August 28

Veils

Poetry

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When someone you love is diagnosed with dementia as a caregiver your own life gets turned inside out as well. In fact probably even more as the caregiver. But really who knows? All of us are having our own experiences through our personal realities. Who are any of us to say what's real or not real in any given moment for anyone else. 

For me poetry and music have been consistent ways to examine emotions and personal growth the experience gifts me. Recently, I have found myself, once again, pulling at the threads my emotions through poetry. Some how by placing one word next to another I am able to find peace with grief. But even more powerful, I have been able to unravel the gift of the journey. 

Here are two of my most recent poems:

a cardinal rests
it’s frozen reflection
~ encapsulated
your colorful life stilled
in a lake of memories

image of guitar from the neck with the poem Sing Me overlaid.

Veils

Just try!
Just try to see me.

Through the veils
I am sultry.

Veiled
I am mysterious.

Shrouded in scarlet
I am lover.

Hooded in lace
I am bride.

Just try!
Just try to see me.

My eyes cloaked
within shadows.

Only one eye
revealed to you.

My secrets concealed
behind sealed lips.

Even my body
obscured from your gaze.

Oh won’t you please just try!
Just try to see me.

Alive with desires
my aspirations visible through lace.

Shy without words
my silence so loud but you can hear.

Tender with love
I’m open for your touch.

Keen with thoughts
revealing my intensity.

Please just try!
Just try to see me.

Behind the veil’s
defense.

Under the veil’s
labels.

Without the veil’s
screen.

Beneath the veil’s
layers.

Just try!
Just try to see me,
in your mirror.

©Delaina J Miller 2012

 

Art work courtesy of Elspeth Murdoch
Thank you for the inspiration Elspeth

About the author

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


 

Delaina J Miller

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