Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

hopeless

  • in God alone

    In God alone, I strive to place my eyes where my heart shall soon follow. Only in my solitude shall I truly be sound in judgment as focus thus waxes and lucidity pervades. I see my soul, now, as He has always seen and all too soon I shall emanate joy.   (c) 2017 rickstassi 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

  • Upon Grassy Knoll

    Flailing arms In a panicked sea Determined currents Fashioned for me. Are there vessels That purposefully float On meaningful ways Ushered by words God wrote? Should I swim Against icy torrent Listlessly failing All motivation spent, Or calmly believe Life for eternity Is more than existing In trifled monotony. I weep for those In existential 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