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 have just had a “better than I could dream it,” dream come true!
One of my poems that I wrote during the Poetic Aside challenge has put me in the limelight and I wanted to share this news with you.
My Aussie Mentor Rosemary Nissen-Wade liked my poem If I Were a Love Poem so much that she featured me in her “I Wish I’d Written This” monthly blog post on the Poets United blog.
Can you believe it?! My feet have not touched the ground. I am so honored that Rosemary chose that poem to feature.
Thank you Rosemary!
Here is the link if you would like to read it I Wish I’d Written This.
