Tribute Carpe Diem Poems

We'd awakened to soon reaching. 
for respite keeping PTSD at bay 
while anxiety attacks bicker with 
my Narcolespy my focus remains.
 
steadfast on Traumatic Brain...

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Moment

Moment
So little
So tiny
Passes by quickly
Like a busy bee on its duty
Like a wind hurring for the north
Passes by quickly
Like a fly for its substience
Like a...

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Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

after William Dunbar

Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest...

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Far from the surging crowd,the aesthetic mass ever loved
For,some fascinated to drilling mud,more satiated with coconut ground
Most elated admiring flowering buds,all hailed for herbs, spices,Salmon...

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This man cannot grasp 
His task at hand.
With fervor he tries
Diligently.
Trying, working, his
Sweat soaks his brow.
It is getting dark.
What will he do?
He tries to finish
But,...

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this poem is my take on weary blues by langston hughes 
Langston hughes truly was a great poet and one of the best ever!

Bombilating a...

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CARPE DIEM
 (In memory of Robin Williams—“Seize the Day”©Dead Poets Society)

as I write and as you read
time churls and runs its
furious speed

never be a victim...

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I beg your forgiveness for I am not long for this world. Happenstance has led me down this path so crooked and forlorn. Misery has...

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The big bang, 

one week ago today, 

an ounce of energy degrades-

young and righteous, 

a story evades-

rebounds like the waves, 

a story evades, 

surges and...

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My friend, you will be in my heart forever/
you proved to be a great man and this is not simple in this blue rounded ship...

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There's no decision 
to become a Bohemian;
You either do
or you don't.

You find yourself there
absent marriage and career
It's no choice,
You either will
or you won't.

It requires not...

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