Monthly Archives: April 2015

Hawk Soars, Doing What It Was Born To Do

Hawk soars, doing what it was born to do.

What does he see, but his next meal…a path to procreation,

Nothing personal, it is a simple means of survival…

Prolongation of the species.

Is not man much the same, feeding on the weaker of the species?

In the end he is nothing more than an animal;

Carnivorous in more than his primal appetite,

Feasting on flesh and blood of the lesser to satisfy its needs…

Perpetuation of his own.

We claim to be of a higher ilk, greater than the common beast,

But we fool ourselves, we are nothing more than a bipedal wildebeest

Living up to Darwin’s own theory…

Survival of the fittest.


~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Eagle Circles Above (Haiku)

Eagle circles above

Seeking sustenance from earth

Nature’s perfection

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Today A Fresh Start (Tanka)

Today…a fresh start

The living Christ has risen

As a reminder

Each year a chance to return

Him to his sacred namesake

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

It’s Not About The Eggs

It’s not about the eggs

Candy or Easter bunny

But resurrection

Forgiveness is its meaning

For all of our mortal sins

Believing or not

Does not detract from longing

For eternal life

Something beyond this body

Into the realm of the spirit

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Restless (Acrostic)

Reading, writing

Everything and anything to sleep

Standing on my head…no I can’t do that

Tick-tock goes the clock

Listening to the voice in my head

Eager for it to be silent

Staring into the darkness

Secure that it will be another sleepless night

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Religious Freedom

Religious freedom

Legal discrimination

For modern zealots

Jesus Christ would be appalled

At your narrow mindedness

Constitutionally guaranteed

Why do we need another law

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Look All Around You (Haiku)

Look all around you

Don’t you see the Master’s work

Artists perfection

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Lush Green Against Blue (Haiku)

Lush green against blue

Dormant maple springs to life

Birth of the season

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Problem…Solution (Tanka)

Problem…solution

Our history makes it clear

The Boston Tea Party

The same kind of oppression

A few hundred years later

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Loftiest of Dreams

Loftiest of dreams cast into the shadows,

What is left to hope for?

Watching what we deem civilization crumble right before my eyes

I lament days gone by.

Overwhelming sadness pervades every waking hour;

I weep, though I weep not for me, but my progeny,

They shall inherit this chaos.

We were to be stewards protecting our world for the future;

We failed…instead we rape and pillage the earth for all that it has

Treading upon its inhabitants for our own profit.

What will be left to pass down, but devastation, war and famine;

The ugliness that we as a species have so ungraciously admitted,

Dwarfing the plagues of Biblical Egypt.

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~