Our Featured Poet is
Rich Tassinari
Birth Place
Massachusetts
Age Category
61-70
Birth month and day
May 4
Education
College Graduate
Occupation
Retired
Hobbies
reading, writing, wordworking, painting
Marital status
Married
Children/grandchildren
4 daughters/ 8grandchildren
Published works
Nothing, but compiling poems now for, perhaps, a book someday.
Volunteer work
Not at the moment, but much in the past.
Professional or Philanthropic associations (including religious affiliation)
Raised Roman Catholic, but basically a Christian not affiliated with any denomination. Currently hold church service regularly at home with my wife and any other family members (usually two visiting grandkids) who are present on Sunday.
Poetry writing experience
Started at about age 15 as a school assignment. Stopped at about age 20 and picked up writing again at age 56.
State or country in which the poet resides
CA
Testimony of saving faith for Christians only
I attended parochial elementary school, was an altar boy for 7 years, spent a lot of time at, in, and around the church. I can't pick out one day when I asked Jesus to enter into my heart, but there have been many days of asking Him in, putting Him out, and letting Him back in again. Fortunately, when one opens the door for Him, He is there and willing. When He enters, love and peace enter with Him. So, as I mature, I cling to Him more. My bit of testimony is to express that part of Him in me through poetry and prayer for those in need.
About the Poet
Husband, father, grandfather, and each title is my joy. As a youth, poetry was a means to express the inexpressable. I was attracted to (and still am) the beauty and brevity of verse. All flows out from God, and like a proper prayer, can flow back.
Poems by Rich Tassinari
- 115 Calhoun Street
- A Blessing
- A Bold Declaration
- A Changed Heart
- A Christmas Poem
- A Death That Led to Birth
- A Disciple
- A Fairer Day
- A Garden
- A Gift from God
- A Home for Jesus
- A Hunger Satisfied
- A King Still Yet a Man
- A Kinship
- A Newer Year
- A Poem Will
- A Proper Place
- A Senseless Suffering
- A Short Conversation
- A Soul On Holy Saturday
- A Soul Restored
- Abraham
- Absalom
- Accidental Pregnancy
- Advent
- Advent 3
- After Bulb Planting
- After Darkness Has Its Time
- After the Storm
- Against the Flow
- An Anniversay Poem
- An Epiphany
- And So I Taste
- Arms Outstretched
- Arriving Home
- Ask and You Shall Receive
- At Marina Beach
- At Pie and Tea
- At the Archery Range
- At Wine Tasting
- Autumn
- Autumn Change
- Autumn Leaf
- Autumn Sanctuary
- Back From Emmaus
- Balaam and His Donkey
- Before the Dust
- Beneath Manbij
- Blessed Are the Meek
- Blessed Are the Merciful
- Blessed Are the Peacemakers
- Blessed Are the Poor
- Blessed Are They Who Hunger and Thi
- Blessed Are They Who Mourn
- Blessed Are Those Persecuted for Ri
- Blessed Is the Heart That's Pure
- Blossom in a Drought
- Brother's Keeper
- Brought from Above
- By the Tuolumne
- Cain
- Candlemas Day
- Change of Inner Hue
- Change of View
- Changing of the Leaves
- Chasing Herself
- Christmas Birth
- Christmas Dream
- Christmas Hope
- Christmas Morn
- Christmas Scenes
- Chrysanthemums
- Columbia Independence Day Parade
- Come Eat
- Counting Sheep
- Crucified
- Daniel and the Lion's Den
- David and Bathsheba
- David and Goliath
- David the Psalmist
- Deficits on Earth
- Dionysius Hears Paul at the Areopag
- Easter Day
- Elijah the Tishbite
- Eternity in Temporary Frame
- Faith
- Faith Now Gets the Call
- Fatal Illness
- Fidelity
- First Day at School
- Flames upon the Water
- For They Shall Be Filled
- Forever at Day's End
- Forever's Room
- Forgiveness in the Night
- Four Haiku
- Gideon
- Give Her Another
- Go Quickly
- God Only Knows
- Golden Days
- Golden Moon
- Good News of a Great Joy
- Gravitate
- Great Love
- Hallelujah for the Rain
- Hallows Eve
- He Is Born and All Is Well
- Heaven's Bright Star
- His Love Remains
- His Yoke Is Easy And His Burden Lig
- Holy Gifts
- Home
- Home for Christmas
- Hope Lives When I Have You
- How Is My Spirit Dressed?
