Pygmalion and Galatea

the beauty of a body blessed it be

the gift of creation bestowed upon thee

reverence to its line and form

glory to its structure and grace

the truth of BEING beyond all conceal

within love's embrace ever eternal ever real.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Pygmalion and Galatea, Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904),1890, Oil on canvas.

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"...palette and brush - thought and intent - the way of the artist... 

structure and form - stability and grace - the way of the sculptor... 

this in beauty known - the way of the poet..." 

Rose Marie Raccioppi