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
Pause
Before we write another law
before we divide another right from wrong.
A meadow of heather
in shades of royal purple
is rarely plucked from the earth
to make a vase taller.
But would you burn the field
only because it holds
a different worth than a daffodil?
The brain looks as a dehydrated grape
left out in the sun until it became
a raisin that bled out all its color
but still we call it a beautiful mind.
Before we hand out rights to discriminate
before we fall upon our swords hate.
Shared for World Poetry Day
WOW..wonderful
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