The tenderest touch
Kissed by the first rays of dawn
Your skin against mine
Wrapped in Egyptian cotton
Cool in the rapture
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tag Archives: tanka
Perhaps I’m Poisoned (Tanka)
Perhaps I’m poisoned
Believing that man is good
In spite of himself
If only ego would sleep
We might be able to love
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Do Unto Others (Tanka)
Do unto others
As you wish be done to you
Simple and timeless
What’s so hard to understand
Love one another!
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Born Of Arrogance (Tanka)
Born of arrogance
Ego–bullying nations
Cultivating hate
Surprised when once allies turn
Never learning from the past
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Save Me From Myself (Tanka)
Save me from myself
Me–my own worst enemy
Critical and hard
Judgemental and corrosive
I torture my soul
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Blackened Heart Draws Blood (Tanka)
Blackened hearts draw blood
Cross and careless with their words
Hate grows like a weed
How does passion turn so cold
Killing off those we once loved
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Yellow Butterfly (Tanka)
Yellow butterfly
A short life lived with gusto
There’s no tomorrow
Like the throes of our passion
I’ll love you until the end
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Play To The Senses (Tanka)
Play to the senses
Sights and sounds stir in the mind
Like a poor man’s soup
Drawn from life experience
That only I could have lived
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Err On Cautions Side (Tanka)
Err on cautions side
When determined to cast stones
Reflections deceive
Where misinformation lives…
The bottom of a closed mind
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Imperfect System (Tanka)
Imperfect system
Still, it is better than most
Even when it fails
Of little consolation
To the living or the dead
~~ Dominic DiFrancesco ~~
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