Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Peace

  • 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

  • Feathers and Iron

    “Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;” Colossians 1:11 O the strength and all the might Epic proportion never contrite Power beyond iron will as Iron will melt at His sight. O to level mountains and drain the seas Glorious God teach patience please Enrich my Read more

  • Regarding a Fowl

    “He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler” Psalm 91:4 (NKJV) “By natural instinct she not only protects them, but calls them under that protection when she sees them in danger, not only keeps them safe, but cherishes them and keeps them Read more

  • Concerning a Seed

    Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; Romans 1: 3 (KJV) Concerning a Seed upon the ground Tilled into soil all warmth surround Consider how it may grasp from me Endless thoughts of eternity Concerning the Seed first long ago Bleating lambs, cow’s Read more

  • Staggering elation surging through my heart overwhelms. Can this joy be sustained? I am touched with a happiness; a warmness from other hearts felt from many directions. Felt from far away and also close by. Yes! How another’s love can affect me so much. I may give seemingly without effort; but, receiving warms me as Read more