Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

thoughts

  • sanctuary

    heat dissipates warm nights recede to coolness, stillness, wisps of clouds impede moonlight in eerie veil. breezes returning to a cutting edge. dew on grass crystallizing as the cog slows and rotation finds respite sadly moisture through the veins of leaves long has passed. I sit and wonder and ponder time – cycles of seasons… Read more

  • Walk in Me

    “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him” Colossians 2:6 KJV Walk in Me Over valleys of streams And mossy lea ever soft Receiving footsteps Caressing weariness Bidding confidence Harboring pale sunlight Though moor and fen-misted Pleasant places where sweet Melodies linger upon the breeze. Walk in Me Then onto… Read more

  • beautiful

    Upon what thing beautiful shall my gaze alight? Something in a shallow place that is tempting and alluring? Where soon after a determined arrival, there is acute disappointment and an unsatisfied feeling of despair accompanied with an ugliness wrought from all things faded. I thought once the glimmer of the lonely moon which shone upon… Read more

  • firefly

    dark and frail gray hanging on to a bit of white lest a black demise. overcast skies absorbing what sunlight it can waiting for night and equanimity of hue. pinpoint light hidden well within my soul shrouded in clouds screams to be heard playing with the thought that even a firefly can be a lantern… Read more

  • each day

    drifting, drifting on a foundation of shifting sands as lulling distractions seep into thoughts, dreams, and focused eyes once held in fixed gaze now in abstentia and replaced by the lure of false confidence that really seems ever so true… such are the tricks the foibles and feeble grasps from Untruth trying to mount a… Read more