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 20
Today’s prompt was to write a family poem.
Usually when I write poetry about my family it is about one member at a time. But I really wanted to write about the wholeness of family and in a universal way that many can identify with. I hope you enjoy this one and can feel the love I have for my own family.
Family Quilt
A constant
refreshing
tender
loud roar
of dysfunction
that functions.
Death
rips out seams
a calico quilt
left in tatters.
Marriages,
children,
grandchildren
nieces and nephews
patch the holes
to keep bitter cold
from settling in our hearts.
Heartaches
and triumphs together;
a golden tread
to stitch, strengthen
and bind our lives
into a definable whole
we call family.
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Love this. Wonderfully expressive!
Thank you Jenny 🙂
Winner!
Thanks Ron!
Love it.. xxoo
Thank you Mom Nancy! 🙂
Really says it like it is, and I too like the “dysfunction, that functions part of the very well written and amazing poem. Thanks for sharing your talent!!
Thanks Mom! Our conversation yesterday inspired this one. I love the way we have continue to patch and grown as a family.
I love “dysfunction / that functions”. The perfect family!
Thank you Rosemary, I think dysfunction that functions is the perfect family too. 🙂