Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

idle thoughts

  • joy’s new day

    The person held more self-assured The soul dissolves in vain absurd The heart awakens in clarity’s gaze The personal joy in newborn days (c) 2017 rick stassi Read more

  • still azure

    the kindness I seek Is deep within your eyes. a gentle smile so warm like still azure skies. i reach out to feel the strength in your hand confiding outward trust I cannot understand. the faith that is gained in a vessel hard-pressed promises love eternal in surreal breaths of rest. (c) 2017 rickstassi Read more

  • forevermore

    I sigh in measured moments waiting to embrace a sacred smile and piercing guardian eyes bringing blue skies to overcome the gray emptiness settling over a barren soul. The stillness of impending rain before air liquefies in bursts of hope and I know the rain on autumn’s eve above the cedar’s reach in rising hope Read more

  • 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

  • mindfulness

    In the evening of these waning days, my heart reaches out to gather times past. Thoughts are obsessed with memory elixirs easing stinging effects of this breath. Mind not to rest in haunting enemies of the past. Rather, delight in love then and now. As I hold onto the light that has nurtured me this Read more