Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Life

  • And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 1 John 2:2 (NKJV) Atonement Born in man all ill of will, Patience lost with reasoning unreal. Transparent elixirs alluring call, His face pressed against a wall. Hear the siren’s tempting song, Pressing darkness moves along. Read more

  • Vignettes 2

    Prologue Man seeks with his reason A path finite and slow. But soon He shall find season When it is God, love to show. Reasonable? Rel-a-tiv-is-m Man’s self-derived self-reason Spiritual death. Truth And the Word was God Kai Logos ēn pros theos, So, God walked with Man [1] Physical That which we have seen Imprint Read more

  • fifty-five

    22 Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. 23 But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you. Psalm 55:22,23 If I look Read more

  • Your Ways, O Lord

    4 Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. 5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day. Psalm 25 (NKJV) Am I ever there yet? Where is there? My life is good. I count the blessings bestowed Read more

  • 1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will Read more