Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

my life

  • future gaze

    I wonder if I’d found some way, to circumvent those fruitless tries, truly to avoid – by some degree, a pocketful of deceitful lies.   When these questions might’ve been asked, subject seldom was ever raised, but now answers – take life’s past portions and blend with present’s future gaze. Read more

  • inner man

    purify, new inner man. child upon lightness; sheltered from darkness. away! amber delay. fear to One, find my way.   rick   Read more

  • greater will

    I wonder in color, dream in vivid hue. count blessings on hands and feet, awaken amid waxing blue The days ever so bitter, the time ever so lost. all safely tucked away now, forgotten tattered and tossed. Optism is the brighter way, joy is better still. when hope and trust in greater things, are resting… Read more

  • promise

    winter born on fragile brown wondering heartbeats make no sound save promise whispering in cold recline O hopeful promise soon be mine   Read more

  • a beacon

    Hope follows lightly when despair reaps its day a beacon shines in tired eyes I see impassioned way. rick Read more