Passion

Passion
the pulsing
adventure
of soul of spirit
inspired by
omnipresent need
Passion
the very flame
that lights
the creative longing
the quest for purpose
the reach for knowing
Passion
the wakeful night
that looks to the stars
the moon
the rising sun
the promise of the new day
Passion
the touch of the sublime
the silent yearning
the one known
the beauty perceived
the moment present
Passion
what I dream
what I vision
what I feel as ME
what I know as SELF
what it is to BE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Flower, Photograph, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009


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White Orchid

A gift of bloom for Mother's Day
And with loving care white orchid's array
Petals like angel wings alight
Delicate in their regal splendor white
Such sentient majesty this grace of bloom
The light of stars and a cresting moon
Unfurl be your budding center divine
In florid embrace wings within sublime.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


White Orchid, Photograph, RMR, Collectible Clicks,©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009.



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Floral Aurora Corona

Such beauty the heavens enfold
Pulsing light brilliant and bold
Luminous green and violet in majestic array
A solar wind stream at creation's play
Sweeping hues of ephemeral splendor
To the will of beauty my soul surrender.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day, 7/28/2009, A Floral Aurora Corona, Credit & Copyright: Zoltan Kenwell
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Forget-Me-Not

Blooms of azure blue
Centers of a golden hue
Sweet scenting memories in praise
The Forget-Me-Not of yesterdays.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


For-Get-Me Not, Photograph, http://www.cottagegardenandfarm.com

YouTube - ♥♫ Forget me not - ERNESTO CORTAZAR ♥♫(Relaxing piano music)♥♫
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The Violin's Voice

The flow and grasp of hand
A bow in heart's command
Sounding strings
Sensibility of soul
Waves of a knowing grace
Fill the room
Each note
Each pause
Each touch
And heard be the violin's voice
The music
The music.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate

Music is the poetry of emotion
And poetry is the voice of music.

In tribute to

Keryn Kleiman
Violinist

Performance Extraordinaire
July 25, 2009

J.S. Bach
Mozart
Kreisler
Granados
D' Falla
Gluck
Ravel

Soiree Society of the Arts
Carnegie Room Concerts
Nyack, New York


Portrait of a Woman, Oil on Canvas, 1800, Jozef Grassi, Italian/Austrian, 1758-1838.



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Tenderly Onto The Shore

Sounding gentle winds
Embracing waters
Ocean waves
Tenderly onto the shore
So like the lilting memory
Of our touch
This moment
This moment of summer love.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Ocean Wave, Photograph, Jim Smith, http://jimmyinsandiego.com/photos.htm


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From Depths of Darkness

From depths of darkness vast
A vortex of light be cast
In heavens and galaxies there to find
The knowing of the Great Mind
In silence, in chaos, the quest is heard
Dispel the darkness and light be The Word.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day, Starburst Galaxy M94, Credit & Copyright: Marcin Paciorek
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Flowering Stars

Flowering stars and depths of gold
Within your petals a prayer to unfold
Your soft silken touch and gentle feel
Delicate splendor in this moment real
Hold I your quiet bearing in heart
From beauty's call I shan't depart.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Flowering Stars, White Flower, Photograph, PFR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009


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Majestic Array

Radiant be its majestic array
The light to touch its petals this day
Emergent splendor within this budding divine
Its color, its form, opulence sublime
The reaching grace of each petal I to perceive
And known be the Great Mind in which I believe.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Majestic Array, Flower/back lit, Photograph, PFR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009


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Rippling Streaming Waters

Rippling streaming waters
Deep in the entwine
Of brush and tree
Holding to the sun's setting light
Shadowed and white capped flow
To your gentle depths
Am I to be welcomed
Dare I now step
Into your beguiling path
What lies in the distance
Beyond the darkened bend
Go, Trust, I hear the waters speak
Hold Faith for all you seek
Flowing waters
My heart and soul do hear
Libation and banished be fear.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Rippling Streaming Waters, Photograph, Karen Krinitz, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009


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At A Wood Crafted Table

At a wood crafted table
Weathered, grayed
By rain, sun and shade
The silent echoes of trees
From which it was made
A robin red breast near
Its song a knowing wise
For it too sees the tree
In its now present disguise
So still, so quiet, I to be
To keep that robin near
On the lookout by me
Robin and I, hear our song
'Tis All One in Praise
The breath of trees
And summer days.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Fence Post Lookout, Photograph, Stephen Baird, 2009, http://www.nikonsniper.blogspot.com

