Notes About The Poem

an OPEN VERSE as below uses spaces&breaks/no grammatical symbols /relies on 'the one breath limitation'/this intuitive cadence permits the 'reader' (reciter)to respond in an interpretative-interplay unique to the ' happening moment'

CARPE diem

Yesterday
    has flown
buried
  in the past

Tomorrow another day

twenty-four
   hours away
for in Today
    always we stay

a place
in which
          we live
&breathe
            love
&live
      moment by

      moment
yet

so little done
 the pathos
     of things

a nearly man
on a lonely
        path
 where tempo
treads softly
 feelings
  sitting
on a volcano

one thing
leads
 to another

A watershed
to catch
 this miracle
&
seize the day

to
       unveil

a painting

       to complete
a lyric
   to write
 music
        so 
            sweet
its late
  create
&
   seize the day
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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Dietrich Avatar
June 15, 2024 at 10:10 PM
You seized the day very well, Brian. Also wanted you to know that Mark Toney wrote a tribute for you. It's very nice. In case you didn't know.
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