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This Day- This Moment

Life offers A few choice moments… Plush in promise Open to opportunity Dense with destiny Moments in time When... everything you have everything you are weigh heavily in the balance replete with risks… Should you speak… or keep silent? Should you reach out… or withdraw? Should you embrace… or walk away? Should you write… or wait for a message? The seconds slip away you hold your breath knowing this moment this very ONE may change your life Forever... Almost gone it’s almost gone the chance to make happiness yours to reveal all that you hide… the lasting love the pent up passion the moment is ripe to make a change to make amends to take a stand to take a bow to feel to fly to love to.... LIVE! This day this moment here now….. don’t let it pass by this moment could change every other moment of the rest of your life Carpe Diem Seize the Day Ah... but listen... Here what I say! Seize the moment, This very one... AND ALL THE OTHER DAYS... WILL BE WON! October 20, 2014 For Reginna's Carpe Diem Contest

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Mama Bear

Date: 11/14/2014 7:36:00 PM

Eileen we miss you. Start your wonderful writing again. Let no one take this gift from you. You had your hiatus and not get back to writing. Hugs and Blessings Edith

Eileen Manassian
Date: 11/14/2014 10:28:00 PM

Oh, Mama Bear! What a lovely post. You bring me SO much joy. Thank you for remembering me. Hopefully soon I can come back. I did need a time away for some contemplation and introspection. It has been good for me. We will see how things go. Nice warm hugs to you all the way from Beirut.

Sara Kendrick

Date: 11/9/2014 4:58:00 AM

Way to go with this great win..Congrats..Sara

Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty

Date: 11/7/2014 8:30:00 AM

Jade, your Carpe Diem has been wisely explored by you as a message to all of us. Love:::: rajat

Dr.Ram Mehta

Date: 11/6/2014 4:52:00 AM

Amaxing write, congrats on the win

Joyce Johnson

Date: 11/5/2014 10:01:00 PM

A great take on the Seize the Day contest. congratulations on your win. Love, Joyce

Jan Allison

Date: 11/5/2014 4:59:00 AM

I agree Eileen grab the moment - we rarely get a second chance - many congrats on your win:-) hugs jan xx

Maurice Yvonne

Date: 11/5/2014 3:26:00 AM

Congratulations on your win. You seized the day.

Charmaine Chircop

Date: 11/3/2014 5:15:00 AM

Miss your poetry and you dear sister

Maurice Yvonne

Date: 10/29/2014 2:38:00 PM

There is no moment like right now. Great write for Gina's challenge.

Casarah Nance

Date: 10/29/2014 6:38:00 AM

Seize the Moment, That is wise to live by :) Hope you are enjoying all the moments you are granted, hugs and smiles :)

Poet Tacito

Date: 10/24/2014 9:36:00 AM

This is precisely the declaration I make before I dive into a plate of Stuffed Shells & buttered garlic bread. True story. ;) Can't let it pass us...

Paul Callus

Date: 10/23/2014 4:03:00 PM

.....also enjoyed the calm and pensive feeling that you transmit in this poem....hugs // paul

Paul Callus
Date: 11/5/2014 12:02:00 PM

...back again with merited congratulations, Eileen.....paul

Paul Callus

Date: 10/23/2014 4:01:00 PM

Hi Eileen..I have just been reading the poem "Virgin Snow" by our friend Timothy Hicks, where he quotes Piet Hein: "there's a lifetime in a second". And this poem of yours, referring to moments in time, goes hand in hand with it. That one second...that single moment in time, can effect our whole life. So I agree with you: seize the moment...and all else can be won! Beautiful! ...

