Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

joy

  • Listening, waiting…

    Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people. Philemon 1:7 What do I hear, O Lord? The voices of many and the ways they afford. But it brings me strength and movement toward Growing in Your family in one accord What do others Read more

  • 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

  • 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

  • Our Truth, the Way

    Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Psalm 144:4 (KJV) For as we behold angst in our days, These are the times when our focus on God strays Be wary of moments of depart As the enemy shall aim his fiery dart. But, for what will we gain Read more

  • Old Seasons…

    The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:25,26 (NKJV) Upon this place alone I stay, I wait for Him to come my way. Inside my mind all thoughts do Read more