Meeting the Bar

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Planet’tude

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

Image taken from: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/pluto-20100204.html
Image taken from:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/pluto-20100204.html

Jupiter talking to Saturn

Planet’tude

Psst Saturn did you hear
Pluto’s back on the list.
Planet Power Baby!
Plucky little humans
Please! We’re not down with their
Planetary banter
Patronizing Panzóns.

I’m playing with the dVerse poets for meeting the bar. Vandana Sharma is teaching us a new (to me at least) form called Pleiades. It is great fun. The form has a one word title, seven lines that start with the same letter as the title and are six syllables long.

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


 

Delaina J Miller

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  • Very clever and so much fun. This made me laugh and is written with such attitude that I will still be chuckling about it hours from now, I’m sure. Thanks 🙂

  • Funny! I was just reading this today…I think I had heard and then forgot it though…I think it’d be a sad day for a planet to be stripped of its title. 🙂

    • Yes Pluto is back! I am so glad you like this Rosemary and even more grateful that you invited me to join the dVerse group.

    • Grace after I read yours, Bjorn, and Vandana’s I knew I would have to ditch my usual. Thanks for reading and commenting. Cheers!

    • I am glad you like the poem Vandana! It was such a fun night playing with this form. Thank you for hosting the party. 🙂

    • Thank you Kathy;

      I had a lot of fun with this form and poem. I think I might have to step up my Thursday night game at the pub. 😉

    • I am so happy Pluto is back. It felt like my whole childhood was a lie when Pluto lost its planet status. (Just kidding.)

      Thanks for reading and for you comment. Cheers!

  • nice…love the kinda campy banter…you had fun with it…and rocked the form…ha…i doubt the planets worry too much on what we puny humans think…lol

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