I yearn for your touch
Entwining flesh, heart and soul
White hot in my mind
Knowing this can never be
Eviscerates my essence
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tag Archives: passion
Beautiful Flower – A Tanka
Beautiful flower
How delicate your petals
Under soft caress
Anr adoring world awaits
To love you as I have done
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
The Heart Grows Fonder – A Tanka
The heart grows fonder
Absence, distance amplify
Plucking at the soul
Loneliness tears me hollow
I long for your warm embrace
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Lean Close – A Tanka
Lean close and listen
Do you hear the rhythmic beat
The hearts song it sings
Tapping out love’s flamenco
In throes of passion for you
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I Beg Of Heaven – A Villanelle
I beg of heaven for light of day
For night fills dreams of you with fear
On bended knee in tears I pray
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What can I do, what dare I say
To break this darkness with love and cheer
I beg of heaven for light of day
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This deep despair I keep at bay
In hopes you’ll return my cherished dear
On bended knee in tears I pray
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I never would your heart betray
My passion felt I have made so clear
I beg of heaven for light of day
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Were I to change would then you stay
Anything I’d do to mend heartbreak severe
On bended knee in tears I pray
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To you, I promise to never stray
Your honor I’ll guard and never besmear
I beg of heaven for light of day
On bended knee in tears I pray
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
** I thought I would give a new style a try. The Villanelle is in the form of A1 B A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2. It is very structured, but was interesting to write. I would appreciate any feedback you may wish to provide. Thanks.
I Think Of You
I think of you…
When I’m alone
In a crowded theater
Just before I close my eyes
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I see you…
In the face of every stranger
Standing beside me in the mirror
Lying next to me while I sleep
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I feel you…
When we are apart
When I caress a picture you
In my most restful dreams
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Know I love you…
‘Til my dying day
With every fibre of my being
With every breath I take
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Simple things to express the depth of my love
Never ebbing, heartfelt and passionate
Engrained into my soul
My soulmate, my lover, my friend
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Passion Unspoken – A Tanka
Passion unspoken
Gentle touch…a kiss
With soft moans assent
Intertwined and euphoric
Two hearts inseverable
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Song For You
Songs sung– Sung to you
I sing to you– Songs of truth
You– I hold so dear
Never were my eyes so clear
Comfort me and all my fears
Love grows– As years pass
Subtle, soft and sweet it lasts
This– I know as true
This I knew as passion grew
Love will outlast time
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Icy Froth
Icy froth crashes over unshod feet,
Numbing and cramping as they slowly sink into sea-washed sand,
Pant legs soaked with limitless brine.
The gale whips up waves dressed in white one after another,
Chilling me to the bone with cold excitement,
Breath and spirit become one with the undulation.
Sting of salt spray does not deter as I spy the fractured horizon,
Dreaming of serving on the distant freighter
Rising and falling with the swells on it’s way to exotic ports.
What better life is there than to work shoulder-to-shoulder with your brethren
Under sun and on sea,
Conjoined with the natural forces overhead and underfoot.
Were it not for you my love– this destiny I would have fulfilled,
But alas…it was not to be,
For I love you more than the sand, the sun and the sea.
So here I stand,
Looking out on what might have been,
Joyful for what is
And content with what will be.
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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 ~~
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