Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

love

  • azure seas

    holding your face in my hands i gaze into azure seas deep and vast portals to your imagination and glimpses into your dreams. there is a serious wonderment and a revealing serious contemplation of things only you know. i will not ask in as just knowing you are within a moment’s adventure is satisfying enough,… Read more

  • consider time

    “But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, in the acceptable time” Psalm 69:13 NKJV Where are you, days gone by? I consider the sun’s rise once again onto fog shrouded oceans of wondering eyes peering up to the heavens hoping and praying that enigmatic Time will tell his story and all… Read more

  • beautiful

    But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Psalm 141:8 Upon what thing beautiful shall my gaze alight? Something in the shallow, alluring and beckoning, places welcomed by bidding hands to guide my path? Where soon after a joyous arrival there is acute disappointment… Read more

  • after all

    In a flowing brook lined with stones, A stream of water gently roams. Nourishing the faded and listless to life, Opposing gray with soft light rife. Like an adagio’s gentle melodic warming, Preceding allegro’s triumphant swarming. The gentleness upon eager ears, The preponderance of growing tears. But where, O Love, do you wish me to… Read more

  • me alone

      “Let me alone, For my days are but a breath” Job 7:16 Let me alone, passing time For I have so much more to Ponder and to absorb – To wonder about things forward And reflect on things aft. Let me alone, eroding wind For I am shielded in godliness A true and unique… Read more