Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Jesus

  • i heard him say

    I heard Him say “and when you ran to me your cheeks flushed with the night we walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight I held your hand”[1] …and I responded and when You held out Your hand warmth from lamplight Oil I, once barren seed upon the sand sprouted now from fertile soil Read more

  • embraced

    Embers glowing, fire bright Warmth protrudes from what is light From afar we view, you take my hand Such distance to travel to this venerated land Through freezing field I traipse a pilgrim’s journey But I worry not because you’re with me And tarry not, the gait is swift A lightened load gives me a Read more

  • scattered

    “…he loved them unto the end” John 13:1 (KJV) seeking the sweetness of true love. bound to a series of feelings inside my heart, as it breaks daily allowing worldly collide. for love is a dream – an idea of rare things: gentle jonquils, sunsets, diamond rings. holding someone dear, in my arms, as scattered thoughts Read more

  • 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

  • certainty

    Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6 (NKJV) truth? a certain question with the answer a certain evasion it is man leaning upon his wisdom with his inner self wearily burdened as he seeks this question of all times – a question Read more