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
Day 23 (Write a poem that discusses a real moment in your life without discussing its larger meaning or attempting to lead the reader to a conclusion.)
Just Be Yourself
I was given
a list of things to avoid
— kiss boys too soon
— swing too high
— judge too quickly
I was given
a list of behaviors to adopt
— obey
— be respectable
— show compassion
I was given
a list of titles to achieve
— Wife
— Mother
— Secretary
I was given
many gifts to live by
— discipline
— shelter
— love
Permission to be myself
that came later.
I LOVE it..
AND you have,, xxoo
Thanks Mom! 🙂