The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript

Known by soul in splendor sublime
The meaning of symbol, and word divine
Ever in query, ever in search be this heart
From these gifts of wonder I shan't depart
Stars by day stars by night
Twelve rays, sun, moon, in flight
The hours of day twenty four to treasure
Twelve months, a cycle in full measure
Across the heavens above earth and me
Time past, time present, hold to mystery.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day
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The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
Credit: Yale University ; Digital Copyright: B. E. Schaefer (LSU)

Pulsing Moon

pulsing moon this night
this heart beating life's refrain
present be the light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Pulsing Moon, Photo: CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010

Moments now...

Moments now...

dark not be this night
at my door this light be known
brilliant gift of moon.

Rose Marie Racioppi


Moments now...Moon. Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.

Celestial Sea

The celestial sea, its echoes crest and sound
Wonder, awe, majesty of creation abound
The splendor of heavens far and vast
PRAISE to the WILL in beauty cast.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD: 2010 January 12 - The Flame Nebula in Infrared
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Alchemy

With rhyme and reason many a story be told
Of visions, dreams, conquest and gold
The questing soul the heart of desire
Passions, alchemy, flame and fire
No trepidation be there in this heart mine
For alchemy be the WILL of light divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day
APOD: 2010 January 22 - Millennium Annular Solar Eclipse
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~

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"Thy Will Be Done"

A feeling, a thought, its expression vast
A word, a line, a brush stroke, a sculpture cast
Awakening of mind and quest within heart
From deep within this soul I shan't depart
The calling of pen and brush be heard
With paint and ink so be THE WORD
In glory and in praise this day has come
Know I the joy, "Thy Will Be Done."

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Minerva, 1889 – 1890, Roman goddess of poetry, music, wisdom, and warriors (Greek, Athena), bronze sculpture, Norwegian American artist, Jakob H. F. Fjelde, 1855 - 1896, Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey.


Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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And the Child Calls and Calls

the speaker calls for the listener
the writer calls for the reader
the performer calls for the audience
the artist calls for the soul
and the child calls and calls
what is heard
what is read
what is now known
what do we yet trust
and the child calls and calls
what do we answer
what do we do
what do we plan
what do we yet dream
and the child calls and calls.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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The truth, the innocence, and the all-knowing spirit of life fills our first breath. Who and what answers our first cry? What happens in the moments of life that fill the years to follow? Do we become the sum total of who touches, who answers, who denies, who ignores, who accepts, who rejects, who encourages? What moves us out of the shadow of our own experience? ... commentary continued on above link to APOGEE Learning Enhancement Training Systems™.

Mother and Child, 1944-47, Carved Stone, Isamu Noguchi, 1904 - 1988.

And when we fully appreciate that "abstractions" are those particular parts, perceived in a particular way that have grown out of our experience with nature and SELF - we see all expressions as calls of soul, self or spirit, longing to be heard.

Within

Within
The touch of another
The winds of change
The promise and knowing wise
Within
Vistas near and far
The many heavens one guiding star
The echoes of moments past
The many lifetimes everlast
Within
The folds of life in great abound
This heart LOVE and PRAISE be found.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Drapery for a Seated Figure, 1470, Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~

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Words Of A Poet

Words of a poet set to depart
From one soul to another heart
Words, prayer, love and praise
Echoes of this life's gifted days
The yearnings, the glory, the vision, the quest
Words to convey passions' behest.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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Agnolo Bronzino

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori) (Italian, Monticelli 1503 - 1572 Florence),
"Head of a Young Woman," circa 1543-45.
Photo: Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori) (Monticelli, 1503 - 1572 Florence),
"Head of a Curly-Haired Child Looking Up to the Right"
(study for the Christ Child in the Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and St. John) Ca. 1527.
Black chalk, 12 5/8 x 9 11/16 inches.
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori) (Italian, Monticelli 1503 - 1572 Florence),
Head of a Bearded, Young Man in Profile Facing Right, 1545-55.
Black chalk on light brown paper, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (21 x 15.8 cm).
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Agnolo Bronzino, "Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View", ca. 1542-43.
Charcoal and black chalk (with stumping), highlighted with white chalk,
on white paper; some outlines stylus-incised.
Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts


Strokes, lines, shading,
This artistry of soul
Beauty eternal
Delicate and bold
Breath and life
Pulsing shown
In the touching, capturing,
Portraying of beauty known.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

To stand before such beauty, to be in the presence of such artistry,
to know that in this moment lives the art of centuries past,
is to live the glory of creation eternal.

