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
Fusion
It’s what we do
there is no point in denying
some under a geographic flag
some beneath religious signs.
We stand linking arms on specific sides
of political and picket lines.
Even our tongues speak
in tones and clicks
yoked in culture and history.
It’s our destiny to gather —
to know the heat of the sun
to dream in the glow of the moon.
We see the magic of a rainbow
arcing colors between the ground we stand
and the clouds where our heads are found.
Written for PoetsUnited – Midweek MotifÂ
The unity of being human is a good one. We need to remind ourselves of that.
I love all of this wonderful fusion but the rainbow and the clouds where our heads can be found made me smile 🙂
I like your poem a lot, Delaina. I do think that it is so true that humans always find a way to unify. I guess it is human nature to find some kind of similarity…whether it be political, religious, economical, racial, by age, by sex, by language. I don’t think unifying in this way is bad; but unifying also should not entail exclusivity….
It is our destiny to gather – love this line and it really captures that appreciation of all that is around us.
I wonder though if those flags, beliefs, causes – cause as much dis-unity as they do unity.
because we often see them as us against them scenarios. If you are for something
you are obviously against its opposite. I wonder if there is a way we can still
appreciate those differences and rise above them as well to find a common unity.
I love ‘dreaming the moon!’ Nicely done!
diverse in many ways united in heart….love the last stanza…
A good place to begin beneath the beauty right before our eyes.
A very thoughtful poem, written beautifully. Reading you for the first time, Delaina and absolutely loved your poem.
What a beautiful poem you’ve written Delaina. I love the unity you describe. At bottom, we’re all humans seeking a little happiness. Wish we could admit to this and let there be peace.
Delaina, so nice to see you here. I love your ideas on fusion and unity……..I especially enjoyed your last stanza, gathering in the heat of the sun, dreaming under the moon…….rooted in the ground, heads in the clouds.
This is lovely.. quite a thoughtful piece 🙂
We are fragmented in a lot many ways. We stand under the banners of nations and religions. But in the end, we are indeed united in our wonders and dreams. Very well-penned.