Taken for granted
Love–over many long years
Assumed without words
Like breathing…done thoughtlessly
We think it will never end
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~~Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Wake…to tender touch
Offered free in lovers glow
Gently from my soul
In the kindness of your smile
I find sweet serenity
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Consciously adrift in melancholia today
A strange feeling of sorts, almost out-of-body.
Praying this awareness isn’t here to stay,
It has been some time since I have felt this oddly.
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Perhaps its the conclusion of a season so merry
Punctuating my customary schedule of labor,
Or the calming of life that for a time was so hurried
Returning to the normalcy of my common behavior.
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More like the drying of the druggy or drunkard,
The heart becomes heavy with worry and sadness.
These feelings have since grown increasingly absurd,
Leading me down this pathway toward madness.
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Pray tell–to what end does this folly intend,
In driving my soul to the brink of destruction?
Try as I might to bandage and mend
And pull myself out of this pit of compunction.
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On knees that are bent in prayer for reprieve
All one can hope for is its swiftness to pass.
Lifting up spirits and hasten sorrows to leave
Like sand as it trickles through narrow of the hourglass.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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How glorious the year as it comes to an end,
Thankful for all that I have received,
Complaints I have few, no regrets do I send,
Dismissing what should never be grieved.
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Thankful for all that I have received,
A fool would I be to complain,
Dismissing what should never be grieved,
Cherishing that which remains.
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A fool would I be to complain,
Perceived as nothing but a whiner,
Cherishing that which remains,
Leaving only the good which is finer.
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Perceived as nothing but a whiner,
Is something which should never be attained,
Leaving only the good which is finer,
To those that will follow unconstrained.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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AUTHOR’S NOTE:
Description taken from : http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/pantoum.html
The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.
The design is simple:
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
.
Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
Line 6
Line 7 (repeat of line 4)
Line 8
Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanza then repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.
Last stanza:
Line 2 of previous stanza
Line 3 of first stanza
Line 4 of previous stanza
Line 1 of first stanza
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This modern day doth promote looseness of lips
Easily speaking with nary a thought,
Then later in regret we come to grips
With what is proper as we had been taught.
A click of send with no recall,
Forever unleashed upon our world,
Try as we might we can never stall
The insults and hurt that we have hurled.
Nay, neither you nor I are immune;
We’re feeble and frail in our judgement moral.
Apologizing and vowing a different tune,
We beg forgiveness both written and oral.
Would it not have been best to have bitten our tongue
Forgoing the backlash that has now begun.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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A winter wind blows
Across the barren landscape
~ Victim to the cold
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Another Christmas
Filled with anticipation
It comes then its gone
Will spirit leave as quickly
Resulting in depression
The gifts are opened
Dinner and dessert are done
Family–friends gone
What have we left of Christmas
When all excitement passes on
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Youth breeds fearlessness
Something traded for wisdom
Or lost to aging
Only by progenies birth
Is their error realized
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
