Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Life

  • smile

    will you smile on wandering path that leads from the end of childhood to the presence of today’s sunlight? will you smile from destructive choice and thoughts of injured past to the willful audience with the Lord listening above? will you smile at things once amiss or a mother’s kiss and tales of imagination a Read more

  • trodden path

    upon a well-trodden path i stroll pick a pebble from nearby knoll i place it in my pocket deep as a memory is a treasur’d keep each new day my pocket bears more all tiny stones from times before but many more shall come my way each moment lit in Spirit’s ray one pocket full, Read more

  • moment’s sigh

    weep not for crimson light disappearing into night peer east for ocher’s hue grand entrance for things new cry not for those who leave indulge a moment to bereave look instead to lively eyes which overshadow bluest skies solemnity makes senses aware far off light draws our stare knowing beauty for all to come shadows Read more

  • morning joy

    pray peace abound where hardly a sound invades captive seeking when God is thus speaking pray love pervade those best intentions laid upon a cold helpless heart what God doth impart pray hope implored crossing at stream’s ford the water of all living how God is thus giving pray eternal golden tether our hearts all Read more

  • moon

    The harvest moon i spied tonight with his light casting over things passing much too quickly. and I longed for morning but Instead I asked him to remember when he was younger so we could talk about blessed moments gone by. (c) 2014 Rick Stassi Read more