Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

eternity

  • …and Your Love

    …and Your Love along a path blissfulness be God in heart His eyes follow me. ever watching a meandering child heart now pure but once defiled. a scent abounds and fills the air each breath I take Your heartfelt care. i step, and step again, to new places, and Your Love follows. further down the Read more

  • i heard him say

    I heard Him say “and when you ran to me your cheeks flushed with the night we walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight I held your hand”[1] …and I responded and when You held out Your hand warmth from lamplight Oil I, once barren seed upon the sand sprouted now from fertile soil Read more

  • embraced

    Embers glowing, fire bright Warmth protrudes from what is light From afar we view, you take my hand Such distance to travel to this venerated land Through freezing field I traipse a pilgrim’s journey But I worry not because you’re with me And tarry not, the gait is swift A lightened load gives me a Read more

  • Love Completed

    And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun. Ecclesiastes 2:11 (NKJV) and indeed toils for naught retrospect sought we seek certain pleasure in life by world taught and when we peer upon life’s year grains of sand through hand falls with sadness and a tear but Read more

  • Our Truth, the Way

    Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Psalm 144:4 (KJV) For as we behold angst in our days, These are the times when our focus on God strays Be wary of moments of depart As the enemy shall aim his fiery dart. But, for what will we gain Read more