This Year

This year I'll relish every day,
Enjoy each hour as it comes by.
No part unused will get away,
No minutes worth will I deny.
How many left before I die?

I've spent my many months and years,
So carelessly without a thought.
Or wasted them with baseless fears,
Knowing recapture can't be bought,
Forgetting the lessons I've been taught.

This is the year of precious time
And filling every empty space, 
The year I write the perfect rhyme
Contrived with such exotic grace,
I'll have my own exalted place.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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April 4, 2015 at 7:23 PM
Joyce, Dropped by to say hi and congratulate you on having your poem selected by Soup's Administration. This is a wonderful poem to have featured on the homepage. ~Always & Forever~ LINDA
Makama Avatar
April 4, 2015 at 7:04 AM
Absolutely wonderful! Its a blessed and wonderful weekend for me, chilling out with poetic lines so fine and touching
Dietrich Avatar
February 20, 2015 at 11:00 PM
Wonderful to finally see this one, Joyce. BIG congrats on your win.
A  Avatar
February 18, 2015 at 10:28 PM
Joyce, CONGRATS on your win ~ SKAT ~
Lawless Avatar
February 17, 2015 at 3:44 PM
Congrats Joyce on the win and on for filling - as Kipling wrote: ..."the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds full of distance run".
Allison Avatar
February 17, 2015 at 6:33 AM
I have you write brilliant poems Joyce and this is a winner - congrats:-) Hugs Jan xx
Roberts Avatar
February 16, 2015 at 8:56 PM
beautifully penned Joyce, congrats on your winning entry
Bauer Avatar
January 4, 2015 at 3:59 PM
wonderful! i wish you a very happy new year, joyce, filled with many poems of perfect rhyme!
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