Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

heaven

  • temporal lost

    flowers languish with the setting sun it is time to seek true strength from which victory comes and is counted each moment in small battles on seeming infinite fields prodding at my weakness. now is when discontent and the hopeful yearning for joy meet eye-to-eye – confidence and trust dancing with unpleasant weariness. in the Read more

  • a new worship

    storms ebb in pale gray dawn as first light stirs and eyes are rubbed in confusion – for a bit – as thoughts catch up to this moment. what we believe we cannot endure, soon is another victory claimed with the confidence bred in the aftermath. however, listen now and hear: true victory is realized Read more

  • reasoning

    Reasoning held afloat by caustic visions and venomous tongue within walls built to keep one’s rationale in and One truth out. Soon time will exact its due reward for being the guardian of hope as wistful eyes seek a pardon from sorrowful life sentence And heart and soul will reconcile at the meeting of sea Read more

  • legacy

    And so, fields of green.New breath of lifeSeeking spring rainsWhich pleasantly placateThe thirstOf all things. And so, fields of gold.O, the time of our standPassing quickly, steadily…Now balmy days of reflection:Satisfied and flourishing,Certain and abounding And so, fields of gray.Joyful rest in shortened daysBlanketed with a colorful coveringOf leaves from trees.Wiser now and older, patient.Seeds Read more

  • going home

    as open doors beckon me with a revealed realization of full life- more than one man can imagine in a lifetime or a string of lifetimes. the eternal nature of God: so much more than self-goodness and happiness or impossible distance measured in redshift; but the redemption of a single tarnished soul by grace alone. In His Read more