Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

God loves

  • Hasten I to Goodness

    Hasten I to goodness door A place surely I’ve been before Alas i found it was not akin To the goodness I have labored in. God has paved a goodness path That rents the veil of darker wrath And shown to me His graceful means My eyes absorb where heart thus leans. I pray for… Read more

  • find bliss

    the greatness of things to come shall not overshadow this day, but shall build dreams and unshackle the grief in this moment. elemental evidence of mankind’s misgivings ingrains furrowed countenance. i look around to sad eyes fixed in shadows – gleam so slight, gravely downcast. hope resides on glances returned. evil destroys but a warm… Read more

  • my saviour

    i think about childlike things carefree optimism for what life brings i wish i really believed those thoughts instead of falling freely to worldy plots it takes abandon to break this mold and carry on in truth so bold temporal life is right on track to bring all to dust in loving lack try as… Read more

  • times with you

    The year settling upon forlorn eyes the aged furrows in weathered brow O tarnished heart the wind thus spies gathering toil now. A smile can quench sheltered loss a lasting breeze in summer heat Or a velvet shimmer in autumn moss Pray lovely thoughts shall meet. Lying about in passing days hand in mine reclusive… Read more

  • bluer skies

    Panning west with eyes of rust seeking closure in crimson trust rest awaits in hallowed clouds as God Himself harvests fields plowed the west is where life must end and rotation controls all light to send and when at last I close my eyes God awakens me in bluer skies. (c) 2017 rick stassi Read more