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Best Carpe Diem Poems

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I Must Carpe Diem
I used to live life full of dreams 
Planning, for many years to come.
Where I will be, when I will go,
A future that was filled...

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Categories: death, family, feelings, life,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member Carpe Diem
when sun is shining
I love to reach out my arms
and grab its brilliance. . . 
if I can do nothing more
at least I have seized...

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Categories: day, sun,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Life Is Fine
This life is fine
The world is mine
Though I can’t stop
The hands of time

The birds all sing
And flowers bloom
The sun still shines
And chases gloom

And I can...

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Categories: beautiful, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Musings of Love
“You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope."
Rumi


in the kingdom of love,
nothing is simple,
not even musings,
so...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: love,
Form: Carpe Diem



Each Day Takes Its Turn
Standing firm 
we live 
we give 
we take 
we learn 
we strive to make sure 
each day enlightens us 
and brightens us
even as light fades...

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Categories: black african american, day,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Everyday Is Beautiful
Everyday is beautiful, son,
and no that's not being optimistic.
You're here - you're alive - with one more day on your plate.
That's just being realistic.

Tuesdays are...

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Categories: appreciation, cheer up, children,
Form: Carpe Diem
S U B L I M E
SUBLIME

Sublime
I've been shedding snakeskin...
so blind
I've been destroying the noise
my worst enemy

Deconstructing my identity 
soaking shoulder deep
in oceans of humility 
feasting upon fruits of tranquility

breaking shackles...

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Categories: addiction, anger, change, conflict,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member The Zenith of My Prime
the zenith of my prime has come and gone
and here I sit and wait my setting sun
with dreams and wishes longing to come true
I won't...

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Categories: how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
Yellow Moutains
In my back, yellow mountains, glittering with a thousand bursts,
Of course, the sun has its incandescent magic
God is phosphorescence; his knowledge blinds all dogs and...

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Categories: 9th grade, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Carpe Diem
Seize the Day
Live each day as if it were your last
I tell you  dear friend time is running  so fast
All of us would one day...

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© John Boak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: life, love, people, time,
Form: Carpe Diem
Elicit Illicit Lucid Dreams -Contains Nudity-
~JSLambert does not (currently:) use, or encourage hallucinogenic drug use.

    Telepathic psilocybin prescription erasing elastic depression. Competition 
wanes, just when nocturnal emission...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Carpe Diem
Without a Doubt
It ain’t the way the wind blows
or what’s left when it’s gone
and it ain't in the bank roll
money never tastes that strong
and it’s not in...

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Categories: allegory,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member One Minute At a Time

Is all we have, just hours or years, a lie we believe.
We have no clarity as to what God will do.

So grab this minute given...

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Categories: christian, courage, day, god,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Begin Again

hopeful plans unrolled

     dawn awaits ~

          the new you debut




July 3, 2019
Magicicada13...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: courage, hope, morning,
Form: Carpe Diem

Book: Shattered Sighs