Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

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  • Upon Grassy Knoll

    Flailing arms In a panicked sea Determined currents Fashioned for me. Are there vessels That purposefully float On meaningful ways Ushered by words God wrote? Should I swim Against icy torrent Listlessly failing All motivation spent, Or calmly believe Life for eternity Is more than existing In trifled monotony. I weep for those In existential Read more

  • soft grasses

    A wisp of air, an atmospheric sigh, intertwines in fields of soft pale grasses. a reminder of spirit unseen yet always felt. it is time to breathe to weep and smile – relive times not too far behind. I see your eyes, kind and surreal, watching from clouds. You continue to see what you failed 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

  • childlike

    you encircle my dreams in childlike wisps of breezes. capturing every thought like deep wintry freezes. the memory of you is still all too near. your old blanket i have such fragrance held dear. and when eyes are set upon a new day, I remember in heaven is now where you play. (c) 2015 rick Read more