Shop in Rovereto dedicated to books, art supplies and prints
Addiction–
One pleasurable
Or painful
For some–sport
Others use it to feed their muse
To read or create
Or maybe–
Acquire artwork
That one loves
A vision
As seen through another’s eye
That speaks to the heart
Love shopping
Or not love shopping
No matter
We all do
Fall under its heady spell
Once in a while
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Shadorma Photo Prompt #7
Celebrate Halloween with Catalysts the newly released novella by Charles E. Yallowitz author of Legends of Windemere: Beginning of a Hero, and Legends of Windemere: Prodigy of Rainbow Tower.
How about kicking Halloween up a notch by picking up his horror novella for 99 cents…you might live just long enough not to regret it.
Catalysts by Charles E. Yallowitz
When trapped in an elevator together, Jeffrey and Darla learn that misery doesn’t always love company. With the screams of death and chaos echoing from outside, they find themselves slowly slipping into a world of fear and darkness they may never recover from. All the while, something is terrorizing the convention outside and turning the guests and celebrities into psychotic monsters.
Traveled far and wide
Never having left the house
Imagination
Running wild through the pages
Each chapter an adventure
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Travel to cliffs of Scotland tall
Ancient cities with golden scroll
Coliseum of wonder your columns fall
Time, wind and rain have taken their toll
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Fairytale lands with walkways of gold
Rabbits, a queen and Mad Hatters
Through Grimm and Poe the stories unfold
Whether Jack and his beanstalk does itt matter
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Absorbed in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
A cup of tea with Sherlock Holmes
Or Steinbeck’s exquisite Grapes of Wrath
When a Tree Grows in Brooklyn you’re never alone
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Traveling around the world in 80 days
Digging treasure on an island deserted
Meeting the end in Moby Dick’s’ way
Though Scrooge’s demise is diverted
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Dumas’ Musketeers are dashing them all
A letter of scarlet emblazoned
The howl of the wolf in the wild was called
Romeo and Juliet still amazes
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The beauty of words in fiction, poem or prose
Allows travel to faraway lands
Mystery, adventure or as love stories show
The pricelessness of books in the hand
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Shafts of golden beam
Carry dust and dreams
Through panes stained
From winds and rain
Warming on a cold winter’s day
Secured from dhill, inside I will stay
A cup of tea in one hand
Envisioning holiday in a warmer land
Comfort in a good book I will read
In these I find all the solace I need
Nothings better on a cold winter day
Than a good book, hot tea and…
A mind allowed to stray
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Credit – denverlibrary.org
By D. R. DiFrancesco
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Fading light settles in
A prelude to the eerie silence of night
Shadows cast their nets over daylights reign
Capturing the throne under cover of darkness
What games are in play
When evil lurks in the minds eye
Clear as sight, solid and treacherous
We fear that which we can imagine
Imagination resurrects the childhood stories and legends told
By Shelly and Stoker and the Brothers Grimm
Feeding the monsters and demons they preach
What odd fellows we are
Envisioning the worst in man and nature
Vividly foretold in ancient myth
In recesses deep and subconscious
We live to love what terrorizes the soul
Extracting joy from what scares us most
A strange conundrum of human nature is this
Void of logic and common sense
That what frightens us should serve to entertainment us
Dom DiFrancesco 