Tag Archives: living

I Think – A Tanka

I think…I’m thinking

Ne’er ceasing, ever changing

Like tides ebb and flow

Under natures influence

Yet free to carve my own course

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Spent – A Tanka

Spent, my heart racing

Pounding to the souls rhythm

Mute before love pure

You, the muse granting me breath

For without I would perish

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

We Belong – An Etheree

We

belong

as one with

our brothers and

sisters as we walk

this unkempt road of life

from beginning to it’s end.

Race, creed, color, orientation

do not define the person inside

they are but labels used to divide us.

………………………………………………………………..

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Enough – A Tanka

Somber do I feel

Weeping for the worlds pains

As if mine alone

In our culture of excess

Is there not enough for all

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Mine Alone

These dreams, my dreams, mine alone,

Shared at will or hidden away,

Lived out to fruition or buried in my minds tomb,

My choice, mine alone.

~

Whether they live, whether they die is for me to decide,

They are my minions doing as I say, doing as I do,

Never questioning, never revolting, just being,

Mine to rule, mine alone.

~

Granted at birth, one with the essence,

Natural as breathing, the blood coursing through my veins,

Beholden to my whims, subject to my wishes,

Mine to shape, mine alone.

~

These dreams, my reality, my world,

All I know, all I truly possess,

They can never be taken from me, they are mine,

Mine alone.

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Random Events

Torrential storm of random events

Beyond control your mood doth set

Thrusting outward in time repents

A heart in sorrow, forgiveness gets

~

I know not why I shelter inside

Negativity of others inside my mind

Or what I create I cannot hide

Instead of release ‘til death do bind

~

Should not happiness instill us all

Casting out that beyond control

Living in joy postpone bearer’s pall

Before its too late to corpse console

~

Random events are as they say

No path nor end hath fate defined

Life as we make and live this day

Should not be treated as a grind

~

Up to us all, our inner smile

Nourish and nurture to heart’s desire

Striving to best our every trial

Patiently dousing our temper’s fire

~

Easier said, more difficult to do

In this life we live on lease

Being as one with nature wrings true

Thriving and resting in peace

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Life’s Drama

As drama unfolds

Hiding insecurity

I am wondering

Why do I question myself

When I should just be happy

This tears at my soul

Leaving a hole I can’t fill

Even though I try

Can this be considered fair

In the grand scheme of my life

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

The Spirits Journey – A Tanka

This journey followed

One created for myself

Existed within me

Born before my date of birth

In the universal mind

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Rising From Despair – A Tanka

Rising from despair

To find solace in living

As part of this world

Vital as air and water

The creator of my fate

~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Pain Of Loss – A Triolet

The pain of loss doth help one grow,

Though for a time a seeming lie.

— A truth of life one surely knows

The pain of loss doth help one grow,

In time tears departed surely show,

   That living breaks deaths scheming lie

The pain of loss doth help one grow,

Though for a time a seeming lie?

                          ~

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

AUTHORS NOTE: I thought I would give a new (old) form of poetry a try.  This form is called a triolet and dates back to 13th century France.