Carpe diem is a Latin expression that means "seize the day." Carpe diem poems have the theme of living for today.
~Abraham Lincoln: "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years."~

Seize The Day

Useless ash upon the hearth
That looks out on my soul.
The life, the light, the cheery warmth,
Expires and now lays cold.

That pleasant snap, that glowing flame,
Passed warmth to reverie.
And though my life may seem the same,
It’s not the same to me.

The flame is gone, the fuel is spent,
As embers fade away.
We sadly wonder where it went,
Our youth and blissful days.


(Mistycalpoet Aug/2010)

Nikunj
Live in th espur of the moment , seize the day ...or else nothing shall be left .......I like the verse " The flame is gone , the fuel is spent"

Fay Slimm
A question well worth the asking and this piece puts the position so well - - when the flame is gone what is left - - Love the advice in the title to "Seize the Day" - - Super write Misty.

Raj Arumugam
The poem falls on the reader's mind as gently as a leaf on a lake... Perhaps life is not youth or age, but the moment...the energy and depth of the living moment...