Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

God

  • 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

  • The Binding Fire

    “And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.” Colossians 3:14 (KJV) The fifth season is the return of summer from where I began a year ago. In life. I was born in the summer when leaves were full, green, unfurled to a beautiful suppleness. The sweetness of the spring Read more

  • i will try, Lord

    “Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.” Psalm 26:2 (KJV) look at me Lord do I return glance? i will try so to prosper, advance in times heavy with fear do i seek Your face? i will try to keep Your pace prove me Lord do i feel Your fire? i will try Read more

  • In Love All Bound

    “And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness” Colossians 3:14 (KJV) Charity, love, all I feel for hearts authentic vulnerable still, yet quiet not these humble hearts they writhe in angst against enemy darts but i can see the crying lot of those succumbed to dreadful spot and compassion Read more

  • …and I will

    and I will grieve not for my shortcoming joined with impatience- wounds bitter sting but shall use these for fodder for which to burn in remembrance of lost moments ne’er to return and I will grieve not over time in waste because of blindness moving wildly in haste and I will grieve not that I Read more