Art is the best meditation therapy. This includes playing music, painting, poetry and whatever else prompts us to look within to a heart that is constantly replenished by God.
(c) 2022 Rick Stassi
Current Artwork
First Love
I can’t explain,
These times uncared-for
With heart toward God
Still not yet bared.
I know from where,
Descends a dove.
To hasten me back,
To my first love.
Rick Stassi 2022
Perfect Love
Do I really
float upon
whimsical seas?
Rudderless,
hopeless,
in random breeze.
Or does hope
arrive on
descended dove.
To lead,
to nurture,
with perfect love.
(C) 2021 Rick Stassi
youth
a whisper unfurls
in delicate green,
as innocence arises
in hopeful serene.
give to the world
and take as you might,
we are the better
in your wandering plight.
(C) 2022 Rick J Stassi
dreams
peering deep inside my soul,
fearless abyss awaits
my curious and peering eyes.
wandering
in the solitude of
darkness,
a black hole absorbs
light and childhood frivolity
holding onto the last glimpse
of innocence.
Why can I not see in to what
secretly peers out of the void?
I lost so many parts of my self
without a sound.
without knowing,
the dull pain of sadness
swallows carefree levity and
forgotten memories.
Holding sway, is
the stagnate air
surrounding
lost dreams I never knew
I had.
(c) 2021 Rick Stassi
Pensive
Springing, seeping,
waters flow.
Lithely, floating,
Autumn glow.
Waxing, moaning,
harvest sky.
Closing eyes,
sorrowful cry.
(c) 2021 Rick Stassi
My Father’s Love
Clinging on to
wings of grief.
Fading, falling,
Autumn Leaf.
If I should bear a trifle more,
I fear I’d burst
to crystalline hoar.
Longing outward to
guardian gaze,
on deeper waters
soon to laze
to know then
as already known,
in my Father’s love
I’m never alone.
(c) 2021 Rick Stassi
abide
I wish I was whole again
Cast darkness aside,
To see myself clearly,
In Your arms, abide.
(C) 2021 Rick Stassi
A treatise on the world
How desperate these times
of angst and anger.
Of self-promotion
and egocentric reason.
I believe in God.
The one absolute,
and single point
of overarching redemption.
I believe the continual
creep of relativistic thought
and truth dilution
cannot dissolve
this absolute.
I believe in love
from a single point origin
where there are no conditions
and selfless focus holds sway.
I believe judgment is veiled with
a self-serving love –
a deception which is steeped
in the minds
of an unreasonable and
uncaring world.
Rick Stassi
copyright 2021
Prayer for Humility
Struggling to give up
The predominance of self-centeredness.
The instinct for self-preservation,
Is surpassed by the need to look outward
In empathetic realization
That we as a whole are better
When we consider God,
And others,
Before ourselves.
Rick Stassi
Copyright 2021
Jesus, Light of the World 