Another Day on Planet Earth

By Frank Rosci

This book is a compilation of poems written over the last forty years, including as recently as March 2015. The subject matter is wide rangingfrom nature, religion, and relationships to travel and history, as well as to topics more whimsical and fanciful. I hope you will enjoy reading these poems as much as I enjoyed writing them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514416938

Frank Rosci

Frank Gabriel Rosci is a Philadelphia-born-and-bred writer who resides now in the small town of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, with his wife, Donna, and their three cats, Leo, Marlyn, and Bobby. Frank has been writing poetry for most of his life. When he isn't, he enjoys gardening, flea markets, and watching and playing sports, in particular baseball, golf, and basketball. As a writer and journalist, he has traveled throughout the United States and to forty-eight foreign countries. Frank has a bachelor of science from LaSalle University and a master of arts from the Pennsylvania State University.

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Copyright © 2016 by Frank Rosci.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Time Times Seven

Sooner Than Later

Another Day on Planet Earth

Treasures in the Judean Desert

Orion

Daybreak

The Shore

Will I?

View from a Hill

StarTime

Night Rest

Wolf Moon

Morning Glory

Forest Blue

Mercury Memory

Above the Clouds, Under the Dome

Ten Two-Line Stanzas

Spring Rain

New Moon Nights

The Staged Phases of Day and Night

Night Watch

Dawn

Entwined

Creato

To Pass Through

One Penny

For Donna

Faithfully

May Moon

MoonStar

Flurries

Safe Harbor

Lived and Loved from of Old

Sun and Moon

For Donna Too

A Winter Night’s Sleep

Grains of Grey

Wanderlust Wonderland

Full-Length Mirror

Pathways Tinged in Red

When the Wind Blows

With Open Palms

Dreaming in Green

There Is a Longing

Freely Given and Taken

From the Northwest

Silently Again

Moratorium

Last Late Looks

On Seeing by Chance a Bird Flying on a Summer Evening

Edge and Circle

On the Cusp

Strewn to Shelter

To Compel Attention

Light-Grey Paws

Stare Bravely

October Brown

Star Blessings

WaterFall Rain

Into Light

Candles Amid Quiet

Covenant Supper

Of Laud and Life

Continuum

Rome Rain

Jigsaw

Not Tamed

Black on Brown

Lightly Shaded

Like Fragmented Metal

Immersed

Separation No. 4

Petition

Stillness

Acadia Summer Dawn

Magenta, Gold and Orange

(H)’ogs

Unchanging

Harmony

Stargazing

Observed

Nuncios

Ages Old

Night Birds

Passage

Love Unfolded

Close to Knowing

The Thick and Thin of Night

Lines of Winter Words

Four Signs

Apprehension Arrested

A Pillow and a Blanket

Unimpeded

Layers and Layers of Priceless Perfumes

Diggin’ It

Lunar Eclipse

Restless Dreams

Imminence

Full Circle

To Call Aloud

Breathe Deeply

Coda

Soul to Soul

A Mantle of Moon and Stars

Ice Fields

Composition

Pleasantries and Procession

Swans

Northern Wood

Saturation

At Evenfall

Once

Trace Out

Crossings

Shining on in Blue

By All Appearances

In One-Quarter Time

Clouds

Awe

Steel Wheels

Wind and Water

Preternatural

Downward

The Cycled Circle

Attestation

Forms

Shards

When Light and Time

Winter Bare

Cinnamon Swirl

From Precipice

White to Red

Closure

Unbridled Beginnings

Out West

Illuminata

Winter Nights

Universality

Inseparable

The Snows of Winter

South Wind Salt

Some Months

Night Air Taken

180°

Pages

October

Snow

Love

Look Up Tonight

Through Every Hour

Immutable

High Above the Everyday

Strength and Weakness

Treetrunked

Leo’s Take on Things

August

Faces

Completeness

An Acadia Pond

Meadow

Dewfall

Sanctuary

Feel Safe

Insight

On and On

Gone for New

If from on High

Quietude

Fanfare for a City-Scape

Like Quicksilver

Solatio

Resurrection Framework

Glory

Eurhythmic

Caught Unawares

Burning

In Blues and Greens

Spirit Calls

All Around Us

Silt

MoonTree

A Seeker in Snowfields

Reflections

Winter Fields

Now and Then

Ticking

Make Straight a Crooked Course

In the Clearing

Startled

Foretold and Fulfilled

Moonlight

New World

Identity

Brilliance

Left, Right, Center

More, Not Less

Genesis Arcs

IceBright

February Salvation

Waterworn

In Aeternum

Concilliance

Remnants

To Have and Have Not

In Silent Wonder

At the Close of Day

In the Air

All the Same

Canyons Deep

For All the World

Peace on Earth

Heaven Sent

Perfection

The Promise

Weeping Willows

Consider

Praise

Tranquility

At Its Rising

Seamlessly

Illusion

With a Broad Sweep

Rendezvous

Over Many Hours

The Shapes of Love

Ipso Facto

For Everyone Everywhere

Wholeness

Intercurrent

After the Morning Star

One of Nature’s Many Ways

Ferocity Untold

The Truly Industrious Among Us

In So Many Words

When Trumpets Sound

Oneness

Month In, Month Out

Autumn Bound

Contact

All Good Fortune

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the three most important women in my life: my wife Donna Jean, my mother Maria Nicoletta and my sister Antoinette Marie

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Time Times Seven

Time passes

in the falling

of leaves

in the aging

of trees

in the passage

of stars

in the breaking

of hearts

from morning to eve

in the cry

of a baby,

in the crashing

of waves

on the shore

in the slamming

of a door

in the eye

of a storm

in the rising

of the sun

and in its setting…

time passes

Sooner Than Later

Standing in moonlight

at midnight

bathed in the silver-bright

searching the depths

of the silent sky

reaching in my own way

in my mind’s eye

the horizon of some distant sea

far, far beyond this place’s endless string

of rooftops flat and black…

now waiting, lying on my back

for the first, faint signs of daybreak

of morning awake

of escape

still hours and miles away

Another Day on Planet Earth

In moonlight at midnight

the sleeping earth is so quiet

so uncomplicated

so serene

so subdued

so imbued with peace

as it moves in silent shadow

between still