We are told from birth
This world is your oyster
~~ Where’s the shucking knife
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Category Archives: Poetry
Travel On Dear Friend (Haiku)
Travel on dear friend
As if this day was your last
~~ Who knows what fate holds
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
What Defines Genius (Tanka)
What defines genius
Insanity on steroids
Or simply a gift
Perhaps it is some of each
With which we’ve all been endowed
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
A Ghostly Apparition (Sonnet)
A ghostly apparition on shoreline I spied,
Pacing to and fro through deep hours of night.
I thought from my window I captured her cry
From what must have been a terrible fright.
Dressed all in white from an era long gone
Stream of tears from my eyes I did shed.
Distress in her step and the pipers last song
This lover to her death must’ve led.
Legend exists of a star-crossed romance
Ending in the most tragic of ways.
They claim it occurred by strange circumstance
Young lovers they drowned in the bay.
When the shock finally passed nothing, but sorrow did I feel
There was nothing I could offer for her wounds I could not heal.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Warm Spring Winds (Haiku)
Warm spring winds blowing
Laugh in Old Man Winter’s face
~~ Nature’s confusion?
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Strained Parental Love (Tanka)
Strained parental love
Clashing personalities
Mother and daughter
One lashing out in anger
Are they just too much alike
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~~Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Winter’s Reaper Stuck (Haiku)
Winter’s reaper struck
Cutting a swath through great lands
~~ Glazed in frozen death
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
The Circle
The circle,
Crimson hooded,
Black robed wickens of sorts.
Dancing around the dead,
Salivating in anticipation,
A feast of flesh and bones.
No ill will did they harbor,
Nor wish for victims demise;
Fate granted them favor.
Not at Satan’s command,
This is their nature.
Despised by the living
As a filthy wretched horde,
Outcasts of nature
Though their purpose is divine.
They are mocked and ridiculed,
Loathed and feared,
Still they offer back to the earth
What the earth has taken.
The vulture’s cry–
A lonesome song.
Treated as lepers of the sky,
Precious are they…
In the natural chain.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Bread, Milk, Stocked Pantry (Tanka)
Bread, milk, stocked pantry
Protection from arctic cold
Taken for granted
No comfort to the homeless
Freezing and dying alone
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
A Child’s Blank Stare (Haiku)
A child’s blank stare
Living a life undeserved
~~ Poverty destroys
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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