Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

God

  • a time before

    where would I be if not with God? entrenched in cunning vanity on worn saddened paths. I am overcome by my plight of undisciplined boldness wrought in self might leading to thorny briar. O, I can ponder the ends of the night sky wandering in emptiness based on vain premise. thoughts of grandeur born so Read more

  • sureness

    i am sure the sun will rise and awaken silent sleepy eyes bringing radiant waves of light warming skin cooled from the night i am sure, as sure as can be that rain begins upon the sea giving flowers and grasses green a glimpse of heaven, eternally serene i am sure that God above will Read more

  • smile

    will you smile on wandering path that leads from the end of childhood to the presence of today’s sunlight? will you smile from destructive choice and thoughts of injured past to the willful audience with the Lord listening above? will you smile at things once amiss or a mother’s kiss and tales of imagination a Read more

  • trodden path

    upon a well-trodden path i stroll pick a pebble from nearby knoll i place it in my pocket deep as a memory is a treasur’d keep each new day my pocket bears more all tiny stones from times before but many more shall come my way each moment lit in Spirit’s ray one pocket full, Read more

  • new life

    leaves unfurling in new life born upon generations fed by roots which in great wisdom have seen many come and go but it all hardly matters as it is forward for a soft leaf in a new time ingrained with promise steeped in legacy all with new purpose for a season that springs upon the Read more