Templar Knight (Shadorma)
Templar knight
Prepares to face death
Enemies
Heed God’s call
Convert before it’s too late
Or prepare to die
Knight (Acrostic)
Know and feared by all
None dare stand in their way
Invoking their wrath
God has so ordained
Heathens and heretics bow before them
To meet their maker
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Bastet’s Shadorma (and Acrostic) Prompt – September 20, 2014
Armor – By G.S.K.
Left alone
Stranded and starving
Walls confine
What to do
Surrounded by tenements
To fend for myself
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Where am I
Where are my kinsmen
My bright coat
I’m barren
Afraid to show my true self
For fear of the ax
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True sadness
Shows in every limb
Thin, haggard
Beyond frail
My fate clearly before me
A final fall draws near
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Prompt: Bastet’s Shadorma Prompt – July 26, 2014
Sun and Rain (C) G.s.k. ’14
Stairs
Travelers
On a worn stairway
Toward Heaven
Redemption
On the narrowest of paths
One step at a time
Stumbling
We grab the handrails
Looking up
As we climb
Hope of reward at the end
Is what we pray for
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Shadorma Photo Prompt #8
Shop in Rovereto dedicated to books, art supplies and prints
Addiction–
One pleasurable
Or painful
For some–sport
Others use it to feed their muse
To read or create
Or maybe–
Acquire artwork
That one loves
A vision
As seen through another’s eye
That speaks to the heart
Love shopping
Or not love shopping
No matter
We all do
Fall under its heady spell
Once in a while
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Prompt: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Shadorma Photo Prompt #7
Pinpoint moon
Celestial eye
Keeping watch
Up above
What could be more beautiful
In all the heavens
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Poetry Prompt Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Bastet’s Shadorma Photo Prompt #4
Brilliant stars
A sliver of moon
Magical
Perfection
I can see heaven from earth
What could be better
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Cloudless sky,
Granite peaks part blue
Bright canvas.
This painting,
Brushed from an artists palette,
A true masterpiece.
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Perfection,
Born of natures hand
Is flawless.
To compare
With the mortal works of man
Would be an insult.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Author’s Note: The Shadorma is a poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza (or sestet). The form is alleged to have originated in Spain. Each stanza has a syllable count of three syllables in the first line, five syllables in the second line, three syllables in the third and fourth lines, seven syllables in the fifth line, and five syllables in the sixth line (3/5/3/3/7/5) for a total of 26 syllables. A poem may consist of one stanza, or an unlimited number of stanzas (a series of shadormas). The information above was from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadorma.
Dom DiFrancesco 