Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

a voice

  • overlooking

    Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida How I quarrel with what i need and what I desire. I quickly depart from yesterday with hopes of finding a new light to fill a hole in this temporal mind; overlooking the cry for love and understanding in this eternal soul. (c) 2011-2019 Rick Stassi  Read more

  • Love, so true

    The overwhelming light of tomorrow’s day. When hope is greater than the sum of dreams broken in forgotten time. Optimism wins as half-empty glasses pour out onto surfaces for tepid fate. Give me hope and dreams eternal! Let me abide within arms of comfort and sacred sanctuary. You offer a heart filled with promise anew; Read more

  • In me

    Craving closeness, Resisting watchful eyes. Pushing away The very one Who sees in me That which I  do not. -Rick Read more

  • Spirit

    The sheltering song Of overwhelming love, Alights upon my heart On the wings of a dove. Read more

  • future gaze

    I wonder if I’d found some way, to circumvent those fruitless tries, truly to avoid – by some degree, a pocketful of deceitful lies.   When these questions might’ve been asked, subject seldom was ever raised, but now answers – take life’s past portions and blend with present’s future gaze. Read more