Happy Halloween

Ring-a-ding-ding
knock-knock
at my door
"Trick or Treat"
strange creatures
implore
Little people
in costume
and masked array
Happy to Thank You
for the goodies
Halloween day!

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Rose Marie Raccioppi

Sand Road

Sand road underfoot
Distant vista ever near
With each shifting step.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Sand Road, Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009



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Fallen Leaves

As I step into my garden I greet
The sounding feel of leaves below my feet
A quiet presence deep within
Calmed is the daunting din
From that mighty oak tree ever strong and tall
This blanket of fallen leaves, gift of Fall
Amber, red, orange and colors of gold
Trees mark time and a story told
Leaves alight and with winds flee
Season of change this Fall's decree
Torrential rain and south winds yesternight
Harken to the rising of morning's new light
The messengers of storm now silent of sound
Leaves, twigs and branches rest upon ground
Warming sun yet chilled be the morning air
October's gift this hour, sky so blue so fair.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Leaves, Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009.



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With The Night Rain

Each fallen leaf laden with the night rain
Their wind swept flight put to tame
A brimming blanket of leaves upon the ground
Quiet they lay, gone their rustling sound
Held still by the towering mighty oak tree
Red brown leaves on branch and bough high above me
Gentle Fall winds entreat each quivering leaf to fly
Alight their color array to sweep the gray night sky.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Oak, photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi


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'Tis Fall We Hail

Glowing amber be the sun such luminous array
As time beckons the closing of this day
A season of change within this moment now
Nature keeping its ever present vow
Brilliant gold, vibrant orange, ruby red leaves alight
Chilling winds and a distant sounding whistle to fill the night
The street lamp a halo upon my bedroom window
Shadows of branch, leaf, quiver and wake below
Sounding crickets call to this season's quest and quail
The moving rustle of gathered leaves 'tis Fall we hail
Dressed in lavish color each tree soon be bare
With leaf shed and bough and branch in Winter's knowing care.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent, yours is a world known to me
And I grasp at this meaning of Be
Light and fields, people and purpose defined
And I in plea proclaim do not confine
Bar restraint and perception veiled
Vincent your gift of knowing has prevailed
With awe and sighs anew your art so perceived
And blessed for the inexplicable conceived.


Rose Marie Raccioppi



Wheat Field Behind Saint-Paul Hospital with a Reaper, Painting, Oil on Canvas, Saint-Rémy, September, 1889, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Europe,
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890.

Vincent Van Gogh perceived the vibrating energy of light and life itself. He captured the quivering, pulsing fields that embraced his vision. All was moving, all was dimension, all was effect. I experienced the deepest of pleasure in being present with Van Gogh's original works on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

Do visit: Original Art Studio: . . . how you tried to set them free . . .
a tribute to Vincent Van Gogh
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YouTube - Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Don McLean
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Quell Not

Quell not these passion aflame afire
The yearnings of this soul's desire
Know I this moment in living need
Creation and Being my heart to heed
Brush, paint, inner whispers heard
And cast upon paper Spirit's Word.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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

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Rapture

This brush clean and bare

This palette filled with care
This paper stark and white
This easel touched by light
This quest a silent word
This heart a calling heard
Brush and paint in strokes bold
Form emergent to take hold
This dance of fire
Tango, passion and desire
Paint and brush yield and capture
Strokes of color, strokes of rapture.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Frames of Mind, Opus 6, Rapture, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com



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Each Rising Day

Fear and suppression no longer take hold
So be the glory of spirit and soul
Life and valor fill chambers of heart
From which anger and hurt do depart
God's power and reign within abide
Powerless be the taunter, the one to chide
Mind to fathom trove and treasure
Fulfillment and abundance in whole measure
The gift of knowing to mark each rising day
Beauty, grace and truth, blessed be The Way.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Norham Castle, Sunrise, 1844, oil on canvas, Tate Gallery, J.M. William Turner, 1775-1851

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Water's Lure

To these waters I proclaim
Protection in the Creator's name
Rain, lake, stream and sea
Upon land, mountain and all that be
Cascading, rippling waves of time
Waters roiling, majestic, sublime
Carried with ebb and flow
Ocean tides now high now low
Lofty heights of turbulent splendor
To water's lure I willingly surrender
And heard be the cresting plea
Revere the gifts of waters, ocean and sea.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Water's Lure, photo, PFR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009.

The Ocean
In Celebation of
Charan Surdhar
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Drifting Cloud

Drifting cloud of dark
Light to guide the ascension
Praise be arising.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Dark Cloud, photo, PFR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009.


