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
Teasing the Moon
Teasing the moon out
from daylight.
Awake but wanting
to be dreaming of you.
The sun warms my face but
the other side of the bed is cold.
Hot dreams leave my heart racing
and my body damp.
The memories of your touch
fade with a clarity I don’t want.
What I need is your flesh and heat
pulling me back in a tide of dreams.
Alone the bed is a sea
of loneliness I can’t wait to leave.
Yet the dregs of the dream
hold my heart at bay.
So I am teasing the moon
out of daylight.
©Delaina J Miller 2012
passionate, it’ nice
Thank you Mom. I love you.