Spiritual Writing Challenges and Small Stones

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

I’m doing it again.

I am participating in the Mindful Writing Month Challenge conducting by Satya Robyn Buddhist Priest at Amida Mandala Buddhist Group, the co-founder of Writing OurWay Home, and the inventor of Small Stones.

I love doing these monthly challenges because they encourage me to plant my bum in a chair and write for the sake of writing and fulfillment.

Occasionally I write a poem I am particularly pleased with. Sometimes they are simply small stones or micro poems that make me smile.

I hope as my writings come, in whatever form, they bring you a smile, a hint of hope, and a warm glow.