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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: seize the day, life, love, people, time,
Form: Carpe Diem



Premium Member Seize the Day
I looked after an old lady and she always used to say
‘Three things never come back…
The spoken word, the sped arrow, and the neglected opportunity’
I...

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Categories: seize the day, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Seize the Day
The autumn sun has risen
but yet to attain high noon-
make hay, my roses fair.
I would not be happy to see you
decaying with the hasting day.
I...

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Categories: seize the day, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Seize the Day
Seize the day 


This Diwali night is the Festival of Lights,
A spark lend to dull and monotonous lives,

Living without friends is as if in a...

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Categories: seize the day, blessing, feelings, joy,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Play On Words
Write here, right now. Write now, right here!
Capture the moment while it's near 
and seize the day. You now know how: 
write now, right here;...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seize the day, word play, words,
Form: Quatrain



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: seize the day, death, family, feelings, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
I Just Have My Pen To Fuel
"Where do we poets go?”
I wish I could know
and trace a path of glory
which I admire in awe.
*****
The words I do follow
into them resides my...

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Categories: seize the day, deep, devotion, emotions, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With My Dying Breath
* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun. 

A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: seize the day, anxiety, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Art Is Play
Seize the day,
Art is play.
Don’t even think,
Just add some pink
Swirl it around
Take out boring brown
 
Add the prettiest blue you do
A splash of orange in...

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Categories: seize the day, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Clutching This Instance
If ever I had two hours with you… or three,
the vacancy of this night and lulled
shores would be refilled with the gushing
of frosted air on...

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Categories: seize the day, absence, memory, time,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member 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...

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Categories: seize the day, inspirational, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Academic Proverbs
A passage, I read,
in the book of Academic Proverbs,
"Seize the day
and reach for the stars".
Along with many others like
"Follow your dreams,
don't sell yourself short,
and raise...

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Categories: seize the day, allegory, faith, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
War With Demons
The harsh winds bite at my very soul
Alone I sit, waiting for the fight to commence
Heart racing, sweat pours despite the cold

Caution…not today
The warrior reaps...

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Categories: seize the day, hurt, moving on,
Form: Carpe Diem
A Sonnet To the Iphone
I shoot up above the silent, spellbound crowd,
Gaping down at their bright hands with glassy eyes,
Then I pierce the satin clouds that dress the skies,
And...

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Categories: seize the day, addiction, loneliness, lonely, philosophy,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member The Dandelions Beg To Differ
Waiting for the world to make sense again
I jump back and forth every now and then
Lush grass and blue sky, but I don’t know
(The world’s...

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Categories: seize the day, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, encouraging,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs