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
To many Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s I Have A Dream speech is poetry. Today with Twitter we are expanding the poetry of King from the mall in DC to mall of social media.
Today we celebrate a man, a man that was human living in inhuman times and he dared to dream for humanity.
I am sharing the #DreamDay twitter thread here. As in most emotional moments there are those that choose to hate. Please as you read these tweets disregard the ones that bring you down and cling to those that lift you up. Life in love.
