John Anderson Poet Carpe Diem

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14 Feb 2026
For 2026-02-12 Write A Beautiful Carpe Diem Poem Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Constance La France

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Being inside the hour glass

Tomorrow is a rumor, far off, distant.
Yesterday is a dream you'd rather forget.
Be here, right now, with nothing to be missed.
The clock ticks; it's tocks won't wait, so inhabit it.
Be there inside the neck of the hourglass,
to feel the sand grains slide through your fingers.
Not as a bystander, watching time fade away,
but as a soul willing to stand in the rain,
feeling each unrepeatable plink gather
into rivulets of contemplation,
streaming to glisten as tears down your face.

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