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Of a Summer Day

A thousand moons I do see
A thousand suns in light before me
A thousand wonders petals enfold
A thousand days of a story told
Such bloom and majesty in grand array
The resplendent perfection of a summer day.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Pink flower, Photograph, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009

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Sandro Plays

Heard within the Presence of Self
The resounding of piano and passion
Hands and fingers move in lilting grace
Each note calls to be known
To be this moment opulent
A sea of silence
Enfolded in the embracing waves
Of sound majestic
Upon piano keys a soul to place
Sandro plays
And known be the eternal
The music, the music.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Performance Extraordinaire

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Soiree Society of the Arts
July 18, 2009
Nyack, New York

In Tribute to

Sandro Russo
Pianist


Performing

Mozart
Mendelssohn
Lieberman
Medtner
Schubert/Liszt
Verdi/Liszt
Scriabin
Chopin

With loving gratitude,

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate

Music is the poetry of emotion
And poetry is the voice of music.

To Soar, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com


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Restoration

The buzzing of the saw
The humming of the drill
The tapping of the hammer
The sweep of the trowel
A choral symphony of labor fills the air
Men with heart and hand set to repair
Hands of might and will ever so strong
To move each challenge smoothly along
Time ravaged wood and stone
Newly set, newly honed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


St Peter's Church, Old Woking, 1200-1500, Surrey, England, The Ryde Window of St Peter's Church, Restoration, 2005.


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Moons and Jupiter

Galilean moons of Jupiter, Earth's moon, a star
The troves, the treasures of visions vast afar
Majestic be the wavering rising pulse of light
A jeweled dawning held this summer night.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Moons and Jupiter, Astronomy Picture of the Day, July 14, 2009, Credit: Anne Riou, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090714.html


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Sweet Summer

The thirst of trees, grass and flowers
Answered by days of Summer showers
Wet leaves and blooms glisten in the sun
So fresh this day with God's work done
The feel of grass now new below my feet
A gentle wind blows with fragrance sweet
Fountain waters in libation flowing free
Heed I to the rippling water, a symphony
A rose in bloom my hand to hold
Sweet Summer musings I enfold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Sweet Summer, Oil on canvas, 1912, John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917.


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Caverns of the Mind

Caverns of the mind
the abyss of thought and deed
awaken the soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

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When The Sky Is Gray

When the sky is gray
heaven's calling song is sung
for the coming light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Gray Sky, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, www.apogeeart.com


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Awakening

This moment this mist
the awakening of day
and the night's repose.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


This moment this mist, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, www.apogeeart.com


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Liebestod

Passion's pulse in command
Piano keys await your hand
Sounding this array of emotion
Fingers set in waves of motion
God, Truth, Power, Love and Grace
Known with each finger placed
Piano keys voice spirit’s calling plea
Presence, reflections, lyrical reverie
Gloria Patri be the praise, the claim
Held is this grandeur in your name.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Performance Extraordinaire

Carnegie Room Concerts
Soiree Society of the Arts
July 11, 2009
Nyack, New York

In Tribute to

Yashar Yaslowitz
Pianist


With loving gratitude,

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate

Music is the poetry of emotion
And poetry is the voice of music.


Liebestod, Richard Wagner , 1813-1883, Franz Liszt, 1811-1886.


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Daunting Echoes

Vanquish this dissonance
Hush this cacophony upon soul
Love's call though silent
Resounds with longing
Love's call though silent
Echoes a lament
Within this stillness
The call of what once was
Within this emptiness
The fullness of despair
Daunting echoes
Too long have you reigned
Silenced be your sovereignty.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Study of Guinevere for Sir Lancelot in the Queen's Chamber, 1857, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British, 1828 - 1882.

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Weathered Mighty Oak

Deep rooted and held

Your branches like arms reach out
From the heart and depths of earth
Weathered mighty oak
Of many known moons
Healed from the wounds
Of harsh seasons past
Strong, deliberate
Confident in your determined pose
Enfolding the winds and light
Of this noon hour
Weathered mighty oak.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


A Study of an Oak Tree, c. 1638, Black chalk, pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on white paper,
Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682, British Museum.