- I Turn To You, My Lord
- I Who Speak to You Am He
- If Not for What He Says
- If What Mattered More
- In Church on Good Friday
- In Harbor Fog
- In the Beginning
- It Was Foretold
- It's Morning
- Jacob's Ladder
- Jonah
- Joseph Marries
- Judge Grants Postponement
- Jump Out Cake
- Keep Me Small
- King of Kings
- Late August Night
- Lazarus
- Let Go and Haul
- Life Renews
- Lifted to Him Sing
- Light and Heat Abide
- Like a Son Returning Home
- Love
- Love
- Lying in a Manger
- Mary and Joseph Journey to Bethlehe
- Morn's First Two Hues
- Morning Glory
- Morning Hues on Houses
- Morning's Oriole
- Moses before the Mission
- Moses Begins His Mission
- Moses on His Mission
- My Bible
- My Boxes
- My Evergreen
- My God Is Like a Gentle Rain
- Naomi and Ruth
- New Life on Easter Day
- New Salem
- Nicodemus
- Night's End
- Noah
- Not Held by Nails
- October Day Haiku
- Oh Blessed Blindness
- Oh Men of Little Faith
- Old Man and His Dog
- On Seeing Deer in a Mist at Dusk
- Onesimus
- Our Newborn King
- Palm Sunday
- Paradise Regained
- Paul and Silas Sing Praises in Jail
- Paul Looks Back on Stephen
- Penny and the Autumn Leaves
- Perfect Imperfections
- Poems
- Pools and Eddies
- Power to Become the Sons of God
- Prayer
- Prayferul Calls
- Promises
- Prophets
- Prowler in the Temple
- Reaching Hands
- Reap What He Has Sown
- Reborn in the Light
- Restoration
- Restore Me Back Where I Belong
- Retired? What Will You Do?
- Risen from the Tomb
- Rowing Away From
- Running With the Big Cats Now
- Rush Hour
- Saint Thomas
- September Changes
- September Once Again Is Born
- Sermon on the Mount
- Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-Nego
- Simeon
- Sleep
- Something in Her Chases Light
- Spring
- Spring Pageant
- St. Anthony the Abbot
- Susanna
- Sweet Burden
- Sweet Mercy
- Take...Drink...Eat
- Technical Issues
- Tell Me, Autumn, How'd You Fix
- Temptation in the Desert
- Thanks Giving
- Thanksgiving
- The Annointing
- The Barren Gave Birth
- The Call of the Leaves
- The Castaway
- The Cat Goes Out
- The Cat That Once Was Feral
- The Centurian
- The Dance
- The Donkey I Retrieved
- The Door
- The Dream
- The Earth Holds Firmly, First the R
- The Flesh and the Spirit
- The Ghost Tree
- The Inheritance
- The Journey
- The Journey of St Paul
- The Little House Wren
- The Lone Cypress
- The Magi
- The Merry Go Around
- The New Equality
- The Obituary
- The Path of Vengeance
- The Prayer
- The Scrub Jay
- The Shepherds
- The Sign of the Cross
- The Sleepless Demon
- The Spirit Blows Where It Pleases
- The Turtle
- The Unclean Woman
- The Weight of Margaret Clitherow
- The Wisdom of Solomon
- The Written Word
- The Young Sweet Gum
- Three Ravens at Dawn
- Three Sojourners
- Time for Sunday's Guest
- Today if You Shall Hear His Voice
- Tower of Self-Esteem
- Transfiguration
- Translucent Autumn
- Tree on a Hill
- Tri-Unity
- True and Straight
- Tuolumne River Morning
- Two Friends of Lazarus
- Two Haiku
- Two Mockingbirds in Winter
- Waiting
- Water Hyacinth
- Weeds and Flowers
- What Is the Worth of Man
- When Doing Is a Heavy Chore
- When I Hear a Sparrow Sing
- Winter Peace
- Within a Week
- Words In Church
- Yoke and Burden
- Your Journey Mends
- Your Voice
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