Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Grace

  • Concentric

    Pressing into every joint, Into His omniscience we immerse. His Spirit strong at a single point, Outward, direct, sure, never adverse With the spherical radii we reach into The Cloud of wisdom, love around. Infinite presence stable and true We know, we just know, without a sound. For God is there, in all direction And Read more

  • flailing at darkness, uncertainty lost

    Artist Credit: Sean Seal “And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.” 1 Corinthians 9:25,26 (NKJV) so where is 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

  • 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

  • Like a Tree

    And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Psalm 1:3 (KJV) What is like a tree So strongly set? With rooting system’s Foundation met. And of this tree It also Read more