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I in its Presence

Earth and plant
I in its Presence
Life abundant eternal
Warming sun and rain
I in its Presence
Life abundant eternal
Gratitude and purpose
I in its Presence
Life abundant eternal
Labor and harvest
I in its Presence
Life abundant eternal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



The Harvester, 1880-81, oil on canvas, Julien Dupre, 1851-1910, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV.


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A Tree That Once Was

Sitting upon a tree that once was
Looking to the pink and gray capped clouds
Seeing shades of green in trees of many moons
Watching the sway of young bamboo
Hearing the flowing pond
And the sound of children at play
So gentle is the wind
And cool is this evening new
Sitting upon a tree that once was.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Photo, Weathered Wood Bench, courtesy of: http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/decorating/patio-ideas20.htm


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Graceful Bow and Sway

Bamboo in graceful bow and sway

Holding the sun’s light in brilliant verdant array
Dancing shadows of supple canes I to behold
Among the lithe and lush leaves touches of gold
A late afternoon, gifts of an early summer day
The wind, the robin’s song and bamboo canes at play.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Summer Bamboo, Ink on paper, 1350, Wu Chen, 1280-1354.


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Secret Tree

Secret tree, a cloak of nature's wile

Blanketing the light you hold
What secret do you harbor in hues of green
Reflections upon still waters seen
Dipping deep at water's edge
I step beneath your bough
Your secret kept shall be my vow
I listen to what you have heard
And hear I the whispers of THE WORD.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Secret Tree, Photograph, Karen Krinitz, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009.

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Albrecht Duer’s Melencolia

What confusion, deception, melancholy hovers in heart
From what innocence and faith do you depart
Symbols of knowing in great abound
What is yet to understand, what is yet to be found
Calipers, scales, hourglass, numbers, tools of many a kind
To measure space, time, be they symboled prompts of mind
Functions, forms, objects, tools at hand
What is yet to be within Spirit’s command
Crowned in laurel, wings at rest
Wherein lies the unanswered quest
What deliberation, question or pending plea
What hankering of heart for such melancholy
Mournful feelings known in moments of perceived pain
It is the wretched feeling when shadowed by the inane
Wings alight, mind in knowing pursuit, soul in Spirit’s array
And quelled be the melancholy that darkened the day
With calm resolve, heed I inspiration’s call divine
And newly decreed be joy, the knowing and doing sublime.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Melencolia I, 1514, Engraving, Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528.

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The Spirit of '76 - From the Heart of Freedom

The ravages of suppression known and heard
So from the heart of Freedom came each word
The First Amendment so marked to portray
That man free of oppression be the chosen way
In Freedom’s light and with Freedom’s call
Dignity of expression a right granted all
And if with doubt and query new
A forum open for a challenged view
Hold these words as Freedom’s choice
Let not Truth be a silenced voice.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


The Spirit of '76, 1875, Archibald McNeal Willard, American, 1836-1918.


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Opus Unveiled

This ever-changing firmament
I lovingly behold
Shades, hues, and tones
By the light enfold
Sweeping streaks of colors ephemeral
Etch upon the soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Frames of Mind, Opus 2, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

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In The Mirror

In the mirror my image in reflection
Is what I see real or is it illusion and deception
What am I yet blinded to see
That lies in secret depths within me
What word now upon my soul be a darkening veil
When it is resolve and faith I justly hail
Taunts, taunts, no longer to hold domain
Healed be this heart, I longingly proclaim.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Mariana in the South,1897, Oil on canvas, John William Waterhouse, British Painter, 1849-1917.

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Destiny Willed To You

In the echo of Spirit's call
Know I you shan't befall
In thunderous rain and in sun's brilliant ray
Firmament moving clouds of white and gray
In moments illuminant and in moments dark
You are destined to make an eternal mark
In lines and strokes of pencil, of paint
Upon surfaces ever vast
With clay, beauty and form
In bronze cast
I, in knowing and in faith ever anew
This, God's destiny willed to you.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Dedicated to My Son
Christopher Angelo Raccioppi


Pygmalion and Galatea, Ca. 1890, Oil on Canvas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824 –1904, French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism.

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