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 27 (Use an inspiration tool -Start with a title)
Listening to be Heard
A path to a new day.
Shake yesterday from last night’s dreams
a blue yoga mat unfurled
across the orange hue of the wooden floor
the dvd begins
Listening
while instructed to breath
deep slow breaths
stretch the body open
lengthen the mind to focus
push chatter into silence.
Stillness waits to be heard
ancient thoughts
starved
for attention
pay the ransom
stimulate points
Emotional Freedom Technique.
The spirit wiggles free of constraints
Silence now a whisper
center, be still, let go
meditation —
ambition’s microphone
listening to be heard
now the path is clear.
Start the day hearing
your needs.
Thank you Mom. 🙂
Lovely