Scripture
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O Lord bless my soul Remove the blight That casts a shadow Over the purest white Linen of a spring lamb. O Light gaze anew Dissolve the tepid Frivolous dark nature Of temporary forgetfulness to Renew yet again. O Love blossom Make my heart alive, refreshed Fruitfully stamped With virtuous approval My hand in Yours. Read more
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“O hardened heart!” cries the stone, Alas, failing beauty, the flowers bemoan. Green to brown, grasses sad fanfare, Breeze entwined in thistle, cool respite rare. For man alone awaits those days – “The new times, better times”, he vacantly prays. Impatiently wringing, hands gnarly worn. Overtly succumbed, contrived and forlorn. New softening light eases the Read more
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no longer a memory, but an ethereal gesture or a heavenly breeze and a wisp of a surreal exhale – old and new, beginning and ending – permanently a part of all things made new from the blemished and the famished to lucidly pure crystalline stone through which to see the face of our Lord. Read more
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Embrace the sweetness of sorrow to show a tender side or regale an outburst of laughter pretentious cover, vulnerability deride. Embrace the moments of melancholy those times of in-between hidden, only shall churn within rather than certain demeanor seen. Embrace the secrets of sadness for depth is surely sought and brazen outward countenance vanity surely Read more
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“He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked” 1 John 2:6 (KJV) I peer inside from the outside – It is cold out here and there is a fast-closing distance between us. There within seen are familiar comforts I know, Peaceful and pleasant is the unspoken invitation for Read more
Rick Stassi Poetry 