Off came the crown
Metallic clamors echoing throughout the barren hallways
Rolling back towards the throne and
Resting aside the chairs’ staunch wooden legs
Two red rubies fall free from their home, once proudly residing high atop his head,
Now settle on the cold stone floor
POETRY_Michael Weems
One pays to cry
A fee for falling apart
The capacity of emotions overflows, dripping into welcome ears and pockets
They retreat until next time knowing that someday the floodgates will burst wide open
POETRY_Michael Weems
Hello Readers of Carpe Diem Review,
Hope things are going well. It has been a while since we have last updated this journal – due to unforeseen circumstances. However, we will quickly be catching up with the new works of art – visual, literary and performing.
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Carpe Diem Review
A beautiful image of Brooklyn Bridge.
Since receiving her MFA from the now-defunct New College of California Poetics Program in 2004, Elizabeth Kate Switaj has published Magdalene & the Mermaids (Paper Kite Press), Shanghai (Gold Wake Press), and The Broken Sanctuary: Nature Poems (Ypolita Press). Her photographs have appeared in The Sylvan Echo, Schmap travel guides, and Kaleidowhirl as well as on the cover of Boxcar Poetry’s 2006 anthology. For more information visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net
A beautiful image of the New York City sunset.
Since receiving her MFA from the now-defunct New College of California Poetics Program in 2004, Elizabeth Kate Switaj has published Magdalene & the Mermaids (Paper Kite Press), Shanghai (Gold Wake Press), and The Broken Sanctuary: Nature Poems (Ypolita Press). Her photographs have appeared in The Sylvan Echo, Schmap travel guides, and Kaleidowhirl as well as on the cover of Boxcar Poetry’s 2006 anthology. For more information visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net
A great work of art showcasing cranes and building construction.
Since receiving her MFA from the now-defunct New College of California Poetics Program in 2004, Elizabeth Kate Switaj has published Magdalene & the Mermaids (Paper Kite Press), Shanghai (Gold Wake Press), and The Broken Sanctuary: Nature Poems (Ypolita Press). Her photographs have appeared in The Sylvan Echo, Schmap travel guides, and Kaleidowhirl as well as on the cover of Boxcar Poetry’s 2006 anthology. For more information visit www.elizabethkateswitaj.net
“It is highly stereotypical to claim that narcissistic people are aiming for fame. narcissism is similar to other love, like a man towards a woman, or like a parent towards his/her children… except that in this case, the subject and object are one.”
-An extraordinary saintlike human being
Do you agree or disagree?
The Narcissistic Robot – by: AC
Dear Readers,
Hope things are going well. Sorry for the late update. We are currently in the middle of making dramatic changes in CarpeDiemReview.com to be debuted in the next couple weeks. We would however like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support of CarpeDiemReview.com. I would like to share with you a wonderful work of visual art – the largest firework with a shell spanning 24 inches filmed a couple years ago in California. Enjoy the show and have a wonderful weekend!
My best ones are stifling,
The good days, the good works,
I am still not saved
From having to try again
In the future, not released
From doing anything at all,
What good is good? It buys
No trip, hides no responsibility,
With every thing done well,
Comes more questions, more demands,
More empty things
That everyone else
Does not trust themselves to fill.
BEN NARDOLILLI is a twenty three year old writer currently living in New York City. His work has appeared in Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, and Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, SoMa Literary Review, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Literary Fever, and Perspectives Magazine. In addition he was the poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU and maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.
I am with Homer, and Homer
Is next to clips of men
Falling down, failed stunts
That make me successfully laugh,
While they slide over rails
And roll down stairs
To Beethoven and Zeppelin,
I talk in the present
To friends, leaving
Messages that they will find,
Car wrecks on this highway
They will have to stop and read
And think about me now,
Infecting their memory with my voice,
Trying to communicate with them
I am remembering someone I loved,
And thinking a stranger’s face,
Revealed to many,
Resembles her, but the shade of skin
Just isn’t right, as I get
Tomorrow’s weather and let everyone know
That I love them but will not make it,
Because I am sick
And tired from traveling.
BEN NARDOLILLI is a twenty three year old writer currently living in New York City. His work has appeared in Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, and Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, SoMa Literary Review, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Literary Fever, and Perspectives Magazine. In addition he was the poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU and maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.