Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

my life

  • …and Your Love

    …and Your Love along a path blissfulness be God in heart His eyes follow me. ever watching a meandering child heart now pure but once defiled. a scent abounds and fills the air each breath I take Your heartfelt care. i step, and step again, to new places, and Your Love follows. further down the… Read more

  • my words

    “But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter” Roman 7:6 (KJV) Existing in each step planned By a god not in heaven but mind and land It is painful as the sun… Read more

  • The Binding Fire

    “And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.” Colossians 3:14 (KJV) The fifth season is the return of summer from where I began a year ago. In life. I was born in the summer when leaves were full, green, unfurled to a beautiful suppleness. The sweetness of the spring… Read more

  • Melancholy and my Elliptical Path

    Staggering elation surging through my heart overwhelms. Can this joy be sustained? I am touched with a happiness; a warmness from other hearts felt from many directions. Felt from far away and also close by. Yes! How another’s love can affect me so much. I may give seemingly without effort; but, receiving warms me as… Read more

  • Immersion in Grace

    For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work,… Read more