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Frederic Francois Chopin

Frederic Francois Chopin

March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849
En Mememoriam
160 Years

Within his fingers the structure, the melody cast divine
Spontaneous, miraculous, with perseverance sublime
In solitude, weeping, pacing, he held to the music’s plea
Within his inner chambers conceived he the music to be
Variant, fluid, reverie, revelation’s quest
And we the benefactors of his behest
The sounding outcry of a tormented heart be found
In Chopin’s Scherzo, Etude, resolve expressively profound
Passion, devotion, unrequited love, of sorrow, joy, he to tell
And these the Preludes, Ballades, Mazurkas, we know so very well
The embrace of sensibilities and the sounding of creation’s call
Chopin, his Presence, his music, this moment, in celebration all.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Soiree Society of the Arts

Carnegie Room Concerts
Piano Performance Extraordinaire
by
Matthew Cameron
October 17, 2009

Frederic Chopin

Barcarolle, Opus 60
Waltz in F minor, Opus 70
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Opus 52
Scherzo No 2 in B-flat minor, Opus 31
Etude in A-flat major, Opus 25 No. 1
Etude in F minor, Opus 25 No. 2
Etude in E-flat minor, Opus 20 No.6
Etude in E-flat major, Opus 10 No. 11
Etude in C minor, Opus 10 No. 12
Nocturne in C minor, Op 48
Polonaise in A-flat, Op 53

Every fiber of self was felt during your extraordinary performance last evening.
The self was transported to the folds of the universe.
Your hands, the purveyor of beauty.

In loving friendship.

Rose Marie

"Matthew Cameron has, in the words of music writer Michel Le Naour, distinguished himself as a figure of "profound musical consciousness", and as one of the major pianistic talents of his generation. His playing has been called "passionate and poetic" and "masterful" by critics, and Cyprien Katsaris lauded his transcriptions and compositions for piano as "works of genius."

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Portrait of Frederic Chopin, Oil on canvas, 1838, Eugene Delacroix, 1798-1863, Paris, Musee de Louvre



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Bequeath Your Presence

Bequeath Your Presence
Within this soul
love’s call though silent
resounds with longing
Within this heart
love’s call though silent
echoes a lament
Within this stillness
the resounding of what once was
Within the emptiness
the fullness of despair
Are these the sensibilities
absent of God’s care
Ravage not
this body and spirit
Ravage not
this faith and trust
Bequeath Your Presence
Cancer no more.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Realms

Inner realms of thought
Constant change of light and form
Such wondrous array.

Mystical moment
A calling of creation
The pulsing Great Mind.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day
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By the Sea

The blush of the day
Sets its golden light
Passion in crimson strokes
Across the sky in flight

Quiet the moment
Yet ablaze in beauty be
I in sail's repose
Touched by the sea.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


By the Sea, photo, PFR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009.


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Sail I

Sail I to the sun's splendor
Sail I to the casting light
Sail I to the call of the waters
Beyond the dark of night

Sail I to the vistas of faith
Sail I to the depths of my soul
Sail I to the glory and grace
Beyond all life's toll

Sail I to uncharted waters
Sail I to horizons yet known
Sail I to each sunrise
Beyond life has thus shown

Sail I to the heavens above
Sail I to the dreams to unfold
Sail I to the questing heart
Beyond a story told.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Dulcinea

Passion and the light

To each his Dulcinea
The quest and the dream.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

"Dulcinea... Dulcinea...
I see heaven when I see thee, Dulcinea,
And thy name is like a prayer
An angel whispers... Dulcinea... Dulcinea!

Now I've found thee,
And the world shall know thy glory,
Dulcinea... Dulcinea!"

Don Quixote De La Mancha

Dulcinea, Richard Kiley, 1965, Man of La Mancha

Dulcinea, Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009.


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Harmony

Upon her face the light I see
My heart beckons a soulful plea
Her music I hear and known be my heart
From this embracing moment I shan't depart
In silent knowing I vow she be mine
And in this moment is defined all time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Harmony, 1877, Oil on canvas, Sir Frank Dicksee, British, 1853-1928.



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The Music, The Music

Accord
Awakened sensibilities
A divine frenzy
Colors of splendor
Sounding of passion
The music, the music
Keys, strings
Voice the moment
The quest of BEING
Embraced by sounding drama
Lilting waves of resolve
The music, the music
The calm
The crescendo
The cresting light
The silent spaces
The emptiness
The music, the music
And I in its embrace
In its beckoning call
In its sounding splendor
In its soulful search
In its grasping quest
The music, the music.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Soiree Society of the Arts

In Tribute
to the performances of

Paul Barnes, piano
September 5, 2009

Sean Riley, violin; Irene Florence Wong, piano
September 12, 2009

Michael Shinn, piano
September 19, 2009

Andy Feldbau, piano
October 3, 2009

Performances Extraordinaire.
Soiree Society of the Arts





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