This Window of My Mind

And so it is asked... and so it comes to pass ... 

as she stands before the open window...

This Window of My Mind

this window of my mind

by what light do I see

by what impressions am I moved

by what perceptions am I led

this window of my mind

by what shadows am I reflected

by what doubts am I haunted

by what fears am I consumed

this window of my mind

by what grace am I blessed

by what wisdom am I guided

by what love am I known

this window of my mind

by what destiny am I called

by what purpose am I defined

by what faith am I strengthened

this window of my mind

be there the love of God

be there the gift of children

be there the bounty of nature

this window of my mind

be there gratitude for this gift of life

be there a NOW of grace

be there ever the blessed light of PRESENCE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Moment by moment by moment...

 

A week of telephone calls… a week of messages… I listen, I hear, I reflect, I respond. I am told in tones of despair, in echoes of lament...  

moment by moment by moment … 

        the drawer is stuck
        the door is jammed
        the key does not fit
        the code is wrong
        the flow is blocked

what be this...

            a frustration
            a perceived impasse
            a consciousness
            a sense of helplessness
            a sigh
            a pause 
            a confront
            a determination
            a vision 
            an accord
            an awakening
            a doing
            a knowing
            a having
            a BEING
            a stream of consciousness
            an alignment 
            a resolve
            breath simply newly free
            and so…
            the balance
            the revelation
            the exchange 
            the ascension 
            the truth
            the harmony
            the receiving… the letting go… the giving 

a release, a deep realization, a transcendence, a perception newly conceived... I am told in tones of deliverance, in echoes of salvation, in truths held.

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS FABI

Consultation 

APOGEE Paradigm™

Poet Laureate

Quest onto SELF

Work of Art: 

Profile of Time, 1977-1984, Salvador Dalí

Heart Prayer

Valentine's Day 2021

Pulsing pulsing be this heart

First breath and life bears its earthly start

Heart prayer, an inner light, a flame

Passion, faith and truth in glory name

The call to self and another true

The blessings of devotion on to you

Abiding love within each heart a questing fair

To embrace another with love's tender care

Love to ever find its blessed sacred way

This moment, this hour, this very day.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Heart Prayer, APOGEE Vibrational Art, The Sounding Light Collection, 

©Rose Marie Raccioppi.

"The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. Thus in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules we read:

For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day

Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.

For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens."

From: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm

A Sunday Offering

snow it is 
a cloak of shimmering light
silent be these crystals 
so gently fall and fall and fall
be this Nature's Sunday Offering 
now at rest.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 
APOGEE Poet

Photo: Nature's Sunday Offering, 
Collectible Clicks, KK, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2021.

To Mirror SELF

 

the writer takes to pen

the artist takes to brush

the sculptor takes to hand

all in reflection

expressions created to mirror SELF

the dancer takes to form

the musician takes to sound

the teacher takes to concept

all in reflection

expressions created to mirror SELF

the lawyer takes to righteousness

the entrepreneur takes to profit

the politician takes to opportunity

all in reflection

expressions created to mirror SELF

the dreamer takes to vision

the believer takes to faith

the seeker takes to truth

all in reflection

expressions created to mirror SELF.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Hand with Reflecting Sphere by M. C. Escher. Lithograph, 1935.

At Any Given Moment...

    At any given moment, 

    I ask myself, and what be your WORD ... 

    what be the Wondrous you in appreciation celebrate, 

    what be the Omnipresence that you behold, 

    what be the Revelation that calls onto you, 

    what be the Deliverance you hold in blessings?

    Indeed THE WORD...

                            Wondrous

                                Omnipresence

                                    Revelation

                                        Deliverance

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

KNOW I...

Know I, beyond Fear there is FAITH, beyond Doubt there is DELIVERANCE, beyond Trepidation there is TRUST, beyond Dismay there is DIVINITY...

WE ~ Wondrous Eternal ~ an ever present ALCHEMY...

Ascension

    Love

        Creation

            Harmony

                Exchange

                    Manifestation

                        Yielding ... 

to Presence, to Self, 

    to the call of BEING.

Man in freedom so born is he

Yet shackled he sets himself to be

Oppression dark upon heart yet be lain

The echoes of emotion still held profane

The mind to silence daunting echoes of time past

And free the self from binding chains cast

Memory called to free mind, heart and soul

Alchemy to ring its welcomed toll.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Paradigm™

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Image: The Rebis (from the latin res bina, meaning double matter) is the end product of the alchemical "great work." After one has gone through putrefaction and purification, separating opposing qualities, those qualities are united once more in what is sometimes described as the divine hermaphrodite, a reconciliation of spirit and matter, a being of both male and female qualities as indicated by the two heads within a single body. For furter discussion: https://www.thoughtco.com/rebis-from-theoria-philosophiae...

Ancient wisdom, the alchemic quest, 

BEING in its ultimate expression...

this the APOGEE Paradigm™ in present day practice.