Tides of Time - A New Year... Onto family and friends near and far

The tides of time ever they be

Hearts to hearts across many a sea

Each moment past and yet to come

With God's Will all shall be done

And we in love's embrace across a distant vast

Our grace be ever in blessings cast

Upon the sands of time love be known

Upon our souls love be shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

A PATH of LIGHT

A PATH of LIGHT to welcome our love
This from the depths of self and the heavens above
A PATH of GLORY be it known
This from the love within and in joy shown
A PATH of BEING to define blessings and grace
This from the pulsing within heart’s place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Path of Light, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

The Dance

The Dance

This ever present calling of the word

’Tis the heart that hearkens to be heard

Words that sing the soul in splendor and silence divine

This the dance of pen upon paper mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo Credit: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2011/nov/22/physics-of-writing-is-derived-at-last

S I L E N C E

A W A K E N E D

awakened to the voice of the wind
a calling to dance the silence
a calling to heed the whispers of the heart
this moment of breath in life's embrace
this moment of BEING in PRAISE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

Awakened, APOGEE Vibrational Art , ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015,

www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com

For inquires on works of art contact:

Rose Marie Raccioppi

rmr@apogeeart.com

Every W O R D...

Every word, by virtue of its sounding 
and silent letters, 
calls to heart its meaning. 

And those words of pain, 
prejudice, judgment, reproach, 
speak their letters 
with a sounding resolve, 

a call for transformation 
and truth of BEING. 

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

Thyself In Glory

From deep hurt and loss a web to spin
In threads of anguish caught this heart within
Soulful reflection and resolve to proclaim
In forgiveness and faith call God’s name
To feel the knowing, the purpose, the plan
Ever God’s gift to life and man
Free be this heart and lamenting soul
Thyself in glory to live life’s goal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Inspired by one who freed herself of her web spun.

Image: Flickr: Spiderweb, Ultra Sonic Photograpy.

Beautiful Thanksgiving...

Neil Diamond - BE... this Birth Eternal...

"...wings of dreams.." BE... Birth Eternal

 "... in search of the voice that is silent..." 

feel the heart, live the spirit 

BE the soul…

 Rose Marie Raccioppi

"BE"

Lost

On a painted sky

Where the clouds are hung

For the poet's eye

You may find him

If you may find him

There

On a distant shore

By the wings of dreams

Through an open door

You may know him

If you may

BE

As a page that aches for a word

Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

And the one God will make for your day

Sing

As a song in search of a voice that is silent

And the sun

God will make for your way

And we dance

To a whispered voice

Overheard by the soul,

Undertook by the heart

And you may know it

If you may know it

While the sand would become the stone

Which begat the spark

Turned to living bone

Holy, holy

Sanctus, sanctus

BE

As a page that aches for a word

Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

While the one God will make for your day

Sing

As a song in search of a voice that is silent

And the one God will make for your way.

Heartfelt words of Neil Diamond

This In Presentation... Camp Shanks Restoration Project, The Designation of Eagle Scout, Marco Amendola... IN VALOR...

In Valor

With Freedom's call, valor in praise be heard 

For the spoils of victory and liberation's word 

Hushed be the oppressive cry in anguish known

With Faith and noble deed in valor shown

This the dedication of those with freedom's vision held clear

Our gratitude to the sons and daughters whose sacrifices we ever to hold dear

It has been said no words can explain the wages of war we do spend

But for the freedoms and rights we are to defend

For those given to liberation and freedom's call

Blessed Be they who have given their All 

So let us with open hearts and grace

Live the divinity of gratitude within heart's place

Tears with loss of life we do shed and share

Yet know that in valor, souls soar high ever in God's embrace and care.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Camp Shanks Museum

Orangeburg, New York

La Republique...

The beauty, the artistry, the justice, 
the love of the FRENCH people 
will ever be Blessed... 

In prayerful devotion
PRAISE BE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Fall This Day in Tappan, New York...

Rain filled skies

Leaves in quiet repose

Hushed tones of gold and brown

The spoils of Fall to bless the ground.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

A YELLOW RIBBON

A Yellow Ribbon

The loss of a loved one ever so real

The pain, the lament, tears beyond conceal

The vision of rightful freedom held within heart

From which Veterans with valor do not depart

Many a war has time come to see

Ever held be the right to live free

This day in homage to lives now in heaven’s embrace

Each life, each memory within our hearts we place

And to those who serve may the vision be ever justly clear

YOU IN HONOR, for the freedoms you defend and hold dear 

Be it of gratitude and praise, a yellow ribbon upon a tree

For all that is given by so many that we may yet live free.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

The Yellow Ribbon across time: https://www.loc.gov/folklife/ribbons/ribbons.html

November's Story... setting, Tappan, New York...

