Vistoetry

Poetry by Anthony Rivisto

[iamvisto]

Into the depths

I feel led to the depths Anchor points I forget Learned to resent By what has been pent Rent down from the spent Moment in time Passion and blind interaction Left records now affecting my actions Replaying their sound Relaying things found Like bricks built for fortifying itself I return with Him Who beckons me to go Knowing well and full That He grinds to dust Anything that aims…

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“for it does not cease”

“for it does not cease” To increase Taking ground Unfound in the solo venture We rise high as we go down In adventures with our Mentor In faith we enter To the lair of prayer Where warriors’ wrapped wounds Retract from the tears Divides that aim to hide wholeness Are no longer spared Shalom wreaking havoc on all the cluttered cares Returning to redemption Turning all…

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Finding Tribe

Finding Tribe Revelation‬ ‭7‬:‭9‬-‭10 says “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the…

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At the ready

I rest in Your leading Where I know You have me receiving Hands open and believing My place of trust in You So Lord I pray to be steeping When the pressure is high I’m leaking The deposits You’ve woven in and through For me to share and not spare You always meet me there So I stress that my daily ‘yes’ is what keeps me prepared

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Thoughts of Threshing

Humbling past the mumbling and murmuring His eyes see it all to remind me that His call Surpasses the lavish things that free fall When we release our grasp and let Him re-attach fingers to things Like hearing to sing For us all to witness. He gives it so freely and yet bestows to the kneeling a posture that brings meaning to the melodies and missions No embellishing a position but…

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“I am free.”

Washing over muscle memory,

postures and bent dispositions

Subject to the Word of Truth

Disproving the proof that is held

Gripping tightly

and yet…

Light…. ripping rightly

Living and actively dividing

Providing in lack what was missing in that

Lie

I am free

#iam2022 #newpoetsofimmortality

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Saul’s Armor

I have hurts that have festered

Because of the weight I have worn

To protect myself better

But it has put pressure

On the wounds

Instead of reviving breath

Giving room

It’s nestled in wombs of creativity

Released through the main giving we

Refrain melodies

In membranes of willing speech

With ten-gauge talking

Our walking is fulfilling feats

Amidst the stalking from the Giving Seat

Grace and mercy - naries

Come to bring a hearse to the tarry

And a merk to the fairy tales I tell myself

To take on the next endeavor

That may enable me

To be better

I’m already

Weather - proof

Wired to face

Whatever may choose

To arrive

On that stage

That’s waged

So I choose

A new

Dawn

To take on

What comes

I take it like breath

And run.

#newpoetsofimmortality #februarysbreath2022 #iamvisto #saulsarmor

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Breathe

I suppose I’ve been holding

Retracted at facts

Forgetting the Truth

You always come back

Interrupting despair with impact

Like inhales gasped

Alerting every cell

To awake from slumber

And become a succumber

To His breath

A gift set

That lifts stress

And all that’s impressed

Beyond the unforced rhythms

Returning to the prison of Hope

Where He first spoke.

#newpoetsofimmortality #februarysbreath2022

#prisonersofhope

#zechariah912

#breathe

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Upside down

My crown

Upside down

Is a beard

Dawned by the King

Who went upside down

To bring about

A revolution

#januarysgoodness22 #newpoetsofimmortality

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Here

is where

I embark.

Pulling forth

from this place

where I’ve parked.

Remembering Your grace

and chase

carved.

Deep in my being

beyond the place

of the scars.

And wounds

Your love consumes

to run the grooves

that shun the proof.

You presume

to do

what You

alone can do.

And I’ll

resume

to choose

to trust.

Your ways

unknown to haste

I give You my steps.

All that I have

like breath

is all that I have received.

So I place my feet

with grace to believe

You make ways through every thing

that seems to be

impassible.

So I grab a hold

of the unfazed plan-tiful

pasture like a manifold

lit up with the Man Who holds

every vast spanning full

of His goodness.

There isn’t a limit

other than the ones we surrender

rendered like boot and straps and bloody rags

His fire licks them up

in awe

are those who stand, by

awaiting flights

now arrived

grab your ticket here.

Where fear

is His

and we come

with gifts

of trust

our hearts

as kids

because

He is

our Dad

in love

we lift

our hands

and come

boldly to wholly

behold the holy

throne of grace.

Our resting place

as sons and daughters

like clay in His hands

refreshed in the waters

restored with The Potter

renewed and restructured

here.

#newpoetsofimmortality #januarysgoodness22 #here

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Let’s go

You teach me

not to conform

to the pain,

but to be made new

through You,

I change.

Tears

making way

for healing

an exchange

not found in

the mask

that I wear

on my face.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

Let go.

And know,

and know,

I know.

Let’s go.

#psalm4610 #bestill #letgo #letsgo #januarysgoodness22 #newpoetsofimmortality

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The Walls

The walls have limits

None can reach You

So I call on forgiveness

The one, sweet tool

To pull and prod

And outline

mortar lines

Stepping back

In surrender

This

is my time

#newpoetsofimmortality #januarysgoodness22

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Light Shine Anew

I go into

The wild

Where

Paved paths

Don’t lead

Being led to

the shadows

Not shunned

But drawn

By the One

Who is Light

And yet will go

To the depths

So that we

Can know

His power there

And His closeness

That doesn’t leave

When we venture

Into the paths

Dimly lit

To see

Light

Shine

Anew

#januarysgoodness

#newpoetsofimmortality

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Turn

I write

Even though I might

Have lost it

The thought and feeling

Together

United experience

Of knowing

So it’s slow going

But I’m here floating

Maneuvering in my rowing

Planting and sowing these words

Amidst the growing concerns

I render my yearning

Like a burning coal

Knowing that

in my hands

I can’t handle

But in Yours

It lights candles

Prepared for these moments

Of surrendering my quotients

Every formulaic notion

That denies Your omnipotent

Ability to change me

Turn

#januarysgoodness22 #newpoetsofimmortality #repentance #metanoia #renew #turn

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Meadow

You’re in the meadows

Slowly herding us

Along the rough edges

Swirling through the curling

We arrive at ledges

And slide through the crevice

Made way

Further than

Would’ve guessed

This life

In The Spirit

Surprises all my senses

Logic is dethroned and I am

Made attentive, to Your presence

Again and again, it’s intensive

Not a semester

But a life

An apprentice

Walking with the Journey Man

His eyes my direction

Led without disguise

My pride is rejected

Denied the protection

It hides in deception

But Light is my weapon

And pro/vision

New paradigms of prisms

Manifold Wisdom

For man to hold with Him

I grab the whole mission

With hands that open in

Surrender and embrace

Love brings a change

How subtly it came

#newpoetsofimmortality #januarysgoodness22

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My Friend

When I see 10:10

I am reminded, Lord

That You are also my Friend

And promise me a good and expected end

#januarysgoodness2022 #newpoetsofimmortality #1010 #abundantlife #iamafriendofGod

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2021

Looking back

Recalling each breath

Gasped and retracted

Retracing paths

With laughter and lessons

I gather these treasures

And bask in the measures

Living through this lengthening

My returning brings strengthening

Like gifts waiting from before

Praising all the more

Raising to the One

Thanks

2021

#2021 #newpoetsofimmortality #decembersjoy2021 #yearinreview #lookingbqck #recollect #treasures #miningthedata #gratitude #thankYouJesus #twentytwentyone