Dance Carpe Diem Poems

The grandmother speaks to her granddaughter:
When I was a girl the best advice from a loving parent concerning,
A  suitable mate for their daughter,
Was 'find...

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grab today and dance with her
laugh with her, play with her
Let today know you love her
You appreciate her, and you respect her
tomorrow may not arrive
you...

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My time to heal 
my time to grow 
I am abundant 
this I know
  
I am a mighty force  
I have cried 
Yet...

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Villanelle the Foal

A gripping dance 
(12 men lift a rigid horse onto a pick-up truck).
I drive gate-wide

in the Volvo 
(Mummy, what are they doing with...

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The sound of youth to me,
Is akin to a babbling brook, 
Shaded by the mature trees, 
Until it is ready to emerge,
Bubbling with enthusiasm,
For all...

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Once, we had unlimited fun
Until life’s duties had us on a run 
Memories consumed us old, 
yet, for new experiences we jump
Please, do not cry,...

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Another summer
Summer is over the night arrives hastily 
it was a delicious season spent indoors
his cancer didn´t like to sun.
To sit there and dream of...

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garnish your gusto
dance your joy
live for this second
expend enthusiasm
this moment belongs to you
live to the maximum
shout your truth...

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    Hug the sun as if it were your progeny.
    Be filled with joy that you...

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Do you ever just dance to the rythm of your heart,
Or whisper messages to loved ones through the wind when apart.
Do you ever stop to...

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Heretic condemned to burn at stake
reprieve eleventh hour granted clemency
commuted death penalty
criminal sentenced solitary isolation
rat infested dungeon ultimate punishment
doled out after protracted proceedings
courtesy amazing graceful...

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Every moment gone faster than the one before
a second you could have written a sentence in your play,
called a friend, and uplifted them.
Petted a puppy,...

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When every day is a redo of yesterday
When every hour is the same as the hour before
And the day before and the days of the...

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Throw enthusiasm into your next twenty-four hours.
Find something new to master, to learn, to study, to play with, to enjoy.

Pretend this is your last twenty-four...

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Another Sunday morning
Crouched in the beam of headlights
Steam coming off coffee and breath
Fumbling to pin race bib to pants

A romance
Of sorts; this dance I’m addicted...

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