Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

darkness

  • lovely and true

    peace comes in drops of rain light piercing in prismatic plane with hopeful glances far above He is near and cradles in love when do we fill the gap of vanity and overflow like tourmaline sea? i ponder inward and see my flaw knowing God’s restoration in awe renewal waxes in unfurling leaf soft green Read more

  • treatise 2

    For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 KJV How I long to See deeper into My soul To understand How God sees me And you. Would I then Learn to Read more

  • in passages

    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

  • forlorn

    Your oversight of precious worth Sustaining life apart from mirth Blind to glances of loving care Leaving lost senses unaware Despair’s song the mourning dove sings You were meant to hear such things Shadows hide the sunlit glare In hidden darkness a lifeless lair But O, the mist of early rain A calming tear is Read more

  • i dreamed

    i dreamed about vast grandeur, an eternal unfolding sky. endless, enveloping, seeming where old things go to die. i dreamed of far bright lights upon a darkened sullen gray following, following, now ever closer i choose to run away. I dreamed of green, lighted fields the ones inviting so severing, severing my earthly ties now Read more