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
For my family
(on my parents anniversary, which I now call Family Day.)
Family Quilt
Delaina J. Miller
A constant
refreshing
tender
loud roar
of dysfunction
that functions.
Death
rips out seams
a calico quilt
left in tatters.
Marriages,
children,
grandchildren
nieces and nephews
patch the holes
to keep bitter cold
from settling in our hearts.
Heartaches
and triumphs together;
a golden thread
to stitch, strengthen
and bind our lives
into a definable whole
we call family.
©Delaina J. Miller 2014
Family Quilt is taken from She Too: Four Voices in (Almost) Harmony.
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