Cherl Dunn

Date: 10/21/2014 9:03:00 PM

This is such a positive work seize the world by the hands and lead us down the road of promise for the future my dear friend, everyone should follow your led on this one, cheri

Mama Bear

Date: 10/21/2014 12:52:00 PM

Excellent message!! If we do not seize the moment we will forever regret it. Good luck in the contest. Hugs Edith

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 4:13:00 PM

Thanks so much for your lovely visit, Mama Bear. I'm touched when you decide to pass by. Hugs! :)

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 10/21/2014 9:23:00 AM

wonderful uplifting message YOU can have some control over your own destiny, every minute suggests a new path. ( watch out for the ... ) Light & Love

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 11:03:00 AM

Debbie dearest...thank you for your lovely visit. I do like the ... Hugs! ;) I'm hopeless, I know.

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 10/21/2014 9:02:00 AM

Good evening Eileen.

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 11:04:00 AM

Hello, Richard. Hope all is well, my dear.

Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty

Date: 10/21/2014 8:45:00 AM

Seize the moment rather than Seize the day. Good choice. Love.))))rajat

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 11:07:00 AM

Glad you liked this piece, Rajat. Welcome to my work. :)

Demetrios Trifiatis

Date: 10/21/2014 7:06:00 AM

Deeply philosophical yet practical in application! An advise that one should keep in his heart and remember it with each heartbeat! Excellent poem! A seven from me without hesitation, dear Eileen! Good luck with the contest! To add something along your line of thought, I say this: Life is a street that at each moment there is a corner inviting us to make a choice to turn left or right or to continue our way, pending our choice our life may alter its course! Congratulations!

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 4:15:00 PM

What an honor to receive a seven from you, my dear poet. You know how I value your thoughts on my work. Your praise is a crown. Your added lines, beautiful. Blessings to you.

Justin Bordner

Date: 10/21/2014 2:40:00 AM

I admire the alliteration you use deftly to emphasize the pivotal moments Eileen. Your form style also makes the message incisive on my mind. You close the poem with eloquent force, reminding that courage has a consequence that can make your future victorious, in this moment and all that ensue. "Choice moments...Dense with destiny..." powerful poetry. J.A.B.

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 4:17:00 PM

Alliteration...your strong point, Justin. You are rubbing off on me...I'm glad you approve of my poem. Justin...moments come along once in a lifetime...I know this. The moments you visit me...are precious. Your visits...joyful to my heart.

Timothy Hicks

Date: 10/20/2014 11:22:00 PM

Wonderful poem. Wonderful state of mind. I feel like this poem itself is a moment - and it's slipping away as I'm reading it. AND ALL OTHER DAYS WILL BE WON... so if you don't seize the moment then the days are lost? Love how this makes me read between the lines.

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 4:23:00 PM

The moment can come by with another read! ;) Ahhhhh...gotcha, didn't I? Lovely post. Very sweet. Thanks!!!

Gary Bateman

Date: 10/20/2014 10:07:00 PM

Eileen, I forgot . . . Best of Luck in the Contest!! Cheers, Gary

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 4:26:00 PM

Thanks, Gary. You are very kind!

Gary Bateman

Date: 10/20/2014 10:05:00 PM

Eileen, A quite wonderful write here. Loved this one very much!! Carpe Diem indeed. A "7" for you and a FAV for me. I really liked too the flow of your imagery. Very Artfully Done!! Cheers and Spill Ink!! Gary

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 4:27:00 PM

Gary. I'm so please that you would rate this poem so highly. It is very kind of you. I'm touched.

Ilene Bauer

Date: 10/20/2014 5:54:00 PM

great advice, not always easy to follow! wonderful poem, eileen...

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 4:28:00 PM

Yes....my dear Ilene. I'm good a giving advice, but never good with follow through. ;) Thanks for visiting.

Tim Smith

Date: 10/20/2014 4:48:00 PM

Seize the moment,,,I like that...I do know the feeling of do I write her or wait but if I wait will it be too late...wonderful...hugs Tim

Eileen Manassian
Date: 10/21/2014 4:31:00 PM

Follow your heart, Tim. Follow your heart. Thanks for the lovely post on my poem. It is very good to have you here.