Barbecues and beer
Welcoming a new summer
We’ve lost it’s meaning
Those who have died…forgotten
Gone is the memorial
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tag Archives: lost
Answers
Answers–sought after for a lifetime,
Ebbing and flowing,
Never concrete.
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Arms outstretched,
We reach…reaching…
Still always just out of our grasp.
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Ignorant, we think our quest has ended,
Circumstances change,
What once was gospel dissipates.
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We think ourselves wise,
But mere fools are we,
Not knowing that we know nothing.
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Time has proven our innocent arrogance,
Dumbfounded,
We lumber on.
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Still this is not new to mankind,
As antiquity portends,
Locked in this eternal struggle.
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In our end we may finally realize,
We are not so unlike those that came before,
Seeking, yet failing to understand what this all means.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Fleeting…Time Escapes – A Tanka
Fleeting…Time escapes
Roses bloom then die…To late
Gone is their fragrance
Another chance has been missed
Ever fewer lay ahead
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Confusion
Confusion…
Cacophony of sights and sounds
Soupy mixture
A distasteful bombardment
Inescapable…
Every turn a stone wall
Pounding and punishing
Piercing flesh
Drawing blood
Fracturing bone
Draining every last drop of energy
Pushing back
Nothing but resistance
Drenched in sweat
Eyes sting
Bloodshot from strain
Head in hands
Driven to tears
Trapped…
Beaten into submission
Giving up
You win
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Calls Go Unanswered – A Tanka
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Calls go unanswered
Are you not at all concerned
Like ships lost at sea
When late to arrive at port
We send out a search party
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
The Fallen – A Tanka
Hands used to hard work
By night, lay calloused and broke
Like a fallen oak
Brought to it’s knees by axemen
Split and forgotten
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
The Road Home
Stove burners blue flame
Dangerous heat
Warming frigid trembling hands
Radiator cold
Rent control all he can afford
Children absent and estranged
He’s invisible in this world
Old friends to the old man gone
Passed before his time
Rotary telephone shows its age
Symbiotically keeping pace
Silent and out-of-date
Thoughts of youth flutter
Flashbacks in his fragmenting mind
Remembrances of companions
Lost loves
And a wife
Still 20 to him,
After a lonely decade adrift
Living because he won’t die
He longs to sleep forever
But it is not God’s will
Not his time
Shuffling to the stove
He warms his trembling hands
To wait for meals-on-wheels
Or the Lord to take him home
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Forgotten
Little one,
You never asked to be brought into this world.
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Cold and cruel,
Born on the wrong side of the tracks.
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A mother’s love,
Can feed the soul, but the body still craves.
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Too young to speak,
Still your cries speak louder than any words.
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Sustenance is your right,
Denial would only draw covenant with your demise.
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Dying is inevitable,
A fact of life, but a fate undeserved to one so young.
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Blamed for your station,
You live in the shadows,
Cursed by the sins of your father,
Left to scavenge at the fringes,
Only to be forgotten,
Or treated as a pariah,
By defect of conscience.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Here Today Gone Tomorrow
Calloused hands cracked and bleeding
Ne’er a chance to heal
Family counting on the sweat of labor
For sustenance
And a roof overhead
Nothing more matters in this world
Molten steel pays the bills
Scalded skin and blisters overtime
And he’ll go it again tomorrow
The mill a second home
Thirty years, a day never missed
But what matter does it make
Pink slips are coming
Jobs moving overseas
Loyalty counts for nothing these days
Just a number easily erased
Profits put ahead of people
Born of cheaper labor in the Far East
Silence over dinner
Uncertainty an unwelcomed guest
Visits every evening
Wifes eyes offer comfort
Hidden deep, she knows there is none
How to go on
Everything lost
Skilled to do little else
Some would call this progress
Another unnamed martyr
Of the corporate machine
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Cold, Cold Heart – A Tanka
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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 ~~
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