Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

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  • forevermore

    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

  • mindfulness

    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

  • changes

    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

  • a ripple

    a ripple carries my solemn thought so far away… pray O distant shore calm my aching heart. I see your smile on the rising sun. I feel your calm on the waxing moon. I hear you call on gentle breeze and I respond. Here I am. (c) rick stassi 2017 Read more

  • Hopeful Fall

    Summer quietly comes and stays exposing most of my restless ways. Apathetic breeze blows without reason; cringing heart decries this season. I wonder if, after all, my life will settle upon hopeful Fall. And wringing hands of sultry ways will cool with sight on cooler days. Peace subsides with downcast eyes as darker days mask… Read more