Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Poetry

  • Determined

    “And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts” Psalm 119:45 (KJV) I hasten to Thee with determined pace You are righteousness and just. Wandering among the words You speak I draw toward my center sanctified trust. Lingering among words so clean, Cutting to the core. Freeing from my arduous past, Your face Read more

  • Now reborn

      I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Psalm 77:6 (KJV) So, what is this song haunting so deep? Passed melodies I once did reap. I call upon darkened past To view a journey, shadow cast. In this shadow, I see Read more

  • …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

  • i heard him say

    I heard Him say “and when you ran to me your cheeks flushed with the night we walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight I held your hand”[1] …and I responded and when You held out Your hand warmth from lamplight Oil I, once barren seed upon the sand sprouted now from fertile soil Read more

  • embraced

    Embers glowing, fire bright Warmth protrudes from what is light From afar we view, you take my hand Such distance to travel to this venerated land Through freezing field I traipse a pilgrim’s journey But I worry not because you’re with me And tarry not, the gait is swift A lightened load gives me a Read more