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“There Is A Whole Lot of Fear Out There” Revised, copyright 2010 John J. Rigo, upcoming book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”

Posted in Poetry, tagged A McKinney Poet, A McKinney Poets' charity programs, A new poem by a Texas' Poet, A non-profit fund raising opportunity for the Collin County area of Texas, A published poet who has won the Collin County Texas Poetry Award, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', Being Fearless in a Frigthened World, Believe in our Eternies of Glory, Conguering fear in your life, Overcoming fear, Poetry, Winning Poet of the Collin County Texas Poetry Contest on March 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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There is a whole lot of fear out there.

Only with Courage can we overcome.

Being fearless in a frightened world

is within our daily prayers.

Let us not falter in our belief

in the Glory of God.

He will lead us to victory

in every battle.

Praise to our Lord

Glory in His Name.

An Eternity of Love

awaits for those

who believe.

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"The Eternal Kiss" John J. Rigo copyright 2005 "Roses Amidst Thorns"

Posted in Poetry, Selection from "Roses Amidst Thorns" published in 2005, tagged A McKinney Texas' newest poetry work, A published poet who has won the Collin County Texas Poetry Award, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', Poetry, Top 200 poets internationally in Who's Who, Winning Poet of the Collin County Texas Poetry Contest on March 10, 2012| 1 Comment »

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I kiss thee

with my heart

upon my lips.

My breath held

in anticipation

of the moment.

Held so long

afraid to take

that next breath.

for this magic

overtakes me

in this moment

forever locked

in your embrace.

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"Reunion" Copyright 2008 John J. Rigo upcoming poetry book "Passion Amidst Apathy"

Posted in McKinney Texas' Poetry site chosen to be "Top Editors Choice.", Poetry, upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy", tagged "Reunion" A poem by John J. Rigo of McKinney Texas, a binding of hearts, a connection of all our souls, A McKinney Poets' charity programs, A published poet who has won the Collin County Texas Poetry Award, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', In Memory of John J. Rigo's Seventh Birthday this week, Poetry, texas poetry, Winning Poet of the Collin County Texas Poetry Contest on March 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Today I thought of all the people

that touched my life with love.

Many are names remembered

and many sadly names that have been forgotten.

To each of you I render my love

and eternal appreciation for sharing

a part of yourselves with me.

Many of you I will never see again in this life.

Many of you have passed from this life.

We shall all met again

in God’s Love in our forever time together.

Cocoons for a short flicker of light

before unfolding our wings in eternal flight.

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“I Will Never Be Loved Like That Again” copyright 2011 John J. Rigo, upcoming book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”

Posted in Texas' Poetry, upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy", tagged A love poem by a McKinney Texas poet, A new poem by international poet John J. Rigo, A New Poem by McKinney Poet John J. Rigo, A published poet who has won the Collin County Texas Poetry Award, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', Poems for Men, Poetry, texas poetry, Top 200 poets internationally in Who's Who on February 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The realization brought a choking to my throat.

My eyes swelled in tears.

The realization came to me fully

that I will never be loved like that again.

The youthful memory of having a woman look at me like that again.

The reflection of a hero in her eyes.

Reflected also in the shining armor of a knight.

Ah sweet memories

if only the taste of those kisses

could return again,

would I know again

the joy of love.

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“Passion” (Revised) copyright 2005 John J. Rigo “Roses Amidst Thorns”

Posted in Selection from "Roses Amidst Thorns" published in 2005, tagged a binding of hearts, A love poem by a McKinney Texas poet, A McKinney Poet, A published poet who has won the Collin County Texas Poetry Award, A Valentine Poem by a Texas' Poet, Another Pre-Valentine Poem for my friends at Cedar Creek Lake in Texas, Another Pre-Valentine poem from McKinney Texas' Poet John J; Rigo, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', Top 200 poets internationally in Who's Who, Winner of the Collin County Poetry Award on February 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Is not passion

part of being human

part of the eternal of all of us?

Burn on

those ancient memories of love

never lost

but remembered

in the heat of the mind

felt in the heart

living in the soul.

Let me live

knowing that once

or many times

was I truly loved.

Beyond all of this

to where there is a place

special to only us.

A place that my hand never feels alone.

