Cool air on warm skin
The visceral mood of fall
Summer has been slain
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tag Archives: summer
Shortened Days
Shortened days loom large
Precursor to winters gale
Like mortality
Calling summer to the womb
To await next year’s rebirth
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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
Siesta – A Tanka
Wind through cottonwoods
Rustling on summers breeze
Green against blue sky
Giving shade from noonday sun
Time for a long siesta
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Molten Pavement – A Tanka
Black molten pavement
Heat waves rising toward heaven
Obscuring vision
A long road trip to nowhere
Destination has no name
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
With The Coming Of Summer
With the coming of summer
The years midlife begins in earnest.
Infancy is replaced by the maturity of time,
The dead forgotten to the wake of new life,
No more is there the barrenness of winter.
Cold, gray nakedness gives way to colors multitude,
Death’s pungent odor yields to the fragrance of flora,
Rebirth is complete…for a time.
Youthful fauna take comfort in nature’s bounty
Feeding in gluttonous fervor,
Instinctively knowing it is but momentary,
With the scarcity of later year fast approaching.
What a wondrous gift is nature;
Our lives mimicking her cyclic clock,
Stages of life revealed since time began.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
In Memorial – A Tanka
Barbecues and beer
Welcoming a new summer
We’ve lost it’s meaning
Those who have died…forgotten
Gone is the memorial
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Cool Of Evening
Cool of evening settles
Blades, wicker slowly whirring overhead
It’s hum rhythmic in accompaniment
Crickets chirp softly
Bringing gently waving grass to life
O’ how calming is dusk
Tho’ sweat yet trickles from my brow
As from my tumblers chill
Tropical flavors, fresh mango and papaya
Sooth the scorched palate
Shimmering pools call to me
Beckoning to placate tortured skin
I can scarcely resist this sensual temptation
As the clang of greatly diminished cubes
rattle the bottom of my now empty glass
I succumb to temptation
Shedding heat dampened clothes as if on fire
Plunging headlong into diamond heaven
Refreshed as water streams down my face
Ushering in the chill of summers breeze
Over moistened skin
I am renewed, welcoming vitality
As if reacquainted with an old friend
What more could one desire on a sweltering night
Than to be comforted by cooling breezes,
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
A Balmy Wind Blows – A Tanka
A balmy wind blows
Like a lovers gentle breath
On skin warm and moist
Greeting eminent summer
As a returning hero
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Spring – Haiku
Image Credit: fanpop.com
Sun filled days await
As spring arrives in birds song
Dew replaces frost
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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