Monthly Archives: January 2013

Life in Time

Time, is it something we are given or something we keep?

We can not hold it,

We can not prolong it no matter how hard we try.

So many have tried and failed.

Kings in the belief they were gods,

Destined to live forever,

Believing they were divinely chosen,

But to no avail life slipped away from them.

The sands of time drizzled from between their gold adorned fingers,

Leaving their hearts empty and their hands cold,

This is as it always has been and always will be.

Our science can only sustain the life left in us,

When we are called to pass no method of man can save us.

Should we not then cherish the hours we spend in this world,

Accepting them as a gift to be received gratefully?

Nothing on this earth is forever.

We cannot keep time,

It was not given to us to be kept.

It was given instead to be enjoyed,

Lived to the fullest in harmony with our fellow transients.

Who like us will run out of the gift of time, some day, some hour,

Only to join our ancestors in eternity.

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Spring Dream – Haiku

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Credit – en.wikipedia.org

Winter doldrums live

As we watch through our windows

Awaiting first buds

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Lost Love – Haiku

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Credit – glamquotes.com

Love lost to neglect

Cast upon a foreign sea

Drowning in anguish

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

The Optimist

Who we are right now,

Will become a shadow,

A flashback to who we are.

We evolve by the second,

We can change who we are in an instant,

Becoming someone reinvented,

Exhibiting new talents,

Changing how we represent ourselves,

Born anew.

The person we had always dreamed we’d be,

All by our thoughts and efforts.

We are who we want to be because we will it,

Making demands on ourselves and our circumstances.

We force the people and things surrounding us to change,

Or we change the people and things around us.

Either way we are reborn.

The person we were yesterday is no more,

Say hello to the contemporary you.

 

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Demon Alcohol – Haiku

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Burying the pain

Alcohol numbs the senses

Leaving us hollow

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

A Passionate Embrace

Sweethearts converge in a passionate dance,

Lovers embrace, eyes locked in a trance.

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Gliding on a silk and satin tidalwave,

To the other their hearts each selflessly gave.

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Souls intertwined in a romantic song,

Soaked in the potion of their love for so long.

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Their rhythm flows with each beat of their hearts,

Breaths come more rapid as ecstasy starts.

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Invisible to the world, it’s existence fades,

Consumed with each other their bodies obey.

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Observers may say their infatuation can’t last,

Their hearts disagree as pulses flutter fast.

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A state of euphoria envelops and besets,

Neither lover capable to resist or regret.

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A sensual moment shared between two symbiotic lives,

Stokes a fire eternal as their yearning grows and thrives.

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Those shy of passion these feeling could not know,

Concerning matters of affection they dare never go.

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Where love is involved it grows hot and grows quick,

Feeding the flame is the eternal trick.

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For romance to last the heat of passion must run deep,

Cherish and be devoted to the others heart you keep.

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Thin Ice – Haiku

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Credit – timemanage.com

An icy skin forms

Far too thin for ice skating

I’d fall through and drown

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Winter, Here and Gone – Haiku

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Credit: theroamingboomers.com

Flowers dormant fade

Below freezing for one week

A desert winter

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

A Frosty Morning – Haiku

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Credit – cthepower.org

Breath seen like a cloud

Floating free from frigid hosts

To vanish at dawn

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

A Random Act

An outstretched hand offered to the fallen

A kind word spoken to those in distress

A shoulder to cry on for those in mourning

Offered to comfort the wounded among us

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A gentle hug to let them know you care

A tender kiss to show your affection

A stroke of the hair letting them know you are by their side

Given without condition from the goodness of a gentle heart

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A pat on the back to show appreciation

A wide knowing smile to brighten their day

A look into their eyes to acknowledge their existence

Lifting the spirits of those who suffer themselves forgotten

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All things that daily we ought to make offer

Random acts of kindness shown to our fellow man

Still in our humanness we forget these little things

Simple acts that serve to enrich our karma

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Instead we neglect our neighbors out of hand

Evading eye contact

Dismissing their difficulties

Oblivious to their losses

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Is it because we are too engaged

Or is it that we just don’t care

How sad this is

Living life absorbed in our own self-interests

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Wrapped in a box of our own making

A cocoon made from our own selfishness

Useless but as a tomb when it is our time

Unloved, unappreciated, unnoticed, will you pass on alone

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~