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
In all sincerity the following poem is an offering of thanks to Brian Miller, Claudia Schoenfeld, and all of the dVerse pub tenders that have provided our poems a poetic easel to prop up our poems and a sense of belonging. Â It is also a thank you to Bjorn Rudberg and all for taking the tap’s helm.
It has been a true gift to have dVerse and the dVersers that frequent this fine virtual space. Thank you all!
An Offering
A connection
in verse
for the sake of form,
function, or to deform
an archaic gaze
of the could be wrong.
A tap on the shoulder
a nudge to try
throwing voice
to virtual stars.
It all happens here
while straddling wild breaks
and syllabic rhymes.
What at first gaze
appear as images in sound
are much more
renderings given life.
It is #OLN at the dVerse pub tonight and Claudia shakes a mean martini of image and sound. Come join the fun!
I really like the line about throwing our voices to virtual stars.
Thank you Colleen! 🙂
Can but echo your fine sentiments! 🙂
Thank you Rosemary. That is quite the complement. <3
you are right it is a special opportunity =)
Thank you Janet!
that connection in verse… and the connection of each sound to make poetry work… so precious…
it was also the people i found on the internet that pulled me into poetry… i couldn’t do without that connection anymore…
heartfelt thanks dear lady…smiles
Claudia I hope you find the connection you need. Your support and voice has been a great influence on my experience here at the pub. I wish you the best.
what appears as image in sound…I like that!!
in state, faithful lying
Thank you! 🙂
What a wonderful way to capture the essence of why we come and continue to come back to the poetry pub. I love it and hope for many many more years of this place.
Thank you Bjorn! Also thanks for taking the helm so we can continue to thrive in this wonderful space. Cheers!
You have captured the essence of what we’ve been serving up these many years – first at One Stop Poetry and then at d’Verse Poets Pub – we have had the joys, thrills, and heartbreaks of becoming a community of poets who have bared their souls and shared their personal lives with those who were part of this talented community. The support and positive reinforcement flows down from the top – we have always been able to depend on reinforcement and hurrahs from Brian and Claudia as they gave us themselves in their own brilliant poetry. Thank you for this response. It is very much appreciated by all of us and by B&C particularly I am sure.
Thank you Gay and thank you for all that you have done to make dVerse a wonderful place to be.
This is a great ode not only to Brian and Claudia but also to the poetry blogosphere and the support and attentive ear/eye we find there. Hope to see you again as the helm passes into different hands.
Thank you Gabriella! Yes I will be at the pub as often as possible. Cheers!
Ah, I love the ‘connection in verse’ we all have here at dVerse. Those taps on the shoulder (of encouragement, I think) are appreciated gestures within community, I think. I always enjoy your work!
Thank you Mary! I am glad you got it! You always do!
When it comes to meter, feet, counting syllables, & specific rhyme, I generally find myself on the Could-Be-Wrong school of endeavor; yet most of us take a shot, & once out of ten tries hit the FFA/MTB mark, as my departed father-in-law used to say, “Sometimes the old blind sow can find the cabbage.”
Haha Great saying Glenn! Thanks for reading!
This is a fitting poem of poetry itself, reminding us to form and deform styles as a creative act.
Thank you Adriana! It was great getting to know your voice too. Cheers!
I love the connections with make with our verses ~ Different styles from different folks ~
Thank you Grace! Our different styles coming together at dVerse is just one of the things I love about this community!
its rather an ode to poetry itself there in the end…the sound meaning contrcuts and images becoming so much more…life…
and thank you delaina, sharer of my last name and sister of another mother…ha
Oh Bother of a different mother and sharer of my last name my gratitude overflowth. 🙂
ha. stay in touch delaina…i will as well..
Thank you Brian! Will do 🙂
A wonderful homage to the caretakers of the Pub – loved the lines
A tap on the shoulder
a nudge to try
throwing voice
to virtual stars.
Thank you Kathleen! The encouragement and support that pours out of dVerse does give one the courage to throw their voice to the stars. 🙂