Happy birthday, Brother Dario,
Listen to the sublime music;
Man's life is like a stereo,
The sound is truly fantastic,
Topic: Birthday of Dario Rutaquio (March 09)
Categories:
dario, birthday,
Form: Quatrain
D-enotation
A-bout
R-emarkable
I-nstruction
O-f
R-ighteousness
E-xcellently
B-rings
A-wesome
M-essage
O-f
N-oble
T-houghtful
E-xpression
Topic: Birthday of Dario Rebamonte (April 11)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
dario, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
D-ecisions
A-re
R-ight
I-f
O-ne
R-eally
U-ses
T-he
A-stounding
Q-uality
U-nderstanding
I-ts
O-ptimism
Topic: Birthday of Dario Rutaquio (March 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
dario, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Certain people in our lives
Help ease the days along.
Without them, we might flounder
And might not seem quite so strong.
They often are unheralded
Yet all the things they do
Allow us, with our challenges,
To somehow make it through.
And when they sometimes disappear,
For reasons of their own,
We mourn the loss of comfort
And security we've known.
But sadly, our acceptance
Of the truth makes a demand
That our minds make peace with knowledge
That our hearts can't understand.
Written for Noreen O'Connor, a devoted former
employee of Abbott House, an organization that runs the
group home of which my daughter is a resident
(she was let go) and Dario Jaquez, a doorman in
my building I've known since 1976 (he just retired).
Categories:
dario, people,
Form: Rhyme
In the grand scheme of balances, distances, experiences, instances, circumstances, I forgive you
Although previously I wish I knew
Your love could sometimes grow untrue
Prompting me approach and tactic to reconsider
To avoid making a serious blunder
That turns me into a mere bystander
To developments we evoke
With every bond brushstroke
As with skill and savvy we revoke
Steps that in the long run provoke
Cupid’s ire
To plunge you and I into the pyre
That burns residues and remnants that expire
When we put our best foot forward to consolidate the best scenario
You and I have sampled in Ontario
In the company the awesome trio: Mario, Dario and Rosario
To reinvent our rejuvenated and reinvigorated relationship
On a love voyage on an amorous ship
Where we grow more than face value friendship.
Categories:
dario, poems,
Form: Free verse