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
Veils
Just try!
Just try to see me.
Through the veils
I am sultry.
Veiled
I am mysterious.
Shrouded in scarlet
I am lover.
Hooded in lace
I am bride.
Just try!
Just try to see me.
My eyes cloaked
within shadows.
Only one eye
revealed to you.
My secrets concealed
behind sealed lips.
Even my body
obscured from your gaze.
Oh won’t you please just try!
Just try to see me.
Alive with desires
my aspirations visible through lace.
Shy without words
my silence so loud but you can hear.
Tender with love
I’m open for your touch.
Keen with thoughts
revealing my intensity.
Please just try!
Just try to see me.
Behind the veil’s
defense.
Under the veil’s
labels.
Without the veil’s
screen.
Beneath the veil’s
layers.
Just try!
Just try to see me,
in your mirror.
©Delaina J Miller 2012
Art work courtesy of Elspeth Murdoch
Thank you for the inspiration Elspeth
Wow! seeing a different side of you talent! Very Nice!
Ha! Nice pun. Thank you Mom.