Try to Live for the Moment
Why relive the past?
Why worry about the future?
Each new day has its own promise
Why get bogged down in what can’t be changed?
I just try to live for the moment.
No time for the future
No time for the past
Just live for the moment
Like today was your last
Only for a moment
Well I always be just here
Get here in a while
it's a discernment
Of a caring pleading soul
That I've been bought with the Christ
I have been made up
Covered and it's just
As I am I'm only here for more Always
...for a moment
At the end of the moment
There's time yet instilled in that moment
I am anointed in my Father's mind
Only for a moment
Well I always be just here
Get here in a while
8/13/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr
if just for today
let go of your worries
and set them free to the winds
if just for today
open your heart
to what the future promises
if just for today
let love bring you warmth
and cast rainbows over your horizons
if just for today
let me tell you how much i love you
and dispel all complications
if just for today
let's you and i live for the moment
and appreciate the sweet taste of freedom
AP: Honorable Mention 2023
For the moment, we pause needless striving
That dear friends, includes habit of thinking
Shedding fears and guilt needing atonement
Rekindling instead, innate bliss quotient
Shifting into joy stream, celebrating
Life is fleeting, yet struggle unending
Oh hermit, live fully, time’s-a-wasting
Discard the ego urge for attainment
For the moment
Pause to smell the roses, soul uplifting
Smile at the stranger, our hearts expanding
Shift into staid stillness, in contentment
Bliss within renews, without abatement
Is-ness of being-ness scintillating
For the moment
22-February-2021
once in a lifetime
this moment
precious as it was
would never pass again
how i longed
for it to linger
to capture its essence
immortalize it
so i wrote this poem
to give it life
and set it free
on wings of a butterfly
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~IN THE GARDEN OF MY FANTASY~ 2023
AP: 2nd place 2021
Submitted on October 8, 2020 for contest ...AND SO I WROTE A POEM sponsored by JOHN LAWLESS - RANKED 3RD
Dear unanswerable creator.
Oh, merciful and carelessly brutal lord.
We are alive for a moment.
We have our pleasures and despairs.
We seem but episodes in a series.
A question whispered, like gentle breathing:
Do our frolics play on in astral syndication
or are we recycled into cosmic dust?
Nature filled with flowing imagination makes it's entry _stage right
Slow-motion grandeur, with elongated trails of gold, red, blush pink,
and fiery yellow;
Sprinkled about, majestic forms _twisting upwards in billowing white
regal splendor.
For the moment, time stands still.
For the moment, my system slows to a tranquil pant.
For the moment, I share, and become in perfect silence _a partner in nature’s imagination.
For the moment I watch, reluctantly, the curtain descend on this day.
For the moment.
Turn from breathless auto able yet is over,
What time of day do one seek the blame,
Good guy kind guy worthy of privileges to meet the parents,
Late nights time of live yet replaying scenario,
Should I stay or should I go,
Education bound but I’m in love with the night ten years later,
Wonder if love fall for love,
Good guy kind guy worthy of privileges to meet the parents,
Time frame change and ten year later what was held of beauty,
Is a distance friend,
Late night time frame yet borrow time who left date is it another,
Ten years or a dear friend,
Good guy kind guy worthy of privileges to meet the parents.
Where are you?
Where did you go?
How can I make you return?
Are you with someone new?
Of me does she know?
Or how for you I yearn?
What should I do?
What is left to grow?
Why is it no longer my turn?
Has she asked who?
Does she speak slow?
Can she not learn?
Because we are stuck like glue
We share one shadow
And your love will someday return.
Written and posted on December 12th, 2016.
By: Michelle Corbin
PAST. A nice place to take tarriance but definitely not a good one to live in.
PRESENT. Time to lie for the moment, to take time to giggle and to enjoy today for what it is.
FUTURE. Something we’ve wished for a magical fast forward button because we can’t wait to get there.
Let the first one, teach us.
Let the latter impel us.
And just live for the moment.
Take in the beauty of the limitless sky.
Living in the shadows but you still hold my heart
No light at all for me since the day we did part
Pleading for a sunray to feel again with love
Cursed into blackness no more illumination from above
Torn from the balance of equal light and dark
Wanting to burn it all just so I could see the spark
Knowing that forever I exist in this gloomy place
Waiting forever until I see the light shine upon your face
Whispering to the dusk hoping to waken its eyes
Praying for the moment when we will share another sunrise
Intense gray mass of rolling clouds.
The sun shines behind its brilliant rays
which ring the clouds in certain majesty.
For the moment I am complete,
had something delicious to eat,
have comfortable shoes on my feet.
For the moment I awake to blue skies,
and a beautiful canopy of lovely mountain
ranges, ranging to the North, South, East, West.
As I take my beloved dog Dizzy for a walk I notice
the Century plants which will out last my brief
stay here on this version of Earth.
Located in this desert's landscape are cacti of
many kinds, Saguaros so big, Rabbit Ears, Stringy Cholla...
they can seemingly jump onto your skin if you draw too near.
For the moment I am glad to be alive and tell my Lord and
how much I appreciate it being so.
After a walk so grand I get my swim suit on and enjoy
a swim in the outdoor pool at the place where I live, so refreshing.
In faith I imagine I am in the renewal of life.
As the water laps gently around me, I say another prayer for my
neighbors, friends and family.
For the moment I will remain pure of mind, body and soul.
Live for the moment, be in the present
Life is filled with ups and downs obviously
It is never a straight road as everyone wish
It is a bumpy ride with fast twists and turns
Hence instead of complaining and carping
Merrily live for the moment, be in the present.
Never ever contemplate on the future rosy
For one knows not what lies ahead in store
Nor needlessly brood over the bygone past
And repent for the actions compelled or not
Hence do not fritter away the precious now
Merrily live for the moment, be in the present.
Forgive and forget the denigrations suffered
Never ruminate on the wounds long-healed
For they may return and make you resentful
And spoil your mirth which sometimes visits
Hence make the most of the slippery delight
Merrily live for the moment, be in the present.
Thus savour each moment of life unruffled
That makes it a worthy living and profound
Least stirred about by several undercurrents
Those toss the boat vigorously but in vain
For one may get wet but never gets drowned
Merrily live for the moment, be in the present.
For the moment can we just accept what is, For the moment can we just forgive and forget
Being in the moment is where it begins, Dwelling on the past is where your story could end
Lets hold on to each other and embrace the warmth between us
Kissing every inch of you, Careesing the curves from my body
Enjoying the intimacy and escaping into ecstasy
For the moment, Look into my eyes and hold me tight
For the moment, enjoying each others company feels just right
Being in the moment is where it begins, Dwelling on the past is where your story could end
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