Strained parental love
Clashing personalities
Mother and daughter
One lashing out in anger
Are they just too much alike
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~~Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tag Archives: tanka
Bread, Milk, Stocked Pantry (Tanka)
Bread, milk, stocked pantry
Protection from arctic cold
Taken for granted
No comfort to the homeless
Freezing and dying alone
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Another Birthday – Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. (Tanka)
Another birthday
You would have been eighty five
It wasn’t to be
Your dream viewed as dangerous
They took you away too soon
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Simply Being Kind (Tanka)
Simply being kind
So incredibly easy
Yet hard for so many
Its easier to be cruel
Than to see good in others
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Looking to Others (Tanka)
Looking to others
Many go seeking their joy
Never finding it
Because it was never lost
It was in them all along
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Is Love What We Think (Tanka)
Is love what we think
An emotion of the heart
Or is it a flaw
A flaw of human nature
Opening us to sorrow
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Our Hearts Fade to Black (Tanka)
Our hearts fade to black
When compromised by a love
Leaving them broken
This isn’t by our design
But by our God given flaws
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Blast of Arctic Cold (Tanka)
Blast of arctic cold
Chilling me ‘til blood runs thick
Rattling my bones
Like the loss of love’s passion
Breaking the innocent heart
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Our Resolutions (Tanka)
Our resolutions
Considered annually
But why once a year
Isn’t each day a new day
A new chance for improvement
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Wake To Tender Touch (Tanka)
Wake…to tender touch
Offered free in lovers glow
Gently from my soul
In the kindness of your smile
I find sweet serenity
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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