Settle for nothing
For settling leaves you cold
And full of regrets
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Reckless in My Youth (Haiku)
Reckless in my youth
Only to regret later
Part of growing up
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Hidden Amongst Ash
Hidden amongst ash
Bones and memories still thrive;
Haunting the living,
Choosing not to let them go
They are invited to stay.
We welcome them in
Sharing with them–our futures,
Our hopes and our dreams,
Only to be left in chains
Imprisoned by our dark past.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I Long For Silent Sleep
I long for silent sleep
Where dreams take holiday
And nightmares cower in their tombs.
Oh how I have prayed for the abolition of my demons
Banishing them back to Hell,
But I am weak and afraid.
They claw at me in my waking hours
And draw blood in my slumber.
I am but a frightened child
Bowing to their every whim.
To fight them can only encourage pain,
A pain suffered more than once o’er’ these many years.
So I deny the monsters that haunt me;
Pretending that all is well
While I await their next onslaught.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Ghosts
Ghosts are haunting me
Are they real or imaged
What does it matter
Things long dead keep appearing
Wanting to rejoin this life
This can’t be allowed
The past must be left buried
Buried forever
Like the fate of all dead things
To rest in peace–eternal
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Finality of Life (Sonnet)
Finality of life remains elusive to the young,
No concept do they have of how fleeting is time.
We all had our anthems that as teens we had sung
Shouting out defiance in verse and in rhyme.
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Then age ushers wisdom and illusion fades away
Leaving reality as a cold and harsh fact.
We realize that living must be lived for today
For tomorrow is for fools who will never act.
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Maybe the young had the idea all along
To live fearless and only for the day.
Never considering what was right or wrong
Instead choosing to do things their own way.
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Now as our ends draw ever near, we realize what little time we are here,
Do today whatever you can, do not postpone out of shyness or fear.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Looking Back
Looking back over rounded shoulders,
At friends who’ve long passed;
He can see them like yesterday,
So much like him today.
“Maybe I don’t want to go forward alone”, he thought,
His blanket of bronze and gold
Offering little warmth to his heart grown cold.
His parched lips quiver under mossy beard,
Longing for a sip of cool mountain water.
What lies ahead scares him
Standing at rivers edge.
In his youth no apprehension would he have shown,
His fearlessness bringing out the best in him,
But no longer is he fearless, no longer is he emulous.
Instead he is resigned to spend his life’s remainder…
Waving goodbye to what was
And what might have been.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
(Words at the Weekend – 17-18 August 2013 prompts)
http://boipoet.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/words-at-the-weekend-17-18-august-2013/
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 ~~
Let Go The Past
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Don’t regret the past
Focus on what lies ahead
You are it’s master
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Gone Is Gone
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By D. R. DiFrancesco
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Wasted away with reckless abandon
Abused and neglected as though nothing to lose
Elder years bestow the treasure most deeply cherished
For in youth we’re blind to the riches worth
Trusting the vein will flow eternal
“till tragedy or life doth rear it’s head
Once lost to gluttony its lost to eternity
No matter how hard we try to relive
Regret can destroy through foolishness folly
As we know not when we be called back home
Squander not the gift so limited and precious
Share freely with those you most dearly love
The value of time cannot be embellished
For fleeting moments once gone are gone
Dom DiFrancesco 