Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Devotion

  • remembering now

    with time’s steadfast passing on river’s gentle meander as melodies gently sway with mesmerizing candor. my heart is completing in continuing peace more about now than end each moment’s gentle release. this soul be bold knowing the nature of time in constant reminder mild countenance sublime. and lay my head down upon dreams passing above Read more

  •  Fade

    Originally posted on Rick Stassi Poetry: Artist: Me Faded are midnight glances back upon yesterday’s moments. Time, diligently and cruelly, selfishly tries to drive my focus to the future to leave a painful moment behind to feed time’s avarice and draw me reluctantly into the past. I don’t believe in time, as such, anymore, as a… Read more

  •  Fade

    Faded are midnight glances back upon yesterday’s moments. Time, diligently and cruelly, selfishly tries to drive my focus to the future to leave a painful moment behind to feed time’s avarice and draw me reluctantly into the past. I don’t believe in time, as such, anymore, as a temporal moment of trifling pain is cast away, Read more

  • how beautiful

    how beautiful is this day with fragrant fields harboring dew captured on tiny leaves replenishing and nourishing how sweet the melody rising and discordant sounds failing to resonant streams knit note by note falling upon my wanting ears awaken with beautiful smile as sadness is forgotten and hope transitions from things wrought yesterday to trust Read more

  • born all over again 

    the sun prepares quickly in the predawn unable to stop perpetual motion from slowly beginning to displace darkness where fear and anxiety of unknowns have held sway only now to yield to hope and things born all over again. poppies in their awakening stretch to heaven along with a dove and meadowlark first, along with Read more