I long for silence
In my soul
Succumbed to unquiet
Words from God
To correct my path
To make me whole.
2019 Rick Stassi
blue eyes
calming warmth
alights upon my heart
as wintry chill fades away
dissipated by your blue eyes
both of guardian and child –
one the author of love
the other the deliverer
in godly obedience.
…for Dana
2019 Rick Stassi
slumber
Mary Cassatt “The Child’s Caress”
Autumn prepares slumber
For Summer’s final despair and
Quiet transition
From optimism to the
Reality of shorter days.
(c) 2011 – 2019 Rick Stassi
Prayer
Within the core of my humble heart,
Desiring to be set apart.
When pure white dove does alight,
Born of God’s one true light.
(c) 2011-2019 rick stassi
in God’s arms
Childe Hassam
the slowness of breath
in longest days,
protects and restores;
heart subtly seeks,
in beautiful ways.
alas dying leaf
signaling change,
reminds in colors;
texture of old,
my limited range
the sureness of light
in bathing love,
reassembles hope;
sepia dreams pass,
in arms from Above.
temporal defeat
Cezanne
forever in the lens of days
the amber veil soon decays.
we’ll see ourselves in living eyes
penetration of temporal disguise.
God knows our pure heartbeat
He imparts in us worldly defeat.
rick j stassi
(c) 2011-2019
so far away
(c) Loriann Signori
so far, my God , so far away,
your closeness recedes from yesterday.
but, alas, as much as I feel spurned,
I am certain, now, my back is turned.
(c) 2011-2019 rick j stassi
