Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

joy

  • Love, so true

    The overwhelming light of tomorrow’s day. When hope is greater than the sum of dreams broken in forgotten time. Optimism wins as half-empty glasses pour out onto surfaces for tepid fate. Give me hope and dreams eternal! Let me abide within arms of comfort and sacred sanctuary. You offer a heart filled with promise anew; Read more

  • In me

    Craving closeness, Resisting watchful eyes. Pushing away The very one Who sees in me That which I  do not. -Rick Read more

  • beautiful day

    Beautiful day, hold me tight. Show me birds in high blue flight. Show me bare branches once clothed in green. Show me fields of waves serene. Help me look beyond things i can touch. To see God’s eyes, I love so much. Rick Read more

  • Spirit

    The sheltering song Of overwhelming love, Alights upon my heart On the wings of a dove. Read more

  • Dust

    Aligned with vanity, So much disappears That holds hope; That leads thought; That blows away. The dust knows not The wind nor the ground – Making peace with each once, in a while. Can it be my soul? A foot on the rung That Ascends, Temporal to eternal. Or, the heart of faith? Firmly grounded Read more