Time Carpe Diem Poems | Examples

These Time Carpe Diem poems are examples of Carpe Diem poems about Time. These are the best examples of Carpe Diem Time poems written by international poets.


Premium MemberCherish & Love [a Carpe Diem]

Cherish & Love
Swift breezes wisping by the exotic and wildflowers are fading, the leaves changing hue share your kind warmth with another soul while the time is opportune God's graced love for sharing another of the reasons he created people loving just like you and I too.


Premium Membersenter sity shanty

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                               brrr'r
                     'twere      trudge 
                               thuh
                           this time

                    duck'n umbrellaz

                   transit's humorous
                            splash'n

                               ahhh 
                        wuz        wade'n
                              worth
                                 for
 
                              write'n

                                   ,)

Premium MemberRespond To Your Present Moment

      Carpe diem ! Enjoy your present moment.
      Stay dynamic to feel life in every limb
      Listen to the sweet tweets of birds at dawn.
      Sense the beauty and fragrance of blossoms.

     Soothing  breeze is blowing ! Seize the day.
     Look at shivering  of shy leaves on touch of wind.
     Reminiscing thrill of your first soft kiss.
     Romance in love to ripple in your heart.

    Honour your today, as gift of your life
    Tomorrow you may think on tomorrow.
    What will , will be : Future not to see.
    Life is short ! Every moment to utilise.

    Not to lose a day, time is precious,
    flowing for ever , not to rewind.
    Life does not run as continuous function 
    but a collection of discrete chapters.

Premium MemberTo Seize the Day

To seize the day he sees the day
As the elusive moment that it is
Wandering aimlessly from the herd
Beguiled by a drifting scent of more
Muscling his way into the lead
Leaving a mindless wake behind
Believing lost moments will follow
The shadow of his passing presence
Unaware that he is the moment
And time life’s metronomic warning

Premium MemberUnheard Agony of a Soul

Accepting death not for the first time 
It has been for several decades
The soul never spends a life fully
Every time it ends cynically

Once it happened due to starvation
The sinless soul obeyed destiny
Became a prey for fusion power
When it took shelter in a soldier

The six enemies trigger the mind
The counter factors of mental peace
Unheard slaughter by unseen virus
Can man flee from nature's aggression?

Every time a new impediment
Race, region, economy, ego
Vicious and sharp clutches of man-made
Is there an end for this agony?

Place: 3 rd


Premium MemberLet Live Our Happy Days


“Live each one with joy-
      Life's gift, a brand new day.”
                                     __by Poet

There comes a time in life when every day
becomes a prize as each rolls by.
We know the waiting sunset is in view; 
with dark, cold night around the bend.

Embrace each day as if it were the best.
Help shape it, not to be the last.
Try filling it with heartfelt forms of love-
caressing blessings as they come.

Recall those years of giving, we still share- 
be large or small, that makes them smile,
along with love and kindness, they give too
that paves the purpose of our paths.

Safeguard those snapshots in fond memories
with what still sparkles every day,
then tuck away all things that cause deep pain.
Let's live our joy in happy days.

Premium MemberBeing inside the hour glass

Tomorrow is a rumor, far off, distant.
Yesterday is a dream you'd rather forget.
Be here, right now, with nothing to be missed.
The clock ticks; it's tocks won't wait, so inhabit it.
Be there inside the neck of the hourglass,
to feel the sand grains slide through your fingers.
Not as a bystander, watching time fade away,
but as a soul willing to stand in the rain,
feeling each unrepeatable plink gather
into rivulets of contemplation,
streaming to glisten as tears down your face.

Premium MemberI Only Have this Moment

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~ Anne Dillard

What shall I do with this moment - 
only a moment - not even a day to seize. 
I don't have anyone's expectations
or anything that's happened before,
whether I wish it hadn't happened,
or I wish desperately to cling to it.  

I don't have anything that will be,
whether something I dread or something wonderful,
just this place and time, this body, this mind. 
I only have this precious moment,
and this moment is all I need.  
What shall I do with this moment?

Premium MemberSTEPPING THROUGH TOMORROW’S THIN SKIN

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The alarm screams, but I let it fade,  
pressing palms to warm sleep-swollen cheeks.  
Outside, a crow cracks the dawn in two~  
I want to taste its blackberry beak.  

Coffee steam writes promises on air,  
each sip erasing yesterday’s debt.  
My socks mispaired; the universe winks.  
The freeway hum stitches the sunset.  

Dandelions breach the concrete, 
their gold teeth gnawing at parking lots.  
I pick up a pebble, smooth as time,  
letting it weigh down my what-ifs and nots.  

The moon arrives early, drunk on light,  
slurring silver across my doorstep.  
I step right through tomorrow’s thin skin.

Premium Memberat thuh butt crack uv winter

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                                         it did not wait
                                                   no
                                         it did not come
                                                 'fore

                                          right on time
                                              like thuh
                                                dawn

Premium MemberBirthday Wisdom

The older we get, the more time is a wild river 
with nothing standing in its way ~ 

One solution for slowing time down is to
live it up during your whole birthday month ~

At our age, it's not wise to cram too much celebrating 
in just one day ~ we need to pace ourselves



AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025

Premium MemberMantra for the living

time is a lane on the freeway
keep your eye on the destination
do not get distracted from your ambition
the only frivolities worthwhile are relationships
and even then ~ choose wisely



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium MemberSummon your inner goddess

choose your thoughts well
they are the brick and mortar of your reality
making you the architect of your life



AP: 3rd place 2025

Submitted on May 27, 2025 for contest YOUR CHOICE P sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  Honorable Mention

Premium Memberthe world spins faster and faster

enjoy every minute ~


AP: 1st place 2025

Premium MemberCarpe Diem With Heart

My days before were fulfilled daily,
No less and no more, well-balanced,
Blessed chapters and verses were faithful,
Cardinally, orderly--precedes and succeeds,

Until carpe diem claimed Mom's heart,
A reasonable necessity,
Her pain and suffering was addressed,
Age was hers and time was ours,

My son's carpe diem came,
Unexpected, caught off-balanced,
Did my best with my guard down,
I received my carpe diem long after,

Carpe diem was mine,
Yet I was no longer myself,
Realized a changed presence in me,
My heart was much heavier than before.

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