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"One Night" copyright 2005 John J. Rigo "Rainbows Amidst Storms"
Posted in "Rainbows Amidst Storms" Second Published Book, A Christmas Poem by John J. Rigo, Winner of Collin County Texas Poetry Award, tagged Arts, Child Jesus, Christmas, Commentary (magazine), God, Jesus, Lord, Poetry, Shepherd, Texas, Wind, WordPress on December 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »
“Re-Run” copyright 2012 John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”
Posted in Passion Never Dies, Remembering the Passion of Youth, Silver-headed men never Die, tagged Airline, Cedar Creek Lake in East Texas, Christmas, God, Lord, Military discharge, Passion, Poem, Poetry, relationships, Texas, United States, Wisdom and Youth on December 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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“Relative” copyright 2012 John J. Rigo, upcoming poetry book, “Passion Amidst Apathy”
Posted in Do we have souls?, The Gift of Our Souls, tagged Christmas, Forgiveness, Google Image, Holiday, Jesus, Savannah Georgia, Texas on December 23, 2013| 2 Comments »
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"The Magic Christmas Bells of Florence Street" copyright 2008 John J. Rigo, upcoming book, "Passion Amidst Apathy"
Posted in upcoming book "Passion Amidst Apathy", tagged Christianity, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Dallas, Holiday, Religion and Spirituality, Stepfamily, Texas on December 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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"One Night" copyright 2005 John J. Rigo "Rainbows Amidst Storms"
Posted in "Rainbows Amidst Storms" Second Published Book, A Christmas Poem by John J. Rigo, Winner of Collin County Texas Poetry Award, tagged Arts, Barack Obama, Child Jesus, Christmas, Commentary (magazine), God, Jesus, Lord, Poetry, Texas, Wind, WordPress on December 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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"I Remember Fondly Christmas’ Past" copyright 2005 by John J. Rigo, selection from "Rainbows Amidst Storms"
Posted in A Remembrance of Christmas by John J. Rigo, christmas Poems by John J. Rigo, dojinvest18443tracking, Selection from "Roses Amidst Thorns" published in 2005, tagged Child Jesus, Christmas, cyber_unit_henderson_county, Holiday, Jesus, Religion and Spirituality, Steel, Texas, Toy on December 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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(The little boy’s story in the poem is true and a time from my own past.) This Christmas Season of 2013, I was thinking of my Father. This poem mentions him several times. I remember how dirty he was when he came home from work when I was a little boy. My Father was an iron and steel worker. After he came home and took a bath, my Mother would then attempt to clean the ring out of the bathtub from his bath. Many times with close to a half hour of scrubbing, she still could not get it out. In those days, my Father made about a hundred dollars a week. He worked very hard for that money.
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I remember fondly Christmas’ past our first tree alive with lights before it caught fire later that week. I remember fondly the Christmas with toys. Never before had my brother and I received toys. How angry my Father became when we broke several toys after a few hours of play. It was my Father’s first Christmas bonus as a steel worker. He spent that bonus on toys for us that Christmas. He thought those toys would never break. I remember fondly a special Christmas as a kid when no money was available whatsoever for toys. We found a punch-out cardboard castle in a department store window. One dollar and ninety-eight cents was the price of that castle. My young brother and I played with it for days. A punch-out castle was the best toy we ever had. I remember fondly Christmas past, acting in the church Christmas pageant. I was a little child with the beard of a prophet shaking in a spotlight in the church play. It snowed that night. My best friend and I asked permission to keep wearing the beards. A most beautiful snow floated through the air as we walked home together. The dirty streets of the city were made clean and white with heavy, swirling snow flakes. We sang church carols walking home our arms around each other’s shoulder. How close to baby Jesus we were back then. I remember fondly Christmas’ past when life seemed so much simpler. Joys more easily shared with laughter much deeper than now. Still I thank God that I had those Christmas’ past even to this special day of a new Christmas. Another December which will also will soon be gone into the misty memory of another Christmas’ past.“Death of a Home” copyright 2005 John J. Rigo, published poetry book, “Roses Amidst Thorns”
Posted in What "Tough Love" is all About., tagged Arts, Christmas, Drug overdose, God, marriage, Online Writing, Poetry, relationships, Stepfamily, Texas on December 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
“The results of not practicing Tough Love”
Earlier in my life in a previous marriage I became a step-father to three children. When I married their Mother, the youngest boy was age six named _ _ _ _ _. _ _ _ _ _ _ was both a druggie, thief and mentally unbalanced. I suspect the mental problems came from his Father at his own birth since his real Father died of a drug overdose. The boy for fourteen years of that marriage brought me nothing but pain and grief each day of that marriage. When it came to choosing between me or him by now my ex-wife of more than thirty years ago, she choose him. He destroyed her life both from a mental point of view beside a financial one. Today my ex lives in the same now broken down home because of this boy who today in his late forties has been in and out of prison and more than likely is living with her. His life and her life are a great example of what “Tough Love” and its lack of on her part, is all about. The following poem is on the first page of my first published poetry book.
