Spring Rain This Day

Rain Rain

The rhythmic falling rain
The green flourishing foliage
The touch the sound the feel
Creation in God's grandeur real

Rain outside my window
Tapping at my door
I hear its sounding call
Rain rain evermore

Droplets of splendor
Upon branches budding green
Shimmering day light
'Tis God 's blessings be seen

I listen to its haunting
Chant and melody
And feel its loving grace
Deep deep within me.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Image: photocourse.com

March My Month Of Birth...

So much March this spirit mine

The calling roar of wild winds
The bite of cold and frost
The gentle calm and warming sun

So much March this spirit mine

The wet driving falling rain
The delicate mist of the new morning
The birth of Spring

The peeking green of daffodils
The promise of bloom yet to be
Winds of ever present change

So much March this spirit mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


LL Orionis: When Cosmic Winds Collide
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA / STScI), C. R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt), NASA
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020313.html

Chorus of Light

Happy Spring to All...

behold this chorus of light
daffodils in bloom golden bright
embrace they the warming sun
Creation and Beauty be they one
joyful be these gifts of Spring anew
a resounding delight bring they to you.

Much love on to you my dear Blogger Friends...

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Daffodil Chorus, Photo: CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Daffodils At My Door

this golden call of Spring in silence heard
the resounding bloom be the Creator's Word
delicate petals of color bright and ever so bold
this the Word of Spring now and yet to be told
daffodils at my door in silent whispers of Praise
for the alchemy of light of early Spring days.



Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Daffodils At My Door, Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Spring This day

...this mid day hour...in Tappan, New York


the bloom of Spring
this very day
white and golden jewels
in treasured array
crocus and daffodil
greet the warming sun
and lambent sky
hear the chorus
songbirds sing near by
behold these gifts
ever divine
the bloom of Spring
beauty sublime.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


White and Golden Jewels, Photo: CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Reverie

from depths of time
cresting waves of thought
of time past
of time present
pulsing passions anew
reverie
the crescendo of the soul.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Reverie, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Green be the Way... Happy St. Patrick's Day

GREEN be the way... and to all the blessings of St. Patrick's Day...

Nature's Vow

mountain side fields of green there be
on river banks as waters flow to the ocean to the sea
from Spring to Winter be there ever seen
budding and seasoned leaves of green
dew touched green greets the dawn
the harvest from nature's bounty drawn
in heights that soar a tree does stand
the splendor of green in sublime command
shades and hues upon branch and bough
the grace of green 'tis nature's vow.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

'Tis Green, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Sweet Surrender

what be this calling in silence heard
the Muse beckons colors be words
deep indigo shimmering light of a star
brought I to wondrous vistas far
strokes upon a surface pristine and white
from a palette comes the indigo night
sweet surrender and I to behold
the Muse calling in color told.



Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Sweet Surrender, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Phoenix Rising

awareness and change
phoenix rising
limitation to liberation
constraint to creation
doubt to deliverance
fear to faith
betrayal to beauty
treachery to TRUTH
so BE this... Birth Eternal
phoenix rising.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Phoenix Rising, Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

An Arrival

...the storm...

an arrival
from storming moments
from pain beyond understanding
from deception and false realities
from the daunting echoes of oppression

an arrival
from the din of judgments
from the cacophony of opinions
from haunting doubts and fears
from care coupled with resentment

an arrival
to the delights of Spring
to the blooms of Summer
to the colors of Fall
to the surrender of Winter

an arrival
to the majesty of the heavens
to the divinity of the moon and stars
to the splendor of the dawning day
to the beauty of the setting sun

an arrival
to the wonders of BEING
to the exploration of cause
to the power of intent
to the resolves of time

an arrival
to the embrace of SELF
to the WORD known
to the gifts of CREATION
to the SOUL revealed.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Light Behind the Storm, Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012. http://www.apogeeart.com

Two Colors

red
on
black.


‎..and so here offered ...silent poetry... color and form as its own voice...
as its own mood...
as its own expression...


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Red On Black, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Flight

...looking skyward...

a prelude to twilight moments to come
light yet present from the now setting sun
high above the towering oak there soaring be
a hawk with wings spread wide and flying free
time its ever present call and ceaseless flight
and gone the hawk and present the night.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Credit: Photograph, Peter Y. Chou: wisdomportal.com

No More

shackled no more for I am the wind free
silent no more for I am the thunderous storm
despairing no more for I am the dawning day
thirsty no more for I am lakes and rivers flowing clear
lost no more for I am the guiding stars
confined no more for I am vistas wide and far
hungry no more for I am bounty and harvest divine
this the awakened faith mine
this the awakened faith mine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Awakened Faith, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

...this day in Celebration... On Being A Woman... IWD

Holding to the Wonder

Aware of the Omnipresent

Feeling the Marvel

Living the Aspiration

Fulfilling Need

Words to define what it is to be a woman
Come from the special meaning of who we are
With grace we receive and provide the ultimate giving
With love we nurture
With question we pursue
With pain we give birth and revel in its miracle
With persistence we provide
We are blessed to be
The receiver and giver of life.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Reve de printemps - A Dream of Spring, William Bouguereau, 1825-1905, 1901.

On Being A Woman, Selected Poem, BARNES & NOBLE | The Wind and the Willow by Rose Marie Raccioppi, Publish America | Paperback, NOOK Book (eBook)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wind-and-the-willow-rose-marie-raccioppi/1100867043


In acknowledged Celebration of
International Woman's Day
March 8, 2012.

Line and Shadow

line and shadow
a knowing to convey
line and shadow
echoes of heart at play
line and shadow
the revelation real
line and shadow
beauty beyond conceal
line and shadow
truth and soul
sought by the artist's hand
so be the gifts of Presence
in divine command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

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

Upon the Farm Counter

upon the farm counter alive and green
the wondrous abundance of nature be seen
a grass so fresh its vibrancy shouts
this is what bounty is all about
harvest well plants that grow small
and those who grow mighty and tall
know that green speaks its language of love
offering to you its gifts of rain and sun from above
unto my table it comes to be
blessings and nourishment from the grace of THEE.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Image: Wheat Grass, Old Hook Farm, Emerson, NJ.

The Great Weaver

This ever present gift of time, a cloak we weave
Threads of many textures ever to conceive
Woven be the thoughts of love, peace and pleasure
And known be the blessings, a cloak of silken treasure
And if there be a torn and tattered cloak to bare
Know I the GREAT WEAVER with weft and warp of ever present care
With silver threads of light and golden threads of love
Weave HE will, a cloak of crowning grace, the firmament above.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Sky, photo, ©Cindy Dyer, 2009.

A Heartfelt, "Show and Tell"... Poetry, Art, Learning...

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Much love,
Rose Marie Raccioppi