PAD Day 10 – How Lovely – Delaina J. Miller

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

How Lovely

Peale's Venus Rising from the Sea: A Deception (See it live and unaltered at the Nelson-Atkins Museum) — Peale’s Venus Rising from the Sea: A Deception
(See it live and unaltered at the Nelson-Atkins Museum)

The light that draws the moth to its flame.
Like Peale’s Venus Rising from the Sea:
A Deception. Why are we drawn to it?
The mystery that hides behind the drape.
The anticipation of the vulnerable
being revealed. The recognized
connection of sacrifice and desire.
Between the backdrop and the stage curtain
we understand the unseen as our own grace.

Inspired after hearing Liz Rideal speak
at the Nelson-Atkins Museum.