Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Jesus

  • 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

  • beyond blue

    “Then said he, Give me thy hand; so he gave him his hand, and he drew him out, and set him upon solid Ground, and bid him go on his way.“ O, that You would be ever toward me to comfort in times of despair and offer a hand for respite from burden when solid Read more

  • with love

    The cause of mercies that settles nigh The pause of goodness that oft passes by What shall I see in awaken’d times? The rise and fall of harmonic rhymes For all I embrace is the breath of life Casting off all clinging strife Here now my wanting eyes meet The One who is about Mercy’s Read more

  • pain

    All pain has already been endured. All emotion is but a short depleting burst to self-medicate those impossible things that seem desperately beyond our reach. When do i fully cross the line from temporal to eternal and allow all- encompassing hands to grasp this frail and hurting vessel that was knit and molded to be Read more