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
Never Mind
It’s not for us.
It’s for others
that costumed game.
We can listen to “Canon in D”
anytime, we own the cd.
We will wait
for Someday
when all can play the aisle game.
Besides white is not
our color.
When a lifetime could be spent
in the sparkle of your eyes
why care about bling
on on a finger that doesn’t even point.
Priest written vows sworn
in front of family and friends
and a heap of people we don’t know.
Please, what can be more powerful
than the poetry we write
in love’s floodlight.
It’s just paper with a seal
proof of what we already know is real.
After all these years, choice vetoed,
what difference would it make?
Never mind, lets elope!
I love this line: “Please, what can be more powerful
than the poetry we write
in love’s floodlight”. Delaina, you are genius! Another great poem. I “see” many happy things when I read your poems.
What a fantastic complement Martice. Thank you so much I am thrilled that my poetry touches you in such a positive way.
Cheers!
Loved it..
Love you, xxoo
Thank you Mom for the complement but a big thank you for the love of my life. <3