Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

idle thoughts

  • quiet days

    how resilient is your translucent skin soft and resistant to fallen drops of sullen days gone by there is peace in your eyes uncertain wilting smile where i seek solace wondering often if we shall ever walk in moonlit meadows again or look to heaven to ask God for more time and joyous sanctuary hallowed Read more

  • lament

    the sun is far the moon awry on a faraway beach does my heart lie. where is my true love? night vessels have passed aching core realized this may be my last. how does a dove in mourning so sweet lament a new day prior to wing’s beat? and I peering out of windows of Read more

  • newer times

    rest not on blessed light shone of candle moonlight over tepid sand laurels of relief and times of brief succession from angst prayers answered riding miracles over seething writhed calamities bursts of happiness or sudden awakening. rest in hands that hold heartfelt echo’s ripple brushing your soul in all times comes whispers of love and Read more

  • unflawed

    fairer into further lands sea ecapes to horizon’s hands all inside awaken me ascending dove shines times to be if my place is among the air and I soon may rest without a care I long to see the eyes of God Everlasting, loving beautifully unflawed (c) 2016 rickjstassi Read more

  • sun’s ray

    all life is reduced to a final gasp of air a handshake with the atmospere a pact of unsavory fare i saw a desperate shine in your eyes soon fade approaching your Jordan River a call you could not evade I’m sure you questioned why heartfelt deep inside and then to God above now with Read more