Soulfully embrace
The laughter of your children
For innocence fades
Replaced by cynicism
And angst in adolescence
If left to fester
Cherish the inner child
Promote it’s beauty
This will lead to a full life
Filled with joyful abundance
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
My dearest of friends
Though our paths have never crossed
Call me your brother
Fall into my outstretched arms
I will be there to catch you
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Please look no further
I’ve always been here from you
Rock of Gibralter
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I gifted my heart
So many years ago now
Like priceless treasure
Cherished and highly prized
Then held for ransom
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Sadness, quiet, eerie blows,
On garnished leaves to where who knows,
A fall from grace in painful throes,
To die in forlorn anonymity.
~
Acrid tears fall on arid plain,
O’er rock and berm toward sea of flame,
Where passion burns lone side disdains,
A heart in mangled perpetuity.
~
Asphyxiated soul, torrid and weak,
Heaves vital breath for redolence to seek,
Speechless and winded, powerless to speak,
In silence thy sentience doth flicker.
~
These stolid misfortunes no more shall they hinder,
Gathered in bushel– cloaked as barren split tinder,
Leaving the past a hoard of smoldering cinders,
With courage, volition sustains.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
A warm summer breeze
Skin glistening in the sun
Like the souls mirror
Releasing your true essence
Out to a waiting world
~
A Tanka
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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A child, sacred
Conceived out of love or lust
Shouldn’t suffer pain
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
The light fails me,
I open my eyes,
Hoping to see more clearly,
But there is no focus.
~
Nothing is as is should be,
My head hurts in the painful quiet,
There is no comfort,
In this cold empty bed.
~
I drove me to this madness,
And you, away in disgust,
I didn’t try to stop you,
Stubbornly shunning you.
~
Your tears did not deter,
I swore you’d be back,
How could you live without me,
After all these years.
~
But emptiness speaks volumes,
Shouting your answer,
“I’m gone!”
On my once deaf ears.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
The flash of a spark
Ignites the flame within me
Glowing blue and hot
Like your soft touch, electric
Lighting the fire in my soul
~ A Tanka ~
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Catapult my feelings to the sky
Scattered to poles by twisting winds
Revealed my heart so you may lie
Within my arms, true love begins
~
To you my words no justice do
My tongue in knots, I make no sense
Conduct portrays my emotions true
Offered up with no presumed pretense
~
I choose to pose my love in verse
Too shy to speak these heartfelt words
My love exposed, flowery and terse
In these my heart is garishly heard
~
I have no qualms in sharing my soul
It was meant at birth to be given to you
Without your hand I’ll never be whole
Through God and my faith I construe
~
Distress me no more with nary response
This agony more torturous than death
Mutter your reply, I urge you at once
Before drawing in my final breath.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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