Hope springs eternal
Just a phrase to so many
Whose hope has faded
Left destitute and alone
Welcome to the new Main Street
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Let’s Hear It For The Gipper
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An embarrassment lay before the trustees feet.
No courage, no diplomacy from the ivory seats.
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They bicker and fight at the masses expense,
Void of logic this makes absolutely no sense.
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Elected to do all the peoples good work,
To captain the ship with nary a perk.
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Not to be so, as their pockets belie,
They weakened the law and stole all the pie.
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Neither a sliver did they take nor merely a slice,
They keep going back many times more than twice.
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Still as cattle to the polls we can’t help but repeat,
As if we were held to the fire by our feet.
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When will the swarm awaken from their dream,
To see that this always has been part of the scheme.
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Divide up the nation into haves and have nots,
Feed those without means into the haves corporate plot.
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This countries demise may be its own wretched greed,
Blind or not caring for a citizenry in need.
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Many poor have been baited that less gives you more,
A theory disproved by many before.
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Even Greenspan did admit that “trickle down” was a farce,
The wealth it went up, but the trickle fell sparse.
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Thirty years on, on the brink of collapse,
Austerity it is as we watch prosperity lapse.
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But still the Gipper’s name is held up enshrined,
His legacy it ticks like a bomb out of time.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Equal is Equal – A Haiku
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Equal is equal
Only when convenient
Discrimination
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
How Long Does Love Last
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How long does love last?
A question asked for eons,
Yet answers elude.
Wouldn’t it be best to ask,
How committed is your heart
To keep love alive?
For pondering loves demise
Will most certainly doom it to fail.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
A Gentle Caress – A Tanka
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A gentle caress
Awakens me from slumber
Like an angels touch
Sent down from Heaven above
To salvage this tortured soul
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Of Marriage Equality
This incessant fighting,
Selective equality,
Blatant discrimination,
Is this what America is about?
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Answer!, Those of you waving the constitution in our faces!
You cannot pick and choose when to hold it in high esteem,
You cannot pick and choose when and what to disregard.
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You say marriage equality is evil,
You say you are defending the children,
It will destroy conventional marriage,
Destroy the family.
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Nay I say!
The demise of the two parent family occurred long ago,
Half consumed by the flames of divorce.
I ask you, is not love of greater importance?
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Gay my friends, is not a disease,
It is not contagious,
It is not some choice made on a whim,
It is not a choice at all, but determined at birth.
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You heathens hide behind your religion,
You hide behind the robes of your God
So that you can carry on your campaign of bigotry feeling justified,
Distorting the word you so deeply cherish
To the detriment of your fellow man.
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Oh, but how funny it is!
How opinions change when they enter your life,
When they are your sons and daughters,
When they are your friends or next of kin.
Suddenly the world seems so much clearer
And that which you have taken exception to seems to disappear.
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Raise your voices dear friends!
Stand with your brothers and sisters,
Stand with your sons and daughters,
Stand with those having little voice.
We must be one if we are to be a great nation,
United…Equal…and Free!
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
O’ Precious Neighbor – A Tanka
O’ precious neighbor
Though we live worlds apart
We are of one soul
One mind and of one body
Our stories end the same way
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~~ Dominic DiFrancesco ~~
Temptation
I have taken hold of my senses and emotions,
Both temporal and natural, or so I thought.
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One, however refuses to submit,
Fails to retreat in the face of iron will.
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This one will continue to elude me
I fear, until my dying day.
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My nemesis, temptation, smells weakness
Drawing out the impetuosity of my youth.
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It taunts me with promises of wealth and joy,
Promises of gratification and self-aggrandizing,
Promises of love and power and strength.
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Incorrigible are these in their sloth and betrayal;
Resistance proves futile in the face of this demon,
This evil that has been plaguing man since time began.
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I fear I will continue in this mortal struggle
Until I breathe my last breath
Or conquer this most human of addictions,
Temptation.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Farewell Knights Templar
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The blood curdling scream from the dungeon below,
Made John pray to God for the hangman’s gallows.
This soldier of God stripped of vestments so pure,
Now nameless and faceless a test he was sure.
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I’ve done what was asked by king, country and Pope
In exchange for a promise to Heaven elope.
If I fall in battle to those savages in the east,
To sling, bow and arrow or some other horrid beast.
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Instead I’m betrayed by the kinsman I protect;
By cowards and fools those insignificant specks.,
Hiding behind crown whilst I lay on this rack,
Fingers and toes broke while they flail on my back.
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These charges of heresy are baseless and false,
I’ll deny to my death, to my last beating pulse.
Phillip IV King of motherland France,
Cooked up this scheme devious to embolden his stance.
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Our riches and land to be his at all costs,
No matter the lives of the Templar that are lost.
Castle and fortress captured by the crown,
Confiscated before Pope Clement could resound.
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This murderous thief will be judged before God,
Without royal finements, naked and unshod.
Surely he’ll be banished to Hades for his crimes,
Whilst I’ll be looking down on his torment for all times.
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Justice will be served though draw and quarter is my fate,
I long for the Lord at Saint Peter’s pearly gate.
For the righteous will receive promised Heaven’s just due,
Whilst river of fire awaits souls of evil to be threw.
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Soon my dear comrades in paradise I will join,
Those of you who’ve gone before by the heathen on the coin.
We’ll reap our sweet vengeance on this coward of the throne,
He’ll burn in Hell, consumed by fire, for eternity alone.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Creativity – A Tanka
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Creativity
Trying to break through this void
Where words elude me
She has left my side before
Returning in her own time
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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