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
An Ode to a Voice
Out – from of a library shelf you looked at me
I reached out
touching your color
peeling back the covers
that hold your words
floating black ribbons
meander from white paper
across my virgin flesh
your vocal intonations
a seduction
of courage and whet incentives
an awakening
through syllabic art
transcribing the possibility of one’s true essence.
Written to celebrate the anniversary of dVerse Poets Claudia is tending and setting the bar high. We are all writing odes to poets.
very sensual..whew..
🙂 Thank you Mom/Nancy
Whet incentives 🙂 love the word play here….seductive write.
Thank you Nara. I really enjoyed reading your poem as well.
A voice. Carefully selected. Lovingly read. Connected. 🙂
Thank you Linda!
cool capture of that magic which a book can hold if we dare to peel back the covers and let us win by what it holds..
Thank you Claudia. This was poem rooted in a true experience that is for sure. I glad you like it that means a lot to me. Cheers!
a seduction of courage
and whet incentives…ha…
yes, words have that power,
to wrap us…and transcribe
the possibility…
cool write…and really enjoyed th review of your book….
Thank you Brian! Also a very huge thank you for the nice review you gave us on the book. I know you are busy and it meant a lot to us that you would review She Too for us. Cheers!