I'm a Growing Woman

PAD Challenge Day 29: Take the phrase "Until (blank)," replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem. Until Your Last Breath I'm glad I arrived in Missouri  in time to talk to you. Look into light brown eyes  that look like mine just to tell you I love you one last time.  I'm more happier that I could show you. Feed you one of your favorite meals  like you use to feed me when I was a baby. Watch the Heat beat the Cavaliers  though we're both Lakers fans. I'm glad you wanted to play Motown  just for you to sing "My Girl" to me because you'll never get the chance to give my  hand in marriage to the love of my life. You were my favorite girl dad.  My male twin and bestfriend. I'm glad you were the first man to  ever love me the way you did. I'm glad I made you a happy, proud Father. I'm content that I fulfilled your living  wishes before your death wishes too. I'm glad I locked our promises

PAD Challenge Day 28: Write a death poem. Death in Tolls Slowly love is dying,  not by the four letters  of its alphabets but by  the lack of definition and sense. People are living in perilous  rotations of survival mode where  love is no longer a desideratum. Family trees are splitting after  strong roots dies.  Millions of hearts are vacant. Hatred and jealousy are relocating to a new chamber of the heart  everyday without oxygen to assist  and advance the blood flood. Humanity is facing a flat line too  while the vitals of vile and evil run  extra high and parallel rapidly. Since we can't read minds,  please take some time, read the commentary as you stroll the threads of your so called socials. Listen quietly to what is being said  when said in your presence. Don't forget all bodies can  speak too without words. Can't you see? Unity in community is dying. Respect is dying. Patience is dying. It's Them vs. Us.   Your kin and maybe another friend vs. You. Tenderness

PAD Challenge Day 27:  Write a remix poem. Not All Heroes Wear Capes (This is the Remix:  Day 17) I'm a wonder  woman too. A  true black  steel magnolia. In love with  my black beauty  voluptuous curves, knowledge and elegance. I, too,  marched in  memory of millions  and for generations to come. I,too,  faced black barriers and  broke generational curses. I, too,  broke glass ceilings,  kicked down doors for  another black girl to be fly at sharing her magic.  💜D'ElegantOne 

PAD Challenge Day 26: Write a persona poem. Spring Equinox  After I succeed the coldest winters, I change up everything.                               Like BOOM! Have things rise up like the Prince of Peace. Let my children born under the stars of Aries,  Taurus, and Gemini parade around the sun again. I even like to switch up my temps on you. One minute I'm calm, collective and cool  as a bell or hot like a Carolina Reaper. I bring all the bees and butteflies to the yard. I may even let you fly a kite under my sheet of clouds and mild winds. I always increase your daytime  for you to stay under the sun longer with me. I pay for your trees' new clothes and scents like honeysuckle and cherry blossom. I send Bluejays and hummingbirds  to sit beside your windows to to sing you morning hymns. If April cries, it's always  rivers until all of May's flowers                                Like BOOM! Bloom and more bloom overnight. Letting my pollen count  cancel some of you ou

PAD Challenge Day 25: Write a homonym poem. The Sole of My Soul Here I am depending on Every living cell of me to  keep the sole of my soul alive You better love me genuinely now Touch me gracefully beyond your hands Before our seconds becomes minutes  and hours become days for the last time Don't you know, I'm like the day and time  in a year anyway Coming and going Never coming back again Once in a lifetime  until my spirit flies me away I disappear Leaving my deep bronze color  for a darker hue Trading my smooth curves  and tough skin for a boney blueprint  different from the shell I was born in Listen  Adore my songs, fiction, prose and poems Record my motions and emotions  because once I'm gone I'm gone I'll only cross your mind   probably a hundred to a thousand times No longer available to share a piece of mine  I'll feel no pain cry no tears or laugh with you Plant a shoulder or hold up an ear to you For you to lay down your burdens  and lock in your se

PAD Challenge Day 24 : Write a maximum. Maxima My life has been like calculus  alot of Ys after a few Xs Several differentials that  built me better for every rising slope  Despite the limits and curves  I didn't apply for or cosine to I integrated artificial powerful rules  No matter how much of a multivariate I am Though sometimes I'm hard to understand  My spirit is just a derivative of the trinity 💜D'ElegantOne