Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Psalm 23

  • Love Serene

    A moment without God The amber hue of our inward vision is mired in doubt. Flee to greener leas of godly peace to wisdom in waters deep and love serene. (c) 2020 Rick Stassi Read more

  • mindfulness

    In the evening of these waning days, my heart reaches out to gather times past. Thoughts are obsessed with memory elixirs easing stinging effects of this breath. Mind not to rest in haunting enemies of the past. Rather, delight in love then and now. As I hold onto the light that has nurtured me this Read more

  • Upon Grassy Knoll

    Flailing arms In a panicked sea Determined currents Fashioned for me. Are there vessels That purposefully float On meaningful ways Ushered by words God wrote? Should I swim Against icy torrent Listlessly failing All motivation spent, Or calmly believe Life for eternity Is more than existing In trifled monotony. I weep for those In existential Read more

  • meadows green

    I long to see the lighter side where troubled heart shall soon abide engaging glances from heavenly will seeking refuge in waters still. I want to see the warming sky where mind contemplates God on high enraging a world so temporally serene finding rest on meadows green. (c) 2017 rickjstassi 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