Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Need God

  • He is near

    Calm me, comfort this frail heart at odds with that which would sooner steal joy and watch eager eyes fail, only to winnow places above the horizon for certain clues of the mystery who is God and is always near. (c) 2017 rick stassi Read more

  • floating

    unfalling, floating still life – a wingspan fortress. forward motion extinct and time is motionless. I hear my heart in soft meter among these days of solitude… a gentle updraft respects the greater pull of élan in overt disregard for earth and sea. (c) 2016-2017 rick stassi Read more

  • after death

    There is mercy on the wings of a dove. Alight! O Love, with peace to spare darkened, cold, wintry plight. How do eyes sunken in despair see outward to jeweled sunrise and know the hope of a new day? There is joy inside, steeping – ready to infuse all cells with new life. Just one… Read more

  • open door

    I long to peer inside your heart to feel the things that urge new start. entrancing words roll off your tongue like the sheltering breezes boughs hide among. the imprint of wiser paths across impending icy field leads me upon stinging frost with progress’ fruitful yield. I yearn to see your face today and know… Read more

  • serenity

    i tend to think about some things that lend to sprout of temporal wings i float aloft in empty skies dreaming of escape from miry lies. there is death among such losses led by which way the angry wind tosses this spiral into endless chasm heart hardened in infinite sarcasm shall i break from where… Read more