these times

October 22, 2022 by Rick Stassi you

These times shall occur,

Oft wanted so,

A loving touch

A celestial glow.

Eyes that look

Deep into despair,

To carry the burden,

My heart cannot bear.

What if Adam?

July 17, 2022 by Rick Stassi you

What if when God created Adam

He created all people as one.

Adam is woman,

He is Man,

He is all races,

All identities,

All preferences.

He is all pronouns and

All people that ever would walk

This world.

Can you imagine this

Perspective?

Current Artwork

May 9, 2022 by Rick Stassi you

Art is the best meditation therapy. This includes playing music, painting, poetry and whatever else prompts us to look within to a heart that is constantly replenished by God.

First Love

March 20, 2022 by Rick Stassi you

I can’t explain,

These times uncared-for

With heart toward God

Still not yet bared.

I know from where,

Descends a dove.

To hasten me back,

To my first love.

Rick Stassi 2022

Perfect Love

November 27, 2021 by Rick Stassi you

Do I really

float upon

whimsical seas?

Rudderless,

hopeless,

in random breeze.

Or does hope

arrive on

descended dove.

To lead,

to nurture,

with perfect love.

youth

October 26, 2021 by Rick Stassi you

a whisper unfurls

in delicate green,

as innocence arises

in hopeful serene.

give to the world

and take as you might,

we are the better

in your wandering plight.

dreams

October 7, 2021 by Rick Stassi you

peering deep inside my soul,

fearless abyss awaits

my curious and peering eyes.

wandering

in the solitude of

darkness,

a black hole absorbs

light and childhood frivolity

holding onto the last glimpse

of innocence.

Why can I not see in to what

secretly peers out of the void?

I lost so many parts of my self

without a sound.

without knowing,

the dull pain of sadness

swallows carefree levity and

forgotten memories.

Holding sway, is

the stagnate air

surrounding

lost dreams I never knew

I had.

My Father’s Love

August 27, 2021 by Rick Stassi you

Clinging on to

wings of grief.

Fading, falling,

Autumn Leaf.

If I should bear a trifle more,

I fear I’d burst

to crystalline hoar.

Longing outward to

guardian gaze,

on deeper waters

soon to laze

to know then

as already known,

in my Father’s love

I’m never alone.

abide

August 11, 2021 by Rick Stassi you

I wish I was whole again

Cast darkness aside,

To see myself clearly,

In Your arms, abide.

A treatise on the world

February 27, 2021 by Rick Stassi you

How desperate these times
of angst and anger.
Of self-promotion
and egocentric reason.
I believe in God.
The one absolute,
and single point
of overarching redemption.
I believe the continual
creep of relativistic thought
and truth dilution
cannot dissolve
this absolute.
I believe in love
from a single point origin
where there are no conditions
and selfless focus holds sway.
I believe judgment is veiled with
a self-serving love –
a deception which is steeped
in the minds
of an unreasonable and
uncaring world.

Rick Stassi copyright 2021