On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 20 through April 18, 2010

The Drawings of Bronzino, the first exhibition ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572),
the great Florentine court artist of the Medici.
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Quest and Vision

Sounds, gestures, in word and song
The heart to be known does ever long
What words to say, what melody to sing
What is it that wills each word I bring
'Tis this life's purpose to be heard
Quest and vision cast in many a word
Paint, color, line and form expressed
The call of the Muse with brush caressed
Understand SELF, THE WAY, I to define
The Creator's Call within this soul mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Parnassus or Apollo and the Muses, c. 1640, Simon Vouet, French Baroque Era Painter, 1590-1649.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~
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Beauty

with purpose and quest
line and form in grace prevail
glory in beauty.

Being
Eternal
Aspiration
Unifying
Truth
Yearning.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Seated Male Nude (Study for the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence), 1565-69, Agnolo Bronzino, 1503-1572.
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On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 20 through April 18, 2010

The Drawings of Bronzino, the first exhibition ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572),
will bring together nearly all of the 61 known drawings by, or attributed to,
the great Florentine court artist of the Medici.

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Another

The tear of another, I too shed
From darkness I call to be led
The shadows of despair and dismay
With FAITH be gone this very day
With a GRACE gifted new and divine
Embrace I this moment NOW mine
And to another I with heart to give
My WILL of life to love and live
'Tis only what I in heart command
Be known to another as a helping hand
FAITH, GRACE, WILL and the NOW known
Light bearing SELF be ever shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Study of hands, Silverpoint and white highlights on pink prepared paper, c. 1474,
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.
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Luxuriant Waters Divine

Primal rhythms
heard within the depths of me
The sound of cresting waves
breaking at sea
Babbling brook
a waterfall resounds
The feel of this heart
flow ever found
The sound of rain
drumming upon all to hear
Assuring be these gifts of water
banish loss and fear
Flowing, cascading, cresting,
luxuriant waters divine
The feel, the sound, the ebb and flow,
blissful breath mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Ben Arthur, Scotland, etching and mezzotint, engraved by Thomas Lupton, 1819,
Painted by: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851.

May the sounds of water, wind, and our hearts, be known
to ever hold the light of love and creation.
Thank You, Nicola Cali, for this beauty shared.
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Depths of Darkness

Pulsing waves, tremulous flow
The shimmering dance of moon glow
Ocean waters holding to this night
Depths of darkness illumed by light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Memories, be they of glory or pain, are our depths of knowing,
ever to be seen in the light of understanding.

Photo: Moonshine, Ing Van De Vyver, 2010.

Labyrinth

For Charan

This labyrinth of mind calls to my SOUL
To reach the SELF, a heartfelt goal
Enter this path to a center place
Hold to this knowing, your WILL to trace
The circle, the spiral, a labyrinth does make
A purposeful path, a journey to take
A circuitous travel to the center DIVINE
Within, without, be this journey mine
Know I of this center, its silent roar
Within, without, my SPIRIT to soar.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Ritratto di gentiluomo, 1512, Rome, Italy, Palazzo Barberini, Bartolomeo Veneto, active 1502 - 1546, Italian painter.
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The earliest known Christian labyrinth is located in a church in Algeria, with the words Sancta Eclesia (holy church) inscribed in its center. As early as A.D. 350, worshipers entering the church would trace the labyrinth with their finger in order to focus their thoughts and open themselves up to the presence of God.

In the Middle Ages, many cathedrals in Europe began to construct larger labyrinths. Christians who could not make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem would instead travel to these cathedrals to walk the labyrinth as a spiritual pilgrimage, symbolizing the journey to the Holy Land. The labyrinth in the floor of the nave at Chartres Cathedral in France is the most well known of the medieval designs.

The labyrinth is composed of eleven circuits and is divided into four quadrants, clearly defined by a cross. The center of the labyrinth is a rose-shaped area for resting, prayer, or meditation. To walk a labyrinth is to provide yourself with a very personal experience. Some people walk with the intention of addressing an issue in their lives, others to pray and meditate. Walk between the lines of the circuit. The center is a place to pause, reflect, and receive insight. Walking the path back out of the labyrinth is a time for deep reflection and to consider its special meaning for you.

I have walked. Each step a loving memory. Each memory a living grace.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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