Gather Up Your Dreams (Tanka)

Gather up your dreams
Clutch them tightly to your breast
Never letting go

Believe they will manifest…
This becomes reality

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Through A Sleepless Night (Tanka)

Through a sleepless night
Filled with abundant chaos
I arise thankful
Accepting this rocky road
As a temporary turn

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Though This Shell Withers

Though this shell withers

Returning to whence it came

I shall never die

Time cannot kill the spirit

For the spirit’s always been

It is eternal

Without substance to hinder

Therefore unrestrained

In this I take great comfort

That there is–eternal life

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

A Kaleidoscope

A kaleidoscope

Colors of the rainbow

Ever changing.

Each twist a new pattern.

Pointed toward the light…

More vibrant are its wonders

While darkness…

Depresses its beauty

Leaving it muted and bland.

Such is the life of man.

Each moment…

A twist of the kaleidoscope

New and fresh.

Vibrant when lived in the light,

Depressing and deadly

When lived in darkness.

How easy it is to wallow,

Rotting from the blackness in life

If one is consumed,

When the light and love

Is well within reach

…If one chooses to grasp it.

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

By Judging Others (Senryu)

By judging others

We miss the miniscule spark

Genius in the flesh


~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Hidden Amongst Fear (Tanka)

Hidden amongst fear

Is power and potential

If you will dig deep

Don’t look to the external

It’s been in you all along


~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Saplings Bend In Wind (Senryu)

Saplings bend in wind
Because they must to survive
Man could learn from trees

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Visions In My Mind (Tanka)

Visions in my mind

Vivid as day though eyes closed

Finally at peace

In silence I’m transported

Through joyful meditation

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Subtle Energy

Subtle energy,

A gift–to me from the ancestors.

My way of giving to others.

Not as the source,

But as a humble conduit.

I am minute,

A speck of something much larger.

Using the gentlest of touch

Or even none at all

Healing from the Divine passes.

Knowing energy–

Through the most mortal of hands.

Some call it evil,

The work of the devil,

But it is not, how could it be

When offered with love.

Perhaps its mystery scares them

Or perhaps it threatens their beliefs,

I do not know.

Such a strange twist of logic is this,

To dismiss something born of goodness

That can never harm.

If only all beliefs were as pure

And as in tune with nature as this.

Would not the world be a more peaceful, loving…

And less violent place.

 

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Celestial Peace

Celestial peace
Seeps into this earthly soul
A slice of heaven
Perhaps this mortal being
Is a piece of the Divine
Not just in image
But a spark of God itself
If only we’d see

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~