HAUSER - "Live in Zagreb" FULL Classical Concert...

Today's STORM has come to pass. All is laden with the sweetness of the summer rain, and a deep sigh is brought, for we choose to listen... and so it is... PRAISE to HAUSER... His expressive passion, music he plays from heart and holds tenderly within soul. There is a special splendor that he makes known, and blessed we become onto our SELF. 

The grace of the violins
The spirit of the voices that sing 
An orchestration that touches all sensibilities 
And so we rejoice
The MUSE in gifts of divinity and light 
Beholden be our prayer.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

The STORM ~ here in Tappan, New York

As I cast my eyes above to the light

Be there the firmament, a veil of gossamer white

The south winds with haunting echoes be they heard

Lithe bamboo and branches sway to the calling word

Hushed and then resounding be these winds that call

The lament, the plea, to sing the light, blessed be ALL.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Her calling, her calling...

Her calling, her calling...

Torrential rains upon roof be they heard

Thunderous calls be this night’s word

Storming skies dark and shadowed they be 

The dawning, and alas, light anew onto thee

What secrets does Mother Earth yet bare

Heed her call for our grace, for our knowing care

Her bounty, our harvest, with sun and rain, blessed be

Her calling, her calling, from mountain tops, sea to sea.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

SPROUTING...

A sprouting green upon a counter be it shown

The grace of growth, the emergent seed be known

The ambient air, light and sun call to seed and root divine

Delight of green, blessed be sprouting, sprouting made mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

APOGEE Poet

Sounds, Letters, Words... BEING...

        Sounds and the corresponding letters, 

           letters and the corresponding words, 

             words and the corresponding meanings, 

               meanings and the corresponding thoughts, 

                 thoughts and the corresponding consciousness,

                   consciousness and the corresponding BEING, 

                     these be the fascination of this poet.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Ravel - Bolero. Sergiu Celibidache 1971

One is seduced by the gentle touch of sound ... to a mounting momentum, until one becomes the crescendo completely in rapture. Thank You....

Music calls to me in color, in movement, and in the passions, that pulse our very BEING.

 Hear I the music and the words become expressive echoes
 Hear I the words and the music becomes the dance
 Hold I the pen and the paper bears the poetry of heart
 Hold I the brush and the canvas bears my soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

WHAT

and what does a poet do

to make her soul known to you

her words held within time and deed

be this her love and sacred creed

melodies majestic she in silence sings

in honor of what each breath does bring 

a moment to savor be it the NOW

with pen and paper she fulfills a vow

to take reflection and its known call

heed well the Glory, the Presence, the All.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York 

Image: Poetry, in acknowledgment by Blue Mountain.