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
Renovation
Hands heavy with hammer and pry bar
rip away layer after layer.
Spoiled drywall and laminate
gather in a heap of uselessness.
From old wood disturbed,
charred lumber against saw blade,
the dust that cakes on skin
the smell of childhood drifts.
Novel foundations set one tile at a time
after soundlessly pleas for council
of a voice that cannot be heard
but felt. Tiny grains of grout fill the gaps.
A thin liquid protects the weakness
that is both stone and human.
Memories, forgiveness, and courage
sealed in a room we built together with my hands.
Written and shared for #OLN at dVerse, come to the pub and verse on.
I specially like that ending ~ We have been renovating lately so this one resonated with me ~
I think renovating is the only way sometimes… we need to work on the walls and floors… both for real and metaphorically.
Awesome..
Love it..
The idea of renovation works on so many levels. I like the idea of foundations set one tile at a time. Sometimes we have to start fresh and rebuild all; but at other times the renovation is not so drastic!
oh it is good to do a bit of renovating every once and a while…re-think things…re-order things…
Nice cadence and mix of the concrete and metaphor.
Nice metaphor – and like the way you have ended the poem. Lovely.
I’m renovating myself (yes, literally, me) at the moment – literally stripping back, find the figurative solid wood beneath and starting all over again. it will be worth it in the end… Lovely
nice…we all need a bit of renovation at time…a freshening up….a cutting away of the old to make new…it takes intiative….but when done…feels so good….