Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

God loves

  • optimism

    pressing into better days dreaming of sun’s warming rays dreary darkness failing release when icy winds surely cease and beyond horizon where eyesight ends to God my optimistic heart extends. (c) 2017 rickjstassi Read more

  • summer’s eve

    I don’t remember Monday Storm clouds roiling at night Or Tuesday’s icy morning Swan horn upon meadow’s flight Then Wednesday and her north wind strong Urging bow in sapling tree Thursday’s ever growing days That hopeful eyes shall see In Friday’s sultry evening’s rest Cicada’s rhythmic satisfied  sound Saturday’s warm moonlit nights To our hearts… Read more

  • binding sorrow

    Do I trust God less in my shadowed day with sight evading ever lighted way I know of good things hoped for tomorrow are here too today binding my sorrow. (c) 2017 rickJstassi Read more

  • love, faith, trust

    I rarely feel, in uncertain times, I will see passage to more forgiving climes. Even knowing, in steadfast love, that passage begins with descending dove. Thus i forge ahead where sea weds air, and draw upon faith for countenance fair. But for closure to this daily plod it is trust that completes this path to… Read more

  • He is near

    Calm me, comfort this frail heart at odds with that which would sooner steal joy and watch eager eyes fail, only to winnow places above the horizon for certain clues of the mystery who is God and is always near. (c) 2017 rick stassi Read more