compassion
-
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
-
there are passages we traipse through where lessons are learned even in impossible darkness interrupted by a lucid glimmer of hope. a page is turned in a book of life with trials passing by lying on my back on green leas with you and cloudless days with endless azure. looking through a glass darkly here Read more
-
O poor man you so quickly give up when diverse atmosphere shrouds an otherwise happy moment grasped onto as securely as climbing a rope of cascading sand. Life is nothing more than a failed memory, joy faded, peace penetrated, melody unresolved in chords connected to hope in your unsettled soul’s symphony. Existential nightmare of a Read more
-
The warming Sun so melts the snow To drop a tear to the ground below Warranted thaw such drops will cause Giving Winter a needed pause Tiny tears then join as one A rivulet has now begun Without anxiousness where gravity draws This is the way of obedient thaws Many more join to form cool Read more
-
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
Rick Stassi Poetry 