Memory 99

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 17 (Click on Wikipedia’s random link until you find something/things that inspire a poem)

Memory 99 came up. It is a large Corten steel sculpture by Lee Kelly.
 Wikipedia link
Here is the image link I used to draw the poem from.

http://www.kptv.com/story/19868095/sculpture-unveiled-at-newest-north-park-block

Long lines
standing tall
metal strong
bent to conform
to the artist’s hand.
Side views of stick figures
with arms in motion.
The symbol of pi
or is it two figures
locked in a kiss?
Is perhaps, the message
they are one and the same
Pi and lovers?
In reflection, life is seen
through owl eyes.
Laughter, love, and wisdom
are better shared.