a day
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I sigh in measured moments waiting to embrace a sacred smile and piercing guardian eyes bringing blue skies to overcome the gray emptiness settling over a barren soul. The stillness of impending rain before air liquefies in bursts of hope and I know the rain on autumn’s eve above the cedar’s reach in rising hope… Read more
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In God alone, I strive to place my eyes where my heart shall soon follow. Only in my solitude shall I truly be sound in judgment as focus thus waxes and lucidity pervades. I see my soul, now, as He has always seen and all too soon I shall emanate joy. (c) 2017 rickstassi Read more
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In the evening of these waning days, my heart reaches out to gather times past. Thoughts are obsessed with memory elixirs easing stinging effects of this breath. Mind not to rest in haunting enemies of the past. Rather, delight in love then and now. As I hold onto the light that has nurtured me this… Read more
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O that I should prosper if the music stops. It is the quiet angst of a failing melody. The dove’s cry wanes as anxious sun rises procuring new thoughts onto old frames. I bid farewell to summer days as all too much of my elan languishes on apathetic and stale warm winds soon to cede… Read more
Rick Stassi Poetry 