Tag Archives: soul

Spring Floats on Warm Breeze – A Tanka

Spring floats on warm breeze

Golden rays bronze winters pale

Reincarnation

Rebirth of blossoming soul

Natures call awakening

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Come Tranquility – A Haiku

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Come tranquility

My essence beckons you home

Tears have subsided

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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 ~~

What Awaits

I do not pretend, to know the truth,

Anymore than you…or the sun…or the moon,

Proving nothing short of ignorance otherwise.

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What I do know, is that death is inevitable;

Whether life be a second, a minute or decades,

Of this I am certain.

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Just as I am certain of my origin;

Beyond progeny…beyond paternity,

My essence existed before that of this earthly vessel,

And will certainly continue beyond it’s worldly demise,

Our human science has assured.

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I am, however steeped in uncertainty,

Uncertain of what lay in wait after this finite adventure.

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Will I be swallowed by consuming blackness,

Drifting endlessly…disjointedly into nothingness?

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Will I be welcomed at Heaven’s pearled gates,

Greeted with open arms into a paradise?

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Maybe Hell hath set it’s sights on my mortal soul,

Repaying me for the sinful life I’ve led?

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Or will my soul join with others

To live once again,

In the vessel of another of the newly-born?

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These all, are questions of faith,

Your faith…my faith,

Questions for which I have no answers.

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After a lifetime of curious inquiry,

I hold no greater insight into the afterlife,

Than were so endowed in me at my birth.

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Mirror on the Soul

A warm summer breeze

Skin glistening in the sun

Like the souls mirror

Releasing your true essence

Out to a waiting world

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A Tanka

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Truest of Loves

Catapult my feelings to the sky

Scattered to poles by twisting winds

Revealed my heart so you may lie

Within my arms, true love begins

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To you my words no justice do

My tongue in knots, I make no sense

Conduct portrays my emotions true

Offered up with no presumed pretense

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I choose to pose my love in verse

Too shy to speak these heartfelt words

My love exposed, flowery and terse

In these my heart is garishly heard

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I have no qualms in sharing my soul

It was meant at birth to be given to you

Without your hand I’ll never be whole

Through God and my faith I construe

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Distress me no more with nary response

This agony more torturous than death

Mutter your reply, I urge you at once

Before drawing in my final breath.

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Human Spirit – A Tanka

The spirit does live

Within every human soul

If only we look

Deep within our hidden selves

Allowing it to breath and thrive

 

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Eternal Night

The question eternal,

What lay beyond the infinite night?

I peer Heavenward for the answer,

Pleading for an omnipotent retort,

Never to be realized.

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On bended knee,

With hands grasped in prayer,

I have asked for absolution.

Hoping that there is life for me,

Beyond this earthly Hell.

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Surely there must be more,

How cruel the joke,

Were Heaven the fodder of fairytales.

This must not be,

I refuse to succumb to disbelief!

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This night I will read the Book,

Comforting myself in it’s inspiration,

Denouncing the wickedness of my sins.

By immersion in the prose of Psalm 51,

Praying for the cleansing of my soul.

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I will not surrender faith,

To the folly of Satan’s game,

Committing myself to his depths of despair.

Surely this mustn’t be my destiny,

If I am to be a child of the everlasting God.

 

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

The Finer Things – A Tanka

merlot

A walk on the beach

Sand, wind and sun renew

Like a fine Merlot

Warming one’s heart and one’s soul

While pleasing to the palate

~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~

Another Years Pass

By D. R. DiFrancesco

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Another page in a life has turned

To look back on what might have been

For hopes and dreams we fought and yearned

Have passed us by sight unseen.

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Resolutions born to steer our path

Put forth with the best and greatest intention

Champagne and music and social laugh

In hopes of better days we’ve mentioned.

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To morph our heart and soul required

Without we waste our solemn vows

A change of course to which we’ve aspired

Time grows shorter when failures allow.

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Renew the mind and the body will follow

Our spirit thrives when visions align

Life will fill and no longer be hollow

When sadness and regrets fade and resign

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Look toward the new year as an offer to grow

In spite of what you’ve let dissuade you

Strength and determination must be what you show

To face those that would trample imagination held true

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Trust your heart and your dreams will flower

No new years pass or resolution will save them

Endowed at birth with the universal power

To design your future while burying failures condemned.

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This strength you’ve had all this life that you’ve lived

Wound and ingrained into your very soul

Have courage to pursue all your passions not passive

For these are the things that make living life whole.