Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

emptiness

  • 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

  • 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is harsh toward us and Dagon our god.” 8 Therefore they sent and gathered to themselves all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we Read more

  • 1 Praise the LORD!   Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,  Who delights greatly in His commandments. 2 His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches will be in his house, And his righteousness endures forever. 4 Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness; He is gracious, and full of compassion, and Read more