August 29

Teasing The Moon

Photos, Poetry

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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

 

Teasing the Moon

Teasing the moon out
from daylight.

Awake but wanting
to be dreaming of you.

The sun warms my face but
the other side of the bed is cold.

Hot dreams leave my heart racing
and my body damp.

The memories of your touch
fade with a clarity I don’t want.

What I need is your flesh and heat
pulling me back in a tide of dreams.

Alone the bed is a sea
of loneliness I can’t wait to leave.

Yet the dregs of the dream
hold my heart at bay.

So I am teasing the moon
out of daylight.

 

©Delaina J Miller 2012

About the author

Creator of sounds. Poet on an energetic journey with words. Explorer of Frequencies.


 

Delaina J Miller

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