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
Day 25
The prompt of the day was to write a last straw poem.
Before it is too Late
I’d like to make amends
to all living things
to the rivers and trees
to the sky and the glens.
I offer a sincere apology
for thoughtless words
for neglectful deeds
for the blind spots outside of me.
I seek mercy
for dalliances left in disarray
for excuses left to hold the blame
for moments squandered in fury.
I ask for the grace
to sing and dance as I please
to strengthen life with poetry
to offer diversity a commonplace.
All before it is too late.
To read more last straw poems visit Poetic Asides
