Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

idle thoughts

  • reasoning

    Reasoning held afloat by caustic visions and venomous tongue within walls built to keep one’s rationale in and One truth out. Soon time will exact its due reward for being the guardian of hope as wistful eyes seek a pardon from sorrowful life sentence And heart and soul will reconcile at the meeting of sea Read more

  • the hues of above

    heart empties of blue and gray from those early times of great dismay avarice and vanity flee while temptation cries out selfish plea the cowardice of the pitiful swarm with ego away in supercilious storm energizing color will soon adhere to welcoming pale of a sad old year and you shall know the source of Read more

  • sureness

    i am sure the sun will rise and awaken silent sleepy eyes bringing radiant waves of light warming skin cooled from the night i am sure, as sure as can be that rain begins upon the sea giving flowers and grasses green a glimpse of heaven, eternally serene i am sure that God above will Read more

  • forlorn

    Your oversight of precious worth Sustaining life apart from mirth Blind to glances of loving care Leaving lost senses unaware Despair’s song the mourning dove sings You were meant to hear such things Shadows hide the sunlit glare In hidden darkness a lifeless lair But O, the mist of early rain A calming tear is Read more