My breast never aches for your touch.

My loins never feel the cold of night.

In that love that binds us

forever held in each other’s arms.

Through this time

forever in our one love

beyond end

forever to be always

you and me.

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"Sometimes It Pays To Count Your Blessings" (Revised) copyright 2009 John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book "Passion Amidst Apathy"

Posted in upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy", tagged A McKinney Poets' charity programs, A McKinney Texas poet looks back, A non-profit fund raising opportunity for the Collin County area of Texas, A Published McKinney Texas Poet, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', profits from poetry books to assist the "homeless cause" in Collin County Texas, Winner of the Collin County Poetry Award on February 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Sometimes it pays to look back on our lives.

In so doing

we can then take time

to count our blessings.

Today after a run to our local post office

I decided to detour to my old home within

a few miles of my completed task.

The house is now an old frame

which was terribly run down.

It was built in the early 1900’s.

I remember the day well

moving into that house

that I freshly painted

as a newly married young man

of twenty-eight.

With my new bride came three step-children

ages six, eight and going on ten; two boys and a girl.

I had no previous experience as a Father.

My new wife was a secretary for a local construction company.

I had just started as a salesman for a local Ford dealership in town.

My average paycheck in 1970 was under four hundred a month.

The house was just off College street in McKinney, Texas.

We financed $6,5oo on the purchase of that home.

Five people in a three small bedroom room home

with the grand total

of one bathroom.

Since those days and our divorce almost fourteen years latter

shortly after the graduation of my step-daughter from Baylor College

with a Master’s degree in Music

much water has passed

under that olde’ bridge.

Today, that step-daughter is dead

killed by a hit and run driver.

The oldest boy I never did hear from again

after his graduation from North Texas.

I recently came across his picture on the net.

It seemed from the picture he had lost most of his good looks.

Age 50 is now facing him after living a loser’s life.

Rumor has it that his wife divorced him

within a few years of their marriage.

As to the youngest one

who today should be in his mid forties

perhaps is currently in Huntsville prison.

He is gay and is kept from other prisoners

seems he is HIV positive.

Today as a senior

I now look at my bride of almost twenty years

grow more beautiful in my eyes each day.

I count each day

the many blessings that have come to me

since those days

almost forty years ago.

I am reminded today

in a bill that came in the mail today

a monthly bill to keep the lawn

at my second home on the lake

is more than the commissions I drew

as a car salesman back in those days.

God is great.

My blessings are beyond every dream

I have ever held.

Thank you Lord

for this day

and the life you have rendered me

A life that came to me

after I finally gave my life to you

almost thirty years ago.

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"I Have Never Gotten Comfortable With Death" (Revised) copyright 2009 John J. Rigo, upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy"

Posted in upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy", tagged A non-profit fund raising opportunity for the Collin County area of Texas, A Published McKinney Texas Poet, A published poet who has won the Collin County Texas Poetry Award, A spiritual poem from a McKinney Texas poet, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', I never got comfortable with Death, McKinney Texas home of a local international poet, McKinney Texas' Own International Poet, Profits for "Homeless charities" in McKinney Texas, Remembering a Mate Who Passed Away this Christmas Year of 2011, Winner of the Collin County Poetry Award, Winning Poet of the Collin County Texas Poetry Contest on February 8, 2012| 1 Comment »

My mind still does not accept they are gone from this world.

I find myself many a time reaching for a phone

to call them.

It is a select group

these souls that were a part of my life.

Some are friends

that cannot ever be replaced

in the deep meaning of their unselfish love of me.

Others were my parents

who I never really knew as people.

There was the apple of my eye,

my step-daughter of many years.

Truly the only daughter

I ever knew in my life.

There were others

that I would have liked to have known better

they are now gone

without any notice from my life.

At times I find them in my thoughts

mind speaking with them about different things

reaching and seeking unresponsive council from now

an unfamilar place in my heart.

I know they are not really gone

they are just in a different place than me

a place that beckons me as my own death comes closer each day.

You see I never have gotten comfortable with Death.

So my dear friends

my dearest of loved ones

make a place for me.

A place where again

we can laugh and love

and talk about

all that is around us

each day of the eternity before us.

