Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Need God

  • Prayer

    Within the core of my humble heart, Desiring to be set apart. When pure white dove does alight, Born of God’s one true light. (c) 2011-2019 rick stassi Read more

  • in God’s arms

    the slowness of breath in longest days, protects and restores; heart subtly seeks, in beautiful ways. alas dying leaf signaling change, reminds in colors; texture of old, my limited range the sureness of light in bathing love, reassembles hope; sepia dreams pass, in arms from Above. Read more

  • so far away

    so far, my God , so far away, your closeness recedes from yesterday. but, alas, as much as I feel spurned, I am certain, now, my back is turned. (c) 2011-2019 rick j stassi Read more

  • sincerity

    Through a glass darkly, it seems – I seek clarity of those innermost things. If truth lies awake on the hem of inner places sincere, waiting to divulge and alight on my outer being, then I pray for sincerity for peace so serene. (c) 2011-2019 rick j stassi   Read more

  • peacefully arrived

    Shall times of peace be nevermore? Accordingly amidst a toil- My heart is hardly arable soil, Feebly tranquil in unloving lore. Spying under harboring stones, I seek a foreshadowing need- In a language I cannot read, Increasing my heart bemoans. Alas in grateful revelation, A sound clearer than once before – God beckoning through the… Read more