The house was saddened. Though occupied it appeared not. The uncut hedge nearest the street rose to a height of many feet. The brushes around the house had not been trimmed in close to a year. Amidst peeling paint and wild dandelions in the yard was a yearning for love which the house received year’s past. Inside the home pale and yellowed walls reflected the internal sickness that destroyed the love of its adult inhabitants. A sickness born of a young mind bounded by the disciplines of evil in his youth. Torn wallpaper marked the first surrender of this youth’s mother to a childish whim in year’s past. Pride departed now shown in the dishes and pots piled on the kitchen sink with crusted leftovers from last week. The curtains were partly open from a previous night not for the sun of day but a beacon to unwelcomed intruders of night by the youth of the house. The smell of evil engulfed the house. A pungent sickly odor exhaled by the youth of the house which brought the gaze of forgetfulness to the point of nowhere. He sat proudly overseeing his domain. His position secure to sleep to play to reach new highs in his world of bright lights and swirling thoughts. He had won. He now had his mother his protector and provider all to himself. The man of the house which became no one departed with his things. The youth laughed and laughed in sheer joy at his victory.
“A Prayer To Dispel Evil” copyright 2010 Revised John J. Rigo, upcoming “Passion Amidst Apathy”
Posted in Begone Oh Evil One, Behold Evil One The Lord Stands at my Door, I know who you are you are named evil in my prayers, tagged Christianity, Christmas, Games, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Opposing Views, Prayer to Jesus and St. Michael, Religion and Spirituality on December 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
“The Lord Defeats my Enemies Thru Michael who brings Death and Destruction to their doors…..Bless the Lord’s name, be in awe in the power of his angel.”
"Friends of a Lifetime" copyright 2005 John J. Rigo "Rainbows Amidst Storms"
Posted in "Rainbows Amidst Storms" Second Published Book, Friends of a Lifetime by John J. Rigo, tagged Christmas, Commentary (magazine), Health, IBM, Jesus, Philosophy, relationships, Texas on December 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »
With the passing of time
I have come to realize that there are truly
spaces that are never filled
by the loss of friends who were very personal
to my mind and heart.
Through the years
do the memories of Cliff and Tom
constantly come to my mind.
Never are they dead in my heart.
I see each of them
special in their concern for me
as the friends they were to me
and yes the love they rendered to me.
Have they been replaced in the void left by their absence?
No one has accomplished that.
Cliff was the short, large man from the deep South
always with a tale of lesson and advice not wanted
but when given
seemed well placed.
He spoke of home and craw-fish
his Mother and his victories in life
never of his losses.
You knew he was special
a special person to know.
The same stories he related never got old
just deeper in meaning.
The straight-laced
IBM type of guy was Tom.
He seemed to have found victories too early in his life
burning, dying as a shooting star.
An anger was present about him that could never be explained.
Tom loved a good meal and good drinks.
Save the waiter or waitress who spoke too much while serving!
He was there to savor the moment
should it be his last.
As Tom’s life was coming to an end
he maintained his pride to the last minute in a VA hospital
wearing a blue blazer that no longer fit;
no one cared about his past.
I miss Tom’s advice to me,
his laughter at my watch
that he thought was such a great sales job
because I had to push a button
to tell time.
His loud laughter rang in the night
raising high his special drink
to wish me and all
the best of life.
I miss both of these men.
They were the special friends of a lifetime
never to be replaced.
They are in my heart each day
with the warmest of love to my dearest friends
Cliff and Tom.
Whenever you both may be
in the great wonder of it all
I am one person
who misses you both
oh……….. ever so much.
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“A Christmas Message to my WordPress Family” copyright 2013 John J. Rigo, Texas’ Commentator and Published Poet
Posted in 45000 hits as of Christmas Day on Texas' Poetry Site, A Christmas Message to WordPress Family from John and Linda Stewart-Rigo, tagged 45000 hits on Texas Poetry site, A Christmas Message to WordPress Family, Christmas, Commentary (magazine), Holiday, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Lord, Silver Star, Texas, WordPress on December 24, 2013| 1 Comment »
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Silver Star Farm and Ranch of Texas
It is here, Christmas Day, another counting of our lives on this earth. Over the last year my WordPress family of now a little over 300 followers, and now at 45,000 hits as of today, December 25th, 2013, have become more important in my life, than ever. Within that select group is another special group of individuals, that I wish where with me this day, sitting at our dining room table this Christmas afternoon.
To each of you I render a special hug, and a heartfelt thanks for the many sharings via comments on my poetry work and personal view comments. When the quality of your friends become many steps above the folks that you call you friend that are your reality friends, one truly knows then, they found the right place to be. That place for me in my heart, is with my WordPress Family. Blessings and peace to each of you in your future and our eternal lives together, with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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