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“The Pastor’s Hands Trembled” copyright 2010 John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”

Posted in upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy", tagged A broken heart by mckinney poet john j rigo, A McKinney Poet, A McKinney Texas' newest poetry work, A Published McKinney Texas Poet, A published poet who has won the Collin County Texas Poetry Award, Are Physical Churches symbols of the Ego's of their Pastors?, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', Dishonesty revealed in Trembling hands., The Falsehoods of a Pastor, Winning Poet of the Collin County Texas Poetry Contest on January 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

To all it seemed all was well with the Pastor.

Within his heart he knew the mask he worn was false

for his heart was false in his represented Love of Jesus.

He had known this for a very long time.

His Father was a preacher and he carried the burden

of a preacher’s son.

He knew deep within his own soul

he was not worthy of walking in the sandals of Jesus.

He knew of many he had hurt with the evil that lurked

in his own heart.

Yet he always felt too important to admit his wrongs.

He noticed it this morning upon awakening.

His hands were trembling.

As the day passed on

the trembling became worse.

He now knew that his trembling hands

would never again

be able to hold

upon his death

the keys to heaven.

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“We Are Proud To Announce, we are a Top Editors’ Choice” copyright 2012 John J. Rigo, Publisher and Author

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"An Unnamed Magic" copyright 2009 John J. Rigo, upcoming book, "Passion Amidst Apathy"

Posted in upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy", tagged A McKinney Poets' charity programs, A published poet who has won the Collin County Texas Poetry Award, Author of "Amist Series of Poetry Books', Winner of the Collin County Poetry Award on January 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Within each of us,

lies an unnamed magic.

We are like shining mirror,

reflecting the beauty,

the eternal power of creation,

of our Lord and God.

We are His perfection,

in His creation.

Our Lord’s every joy

abounds in us.

Have faith and believe.

The joy and wonder,

of our eternities,

lies before us,

in the wonder of His work.

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Posts Tagged ‘Author of “Amist Series of Poetry Books’’

“There Is A Whole Lot of Fear Out There” Revised, copyright 2010 John J. Rigo, upcoming book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”

"The Eternal Kiss" John J. Rigo copyright 2005 "Roses Amidst Thorns"

"Reunion" Copyright 2008 John J. Rigo upcoming poetry book "Passion Amidst Apathy"

“I Will Never Be Loved Like That Again” copyright 2011 John J. Rigo, upcoming book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”

“Passion” (Revised) copyright 2005 John J. Rigo “Roses Amidst Thorns”

"Sometimes It Pays To Count Your Blessings" (Revised) copyright 2009 John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book "Passion Amidst Apathy"

"I Have Never Gotten Comfortable With Death" (Revised) copyright 2009 John J. Rigo, upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy"

“The Pastor’s Hands Trembled” copyright 2010 John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”

To all it seemed all was well with the Pastor.

Within his heart he knew the mask he worn was false

for his heart was false in his represented Love of Jesus.

He had known this for a very long time.

His Father was a preacher and he carried the burden

of a preacher’s son.

He knew deep within his own soul

he was not worthy of walking in the sandals of Jesus.

He knew of many he had hurt with the evil that lurked

in his own heart.

Yet he always felt too important to admit his wrongs.

He noticed it this morning upon awakening.

His hands were trembling.

As the day passed on

the trembling became worse.

He now knew that his trembling hands

would never again

be able to hold

upon his death

the keys to heaven.

“We Are Proud To Announce, we are a Top Editors’ Choice” copyright 2012 John J. Rigo, Publisher and Author

"An Unnamed Magic" copyright 2009 John J. Rigo, upcoming book, "Passion Amidst Apathy"

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To all it seemed all was well with the Pastor.

Within his heart he knew the mask he worn was false

for his heart was false in his represented Love of Jesus.

He had known this for a very long time.

His Father was a preacher and he carried the burden

of a preacher’s son.

He knew deep within his own soul

he was not worthy of walking in the sandals of Jesus.

He knew of many he had hurt with the evil that lurked

in his own heart.

Yet he always felt too important to admit his wrongs.

He noticed it this morning upon awakening.

His hands were trembling.

As the day passed on

the trembling became worse.

He now knew that his trembling hands

would never again

be able to hold

upon his death

the keys to heaven.

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