Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Peace

  • Love, so true

    The overwhelming light of tomorrow’s day. When hope is greater than the sum of dreams broken in forgotten time. Optimism wins as half-empty glasses pour out onto surfaces for tepid fate. Give me hope and dreams eternal! Let me abide within arms of comfort and sacred sanctuary. You offer a heart filled with promise anew; Read more

  • In me

    Craving closeness, Resisting watchful eyes. Pushing away The very one Who sees in me That which I  do not. -Rick Read more

  • Dust

    Aligned with vanity, So much disappears That holds hope; That leads thought; That blows away. The dust knows not The wind nor the ground – Making peace with each once, in a while. Can it be my soul? A foot on the rung That Ascends, Temporal to eternal. Or, the heart of faith? Firmly grounded Read more

  • 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

  • a time

    Strong is the pull to Mother’s womb a time of innocence gone so soon. Stronger is inherent drive to Father’s gaze a time for worthiness reverence and praise. Read more