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Giovanni Maria Riccio Tommaso Poem
I hadn’t noticed before now
that her smile was painted on
accented with deep crimson lipstick
her eyes too seemed to gaily laugh
outlined in black to pop out from
her pale languid hanging flesh
a perfect piñata ready to be smashed
what goodies lie within her bloated
face void staring out into the world
I can almost hear the carnival barker
three tries a quarter come now come
one & all come & see the life revealed
while in the shadows lurk the clowns
within the trailer long & winding down
into the pit into the swirl as water rushes
gurgling past boat & sailor at half mast
she poses in front of us bigger than life
scaring heck out of us before doors open
Copyright © Giovanni Maria Riccio Tommaso | Year Posted 2016
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Giovanni Maria Riccio Tommaso Poem
we are created to reside in heaven
we are created to be new creatures
we are created for sainthood
it is our duty to strive to go back home
we are created men & women of God
we are created to be His beloved sons
we are created to believe & know of Him
it is our duty to strive to go back home
we must choose to be good & loving
we must choose to be courageous & strong
we must choose heaven where we belong
it is our duty to strive to go back home
there’s no greater death than being lost in the
whims & whiles of wanton ticklish philosophy
where hearing & reciting are of feigned intellect
it is our duty to strive to go back home
for they change at a moment’s notice these histrionics
reminding us to duty to avoid sin & sham & the flim-flam
let us rise above the natural to the supernatural
it is our duty to strive to go back home
we are called to be other than what we are
we live in a time that is lost to purity
we live in a time that is lost to love
it is our duty to strive to go back home
so many people play at this holiness
so many self deceive to make it all right
only to finally choose insanity as a way out
instead of calling to duty to strive to go back home
Copyright © Giovanni Maria Riccio Tommaso | Year Posted 2020
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Giovanni Maria Riccio Tommaso Poem
motherhood
is the state of being a mother
it is an all loving & all giving
all encompassing concept
of untiring mental physical & spiritual reality
& once a woman understands the concept
& is fortunate to receive & accept this vocation
because she wants to raise a family out of love
she is called upon to love & nurture that family
& to see to it her children are kept from harm
taught how to love & to be loved
educated by example on how to treat others
that they may see how they are to be treated
it is a mother’s duty to see her children become
the best they can be & to strive to be good
to become saints for God for they are flesh & blood
the flesh & blood of their parents in oneness of being
spirits & souls who are who & what they will become
every woman has this potential in spark to motherhood
not every woman is called to actually take up this cross
for it is a lifelong state one of hard work & rational love
for the state of motherhood is permanent & is constant
it is not a state to be toyed with in its truth & sincerity
all children need parents mothers are waiting in love
Copyright © Giovanni Maria Riccio Tommaso | Year Posted 2020
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Giovanni Maria Riccio Tommaso Poem
Lord
grant us
to have freely
the gift
the gift of the grace of faith
& let us not
be so arrogant
as to believe
in our own pride
that we can self-illuminate
our own minds
our own hearts
our own souls
our own strength & courage
by our own spirits
for our souls live
in utter darkness
& cannot receive light
no matter the effort
or the toil expended
for darkness illuminated
by darkness is darker still
O Lord light of the world
light of mankind the human race
O Light of light divine
make us humble in our faith
that we may accept Your gift of faith
freely & without any reservations
abandoning all into Your care & wisdom
unearned graciously received eternally
Copyright © Giovanni Maria Riccio Tommaso | Year Posted 2020
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