Respect For The Earth (Tanka)

Respect for the earth

Our resources limited

Profit is the king

Nature loses to business

When money does the talking

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Their Blood Flows Freely

Their blood flows freely

Pakistani children dead

By the cowards deed

Sanctioned by their religion

Claim these psychotic killers

 

Refuse to show face

They hide behind scarf and mask

Belief they’re martyrs

Slaughtering the innocent

All for a fictitious cause

 

They are heinous fools

Blinded by virgins promise

Their gift from heaven

Heaven does not await them

Instead Hell has their names etched

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Winter Has Arrived (Haiku)

Winter has arrived
Calling in the end of life
Blossom waits for birth

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Lazy Saturday (Haiku)

Lazy Saturday
Basking in the southwest sun
Winter put on hold

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Sensitivity (Tanka)

Sensitivity
Lost to murderer on tv
And video games
Sometimes getting out-of-hand
Bankrupting morality

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

There’s No Place Like Home (Tanka)

There’s no place like home

Family huddled around

Sharing Christmas cheer

Unless home is on the street

And your cheer is someones trash

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

A little reminder to be generous to those in need at this time and all times of the year,  if for no other reason than it is the right thing to do.

Night Under The Stars (Haiku)

Night under the stars
Jewels garnish heavens cloak
Royal Majesty

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

I Am

I am–Nothing and everything

I am–Saint and sinner

I am–Man and Divine

I am–Living and dying

I am–Strong and fragile

I am–Love and hate

I am–Good and evil

I am–All of these things

For one cannot exist without the other.

 

Would you know the laudable in me

Without staring my indiscretions in the face?

 

Look within me to find the mirror of yourself,

All that I am is you, perfect and imperfect.

 

There is much for which I am not proud,

But I take comfort that I am who I am.

 

Just as it is fruitless for you to deny

That you are who you are.


~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Rocky Crags (Tanka)

Rocky crags–purple

Reaching for sky, razor-sharp

Just to touch heaven

Reunion with the Creator

Perfection being thankful

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Sad Is This Season

Sad is this season
That its kindness is fleeting
Gone in the new year
Replaced once again with greed
And loveless human spirit
Quickly we forget
The message of tradition
Tossing it aside
When it no longer serves us
Returning to loathsome ways

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~