Tag Archives: poetry

The Fire – A Sedoka

A gentle caress

Tracing jaw line cheek to chin

Ignites flaming desire

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Your breath on my ear

Stokes the fire of my love

For no one other than you

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Summer Nights – A Kyrielle

 Summer nights in sweltering heat.

Crickets chirp ne’er miss a beat.

Cheerful song, devil-may-care.

Like a knife cuts stagnant air.

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Ribbit goes the frog in pond.

Male to female they both respond.

Spawning tadpole the two a pair.

Like a knife cuts stagnant air.

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Heat of night does not deter.

Frog and cricket both concur.

Beautiful songs they both do share.

Like a knife cuts stagnant air.

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By  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

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~~ 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

For You

I bleed for you,

When you cry I cry for you,

Tears that stain my soul,

Not out of sympathy alone,

Not out of pity,

Not out of martyrdom,

But out of purest love

True and genuine.

Ingrained like roots buried deep,

Twisting, wrapping around my bones;

Without them I would starve,

Without you I would wither,

An impossibility.

We are sown of perfect seed;

Ordained by the universe,

Bound by what cannot be bought,

It must be grown,

Watered,

Nourished,

Nurtured to maturity,

Protected until the end of time–

I am yours.

~

By: Dominic R. DiFrancesco

 

Convoluted Love – A Tanka

Convoluted love

A labyrinth of emotions

Wrenching at the heart

Leaving you vulnerable

And easily dismembered

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~~ 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Blur of Sleep – A Tanka

Blur of sleep filled night

To rain filled sky-fall departs

How peaceful it is

This natural ensembles

Mesmerizing metronome

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Imbalance – A Tanka

Shadows overhead

Cast my soul into darkness

Threatening to drown

Though I know this is not me

Imbalance marks me victim

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~~  Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

 

Tears For Me – A Tanka

Sky-born droplets stream

Through riverbeds of life

Soaking to the skin

Looking towards heaven above

Awestruck…are these tears for me

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~