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
Glass Ceilings
In honor of Sally Ride
In time and space limits are defined
by perception
how far could you see
from the Challenger?
How far could you see
challenging the physics
of the status quo?
Did you know the barriers you would break
when you would not feign
ignorance?
Did you know the ride of your life
would be to lift others beyond the stars?
How gracefully you exposed the secrets of science,
overshadowing your intimate mysteries.
More than one glass ceiling
shattered from your legacy
leaving a cosmic trail of your own.
This poem can now be found in The Unique & Sundry, which happens to be available on Amazon.
