Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Devotion

  • now

    what in life amounts to enough when the flesh craves more and tries to strangle spiritual sensibility and coax breath from a well intentioned heart? how do I know when it is time to fully engross all aspects of my life into the eternal atmosphere Who waits and watches? let me turn to rising mist and Read more

  • consider time

    “But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, in the acceptable time” Psalm 69:13 NKJV Where are you, days gone by? I consider the sun’s rise once again onto fog shrouded oceans of wondering eyes peering up to the heavens hoping and praying that enigmatic Time will tell his story and all Read more

  • still life in elixir

    I dreamed about a December morn When life was drawn and cold forlorn Doubting pleasure’s full embrace Somber slumber more selfish pace. Ice and frost did slow my gait Longer evenings embodied fate The sun slipped so fast away Over horizon for another’s day. The sorrow watching meted moments I totter now upon deciding fence. Read more

  • Walk in Me

    “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him” Colossians 2:6 KJV Walk in Me Over valleys of streams And mossy lea ever soft Receiving footsteps Caressing weariness Bidding confidence Harboring pale sunlight Though moor and fen-misted Pleasant places where sweet Melodies linger upon the breeze. Walk in Me Then onto Read more

  • firefly

    dark and frail gray hanging on to a bit of white lest a black demise. overcast skies absorbing what sunlight it can waiting for night and equanimity of hue. pinpoint light hidden well within my soul shrouded in clouds screams to be heard playing with the thought that even a firefly can be a lantern Read more