Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

He hears

  • floating

    unfalling, floating still life – a wingspan fortress. forward motion extinct and time is motionless. I hear my heart in soft meter among these days of solitude… a gentle updraft respects the greater pull of élan in overt disregard for earth and sea. (c) 2016-2017 rick stassi Read more

  • faithful spring

    cradle my soul with thoughts of you enlighten my sight above crimson and blue fashion my desires toward seeing your eyes deeply reflecting comfort arise how can I among these masses hear true love beat in a heart as it passes ground me forever on growing warmth knolls away from the tumult of thrashing sopped… Read more

  • Shepherd’s Keep

    welcome now my lighted way setting mind at ease today never seen angst’s corrosive leap within the tight embrace of shepherd’s keep how i wish for times like these laid end-to-end o’er wider leas forming a lifetime of joyful mirth with faithful steps from sweet rebirth Read more

  • open door

    I long to peer inside your heart to feel the things that urge new start. entrancing words roll off your tongue like the sheltering breezes boughs hide among. the imprint of wiser paths across impending icy field leads me upon stinging frost with progress’ fruitful yield. I yearn to see your face today and know… Read more

  • serenity

    i tend to think about some things that lend to sprout of temporal wings i float aloft in empty skies dreaming of escape from miry lies. there is death among such losses led by which way the angry wind tosses this spiral into endless chasm heart hardened in infinite sarcasm shall i break from where… Read more