Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Fear

  • green and white

    But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. Job 23:10 O that I should look upon the past Still salvaging  pieces of things You will outlast Gripping struggles gone long ago Greener pastures, whiter snow. But what is this pain inside my core? A reminder! Read more

  • home

    home is a Light well lit. There in my heart discarding my wit. placing dreams of gold and arms of love – pierced then healed, my guardian shield subduing fear I feebly wield. eyes upon my soul now pure tis my home i reason, so sure to where He beckons –  to where dew shant 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

  • Fall and the Harvest Moon

    Originally posted on Rick Stassi Poetry: When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; 1 Corinthians 13:11 In the Fall of my life, leaves peeled away from my branches and fell to the ground. In my understanding, I was like a tree. Once… Read more