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 Brody and his family
Autism Blues
The smile that breaks our hearts
shines through Autism’s fog
when, for a moment,
he looks and sees
aware of his surroundings
as if for the first time
again and again.
His attention from the noise
in his own head
turns to your active presence
in his life.
His smile warms
your blue heart
and sends it soaring
when he says
a single
voluntary
word.
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Thank you!
Great work Delaina. Love the new Blog page!
Thank you Res! 🙂