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
time marked in seasons
earth spins on axial tilt
fall and spring host guests
against a blue sheet
the sun sits, lower in the sky
autumn’s ball of flame
green turns to yellow
temperatures and leaves drop
dew changes to frost
winter releases its bite
nibbled out in highs and lows
sweaters unpacked
equatorial passage
hemispheric time line
pleasant paradise
summer travels South
Australian beaches sparkle
chill still rides the waves
Southern stories change
longer days mean warmer nights
monsoon for Bandicoot