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Sorrow Fills My Heart – A Tanka

Sorrow fills my heart

These tears with anger replaced

I can cry no more

As sadness succumbs to rage

Hoping to exact revenge

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Love Can Be Painful – A Tanka

Love can be painful

Like a barbed wire wrapped heart

Bleeding and broken

Challenging love’s commitment

To withstand human weakness

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

This Love, My Love I Have Procured

This love, my love I have procured

With this cadence thumping in my breast.

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You have shadowed my sensibilities

Keeping step with tango’s passion.

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Nothing more could I inquire of you

Than that which you have deliberately given me.

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Fulfilled beyond words that you are mine and I yours,

Comrades and lovers in this roughshod world.

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So rare in this realm of disparate souls;

Failures of the heart abound in every corner,

Tear-drenched souls void of our gift,

How sad their discomfort.

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Neither crisis nor passing shall sever our bond;

Joined in Heaven we are destiny,

Our destiny, my destiny, your destiny,

For all these many years into eternity.

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You are and have forever been

My love,

My friend,

My everything.

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Stolen Heart – A Tanka

Hostage to passion

I open my heart to you

Like a treasure chest

Only to find it emptied

Riches callously stolen

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

The Finer Things – A Tanka

merlot

A walk on the beach

Sand, wind and sun renew

Like a fine Merlot

Warming one’s heart and one’s soul

While pleasing to the palate

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

The Heart Wants

You’ve broken my heart,

Taking what’s left of me,

Grinding me up,

Tossing my ash to the four winds.

Questioning what I saw in you,

I should have listened,

Love is blind,

And so was I.

Reckless and foolish,

Naive perhaps,

But isn’t that how love is,

Without logic,

Without thought,

Utterly ignorant.

They say,

The heart wants,

What the heart wants,

In this lies the only truth.

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Cold, Cold Heart – A Tanka

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Image Credit: dioxenya.devianart.com

The gray sky, clouds hover

Looks like another snow day

Cold, harsh, unfeeling

You left me for another

Shattering my heart like ice

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Invisible

This passionate heart,

Buried deep within, beating in rhythm with your every breath,

Yet I cannot find the right words to tell you so.

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Tongue tied by emotions in wont of regurgitation,

Swallowed back due to my own apprehension,

These burning embers sour in the pit of my stomach.

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I glance your way in hopes of recognition

Momentary contact from your crystalline blue eyes gives me hope

Until I realize you are looking through me.

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I am veiled from your sight,

The background in the play that is your life,

Dressing to complete your pretty picture.

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What must I do to lead in your panoply,

All that I am I would gladly bestow upon you,

Without hesitation or precondition.

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If only I was endowed with the fortitude,

But I am not and never have been,

Instead my timidity consumes me.

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Breathless I am left to watch you from the sidelines,

Only dreaming of what might have been,

Wishing that fate had shined a loving light upon us.

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But it was not to be,

As destiny has dictated the climax of this cruel tango,

Leaving one of us to be the wallflower.

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Love’s Symphony – Haiku

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Image credit femalepreneurlounge.com

Haunting symphony

Plucked strings and blown horns in tune

Play for a sad heart

~~ D. R.  DiFrancesco ~~