Stacks puff their gray smoke
Debris like a beaver’s dam
Fish…belly up float
Stink of capitalism
Passed as unfettered progress
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Stacks puff their gray smoke
Debris like a beaver’s dam
Fish…belly up float
Stink of capitalism
Passed as unfettered progress
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Closing tired eyes
Crickets sing their blissful song
Calling me to dream
A tale written just for me
By the artist in my mind
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~~ Dominic R. DIFrancesco ~~
Emotions cast out
Like a net upon the sea
Unexpectedly
Take on a life of their own
Spiraling out of control
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
To sit in judgement
Of what lives in other’s minds
Is best left to God
For without omnipotence
Who am I to throw a stone
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Caution thrown windward
Broadens stagnant horizons
Sown by hesitance
Turning mediocrity
Into lifelong adventure
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Monsters and demons
Hide inside each one of us
Life of denial
Scared to face our deepest selves
Afraid of what we might see
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
When writing of you
Perplexed am I to the form.
No mold can contain you.
So much of life is a Parody,
Laughing at your ingrained silliness,
The mischievousness of your smile,
Twinkling eyes with a smoldering fire.
Haiku’s genteel nature is far too small,
Sister Tanka tries to express,
But her attention is much too short.
Perhaps an Ode would suffice
For flattery is your just due,
Ensued by inevitable embarrassment.
I could venture to sum your essence
Through the singularity of an Acrostic
Though this would scarcely scratch the surface.
Perhaps Triolet would be more fitting,
For none too often can I express the depth of my love;
Repetition surely would serve as reminder.
Even with all these
None can capture your unrestrained spirit,
The flow of you through space and time.
I will not try to confine you, that would be unfair.
Instead I will let you spread your wings
Writing your own verse
In the form of…
Free.
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
More than life itself
‘Tis you I love most deeply
That I would give all
My heart and my soul are yours
In this world and beyond
~
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I stand up then fall
Like a toddler past his prime
Every step my first
I suppose life works this way
Until the day of our death
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
No art lies in pain
Pain simply feeds the master
Like bread the hungry
Nourishing body and soul
Statue of David
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~