The X Factor...

First Known Use of X FACTOR ~ 1930

Definition of X FACTOR: 

a circumstance, quality, or person

 that has a strong but unpredictable influence.

I have put forth the ABC's of PRAISE. Each letter offers an affirming word. The letter X bore no word. As I reflected on this omission I came to fully appreciate defining its meaning as the X factor...

the crossroad

the intersection

the interchange

the exchange

this the X factor

the target

the focus

the center

the claim

this the X factor

the vision

the risking

the quest

the discovery

this the X factor

the planning

the practice

the perfection

the performance

this the X factor

the outer possibility

the inner knowing

the BEING

the doing and the having

this the X factor

the juncture

the interface

the confront

the resolve

this the X factor

you the transformation

you the soaring spirit

you the eternal being

you the SELF crowned to BE

the word, the light, the PRESENCE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Founder/Director

APOGEE Acu-Tone™

The ABC's of PRAISE...

     

Ascension

Beauty

Care

         Divinity

         Eternal

         Faith

                Grace

                Harmony

                Inspiration

                             Joy

                             Kindness

                             Love

                                    Majesty

                                    Nurture

                                    Omnipresence

                                                    Passion

                                                    Quest

                                                    Revelation

                                                                 Spirit

                                                                 Truth

                                                                 Unity

                                                                        Valor

                                                                        Wondrous

                                                                        X

                                                                        Yielding

                                                                        Zeal

                                                                                                    In loving devotion,

                                                                                                    Rose Marie Raccioppi

A Visit to Aunt Rose

Thank You dear friends for all the prayers and loving intentions 

you have brought forth... 

heart surgery complete, full recovery envisioned, and so...

A Visit to Aunt Rose

The calm
The pause
The gratitude
Life holding to itself
The willing responsiveness
The heart in a journey new
Cleansed of its obstruction
Cleared of binding fear
Burdens lifted
The quietude of grace
The joy of breath
This pulsing a rapture sacred
This the benediction
PRESENCE known
A visit to Aunt Rose.

Rose Marie 

To see and feel the beauty of so deep a reverence 
for the renewed gift of life after heart surgery,
 is to witness LIFE embracing itself. 
Indeed a most blessed visit.

Rose Marie Raccioppi In Poetic Dialogue with BEETHOVEN: THE SYMPHONIES

Rose Marie Raccioppi In Poetic Dialogue with 

BEETHOVEN: THE SYMPHONIES

Christopher Oldfather, piano

Fredrica Wyman, piano

Carnegie Concert Series

The Nyack Library

Nyack, New York

August 23, 2014

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op.36.

The piano keys in sounding response

Echoes of the passions and pulsing of heart

Cresting waves of thunderous light call

Know this breath that breathes the lament and yearnings of soul

This ever mounting, embracing, encompassing pulse

Hear I colors and strokes bold

Hear I colors and strokes of gentle grace

Live I a canvas that sounds passion and plea

Sensibilities and touched is the deep knowing within me

I AM the torrential rains and the morning dew on flowers sweet

I AM the burning desire and the quietude of the midnight hour

I AM the ambient sounding of passions deep within my BEING

Echoes, echoes, echoes, of a breath's call

Hear I the interlude, that interface between receiving and giving

Frolic and fury in sounding expression

Feel I this dance beyond composure

An Awakening

A Liberation

A BEING in the breath of this sounding moment.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op.55 "Eroica."

Entreat

The engagement

The invitation

To the inner chambers of a sounding accord

Ascension to heights beyond the Earth's plane

Celestial winds and soaring wings in breath's refrain

Each piano key to speak the ever mounting quest of BEING

Hear I the black symbols upon the pristine page that beckons

Sound, sound, sound

Yes, a celebratory engagement

Sound BE this breath of soul's splendor

Heed I passion's petition for a sounding TRUTH

BE I known by these dedications divine

A splendor that sweeps

Sadness now in sounding resolve

Measures of silence

Measures of BEING

This crescendo of Creation made known

Shed I the cloak of despair and don the royal robes of resolve

Each note in revelation, in heart's chambers heard

The music, the music, the music, resounding breath of BEING.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

The Night

The night begets the dawning

The dawning begets the rising sun

A moment of divinity when dark and light are ONE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

The Night, Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, www.apogeeart.com

Passions Bold ~ Frames of Mind ~ Opus 6

Tones, textures, treasure of time

Passions bold, lyrical and gracefully divine

Sounding brush strokes of the perceived

Color, form, in expressions conceived

Drama, musical portraits in soulful splendor

To the artistry of ALL in sweet surrender

Breath, heart and light, this beckoning to heed

The music, colors pulsing, 'tis the Creator's creed

Hear I the canvas in tones of passion and reflection

Touching all sensibilities in sounding perfection.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

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

The News is reported ... a loss ... and a plea is heard...

Grant not power to these demons of dark
Hush hush their haunts erase their mark
Be free of judgments and reprisals cruel
Truth and Spirit of Self in light anew to rule
Addict me not to a false quieting of the pain I feel
Make the liberation from a shadowed self a beauty real
Mask not these agonies of the abiding soul
No longer allow deception to demand a toll
Pay not the price of life relegated to sorrow
Live the promise held within each tomorrow
Depression be not a donned cloak of despair
Hold the Faith yet borne of God's loving care
The gift of life and power of will in your story be  told
Hail each breath,  the cleansing, 'tis the alchemist's gold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

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And so let us all be open to hear the "words and ideas" 

that we are yet to reveal to ourselves for the deepest of liberation. 

Robin Williams

His life in GLORY shared
In his way of splendor was his care
Selfless giving and loving PRAISE
This be the gift of his knowing ways

A smile remains in heart
From his memory I shall not depart.

PEACE dear Robin.

Robin Williams, Bill Burr, and the profound impact of insightful comedy in a world steeped in insanity - NaturalNews.com

Hold Sweet the Ravages of Time

Betray not this body of mine

Hold sweet the ravages of time

As too, a diamond deep within the earth's embrace

The brilliance of light within this heart to place

Heed well the call of soul's desire

Jewels of passion's beckoning fire

Facets cut in reflections be they of time

Chambers of light held within this heart mine

In adornment be held the grace of light ever dear

And banished be the pain and the shadows of fear

The pulsing echoes of this heart be they heard

Revelations of light within THE WORD

Spirit's expression in this body beyond conceal

The ALL of light in TRUTH and PRAISE reveal

Betray not this body of mine

Hold sweet the ravages of time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo :Face of the Astronomical Clock, in Old Town Square, Prague. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_clock

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

The Ascension Perceived

Awakened to the silence that surrounds me
To the ambient echoes of the night
The song birds and crickets in choral sounding sweet
I each moon past and this day newly conceived
This the cycle of aeons
This the ascension perceived.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate

Orangetown. New York

A Night Serenade

Through the open window
In the distance be the train whistle
The rumble of wheels upon track
The thundering airplane directly above
The crickets sing
The silence rests
Gentle winds
Sweet be this summer night
A night serenade
Through the open window.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

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