Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

love

  • and i thought

    dreaming of so far away where upon tufts of moss I lie gazing up lost in hues of forever on new petals of Spring’s awakening emitting the joy of a peaceful bliss… and i thought i saw your face blush when i told you God loves you so much your bare feet and laughter with… Read more

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • kindness

    cast not away he who strives for a slight bit of smoldering ember to keep a small flame burning with its constant threat to extinguish deep inside where darkness and cold pervade he offers what he has and asks for little or nothing heading on his way down cold worn paths and icy fields can… Read more