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
Witnesses
Among the feather flurry
the dogwood and I stand
witnesses to incidence.
Impatient you chase the others
from each suet cage
a colorful pandemonium
First the male downy
then the female.
At an empty cage the nut hatch has a go
but no, you must have that too.
Intimidating the Jay the sparrows know
there’s no way they are going to get pass.
Your yellow tail tucked as you nibble
the tree fills with noisy protests.
Only the cardinal sits
in silence dissents.
The dogwood holds up its arms
I just stare. I have not spied
a Northern Flicker at the tree before.
Shared for Mindful Writing Challenge 2013