Carpe Diem – Distilled Shakespeare

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O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! your true-love’s coming
That can sing both high and low;
Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
Journeys end in lovers’ meeting—
Every wise man’s son doth know.

What is love? ’tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What’s to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty,—
Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-twenty,
Youth’s a stuff will not endure.

To condense Will Shakespeare’s wonderful poem above to a haiku is not easy.


capture kisses
‘fore the years will take the joy
of disappearing youth

Girls amid plants by Raphael Kirchner

Girls amid plants by Raphael Kirchner


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January 5, 2014

12 responses to “Carpe Diem – Distilled Shakespeare”

  5. Great distillation, Bjorn! I like the picture you posted with it, as well. Her eyes have a coquettish look to them, for me anyway, and it goes well with the haiku.

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