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 28
Today’s prompt was to write a “settled” poem.
New Neighbors
Out from the cedar tree
wings stretched wide
our new neighbors built
their home in eaves of mine.
Beak load by beak load
the sides of the roost form.
Despite the roof
that shelters us both,
the mighty Wren
places a giant leaf on top
to disguise his one room shack.
Carpeted wall to wall
with cedar fresh needles
the newly settled home
is a cat proof mansion.
We try to be good neighbors.
We don’t ask them to water
when we are away
and we all keep watch
of each other’s doorways.
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