Deep russet brown and touches of gold

This be November's story this day told

Glimmer of green

In grass be seen

As soft winds and setting light

Bring many a leaf to take to flight

Blanket of leaves cover the ground

Rustling be their special sound

'Tis a twilight moment gifted to me

This season of time from blessings BE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Moment of FREEDOM ~ CANCER NO MORE...

Moment of FREEDOM, passion in expression, light and shadow in complement, strokes of color in rapturous gratitude… yes, the moment of CANCER NO MORE… This a painting that dons the entry wall of the APOGEE Acu-Tone™ Room. A welcoming to confront, to resolve, to the ultimate in wellbeing. The SELF in honor of SELF…

the body may be ravaged and feeling pain

yet there be a deeper knowing beyond the inane

the spirit holds to freedom and flight

passions yet to be expressed hold to the light

a palette of color and a canvas await

brush and strokes lay open a gate

oppression's daunting echoes silenced they be

when willful be the Spirit set free

'tis this moment of freedom that beckons and makes its call

and known be the guiding hand of the ALL.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Founder/Director

APOGEE Acu-Tone™

Moment of Freedom, Watercolor, APOGEE Art, Abstract, , ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

And so it IS...

The grace of time in seasons be known
Colors in brilliant array in October be shown
Such gems of beauty in leaves of gold
Alchemic be a story told
Ruby red and bright orange in lavish array
Divinity to paint the day.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Photo Credit: John Raheb, 2015.

The WARRIOR Within

The WARRIOR Within

Pulsing sounding of heart
Breath and life ne’er depart
Reaching, grasping quest be known
The cry, the call for love be shown
Tenderness and care, constant be the refrain
Life and destiny calling its claim
Heed well the need, the desire
For expressed be the passion and fire
The questing soul holds to light divine
Beyond all constraint, all confine
The WARRIOR Within sounds liberation’s plea
The SELF, the SELF, the conceived destiny.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Founder/ Director

APOGEE Paradigm™

WINNING WARRIOR Program©

http://www.apogeeacutone.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-winning-warrior-now-proclaimed.html

Such Be the Gift

Such Be the Gift 

Touches of crimson on the dogwood tree

'Tis the play of color in this season to be

Each leaf holds glimmers of gold

Within, the story of days be told

'Tis Summer's end, hail to the Autumn anew

Treasures of color in many a hue

Such be the gift of tree and time

The breath of beauty, the pulse sublime.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York 

Crimson Upon Dogwood, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

The night... the dream... the creation ...

The night... the dream... the creation ... the flow of color upon the canvas ... 

the soaring of spirit within the heart ... and so...

cosmic crown of consciousness
light of the Omnipresent
reign I in the Kingdom of SELF
galaxies alchemic, majesty eternal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Cosmic Crown, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

Gifted to me...

Gifted to me a garden flower with love

And held be the beauty of earth and the light above

Petals of divine color and gentle grace

This splendor of BEING within my heart to place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

The beauty of the garden flowers you gifted me with hold much love and light. Here is a photo, taken yesterday of one, yet fresh and, indeed a bloom of beauty, onto you along with a HUG.

LOVED you are dear Jaci Carl.

Garden Flower, Jaci, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

The Counsel of TIME

I AM this moment PAST
I AM this moment NOW
I AM all TIME
For what ever was IS
Embrace I the pain, the pleasure
Appreciate I the awareness, the aspiration
Feel I the soaring, the silence sweet
Live I its trials, its TRUTH, its treasure of BEING
I AM this moment PAST
I AM this moment NOW
I AM all TIME...

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Photo Credit: Jack Dagley

The Sounding Sea Within ~ as featured in the Summer 2015 issue of Body Magazine...

The Implacable Sea

Live I the implacable sea

A flowing spirit lies within

Know I the tides of change

This the cresting wave of BEING.

thoughts that probe the depths of existence

waves that crest the longings of the heart

oceans that flow with the knowing grace of soul

perceptions from time eternal

this inner call that echoes from the core of self

ever present passion, quest, a knowing divinity

listen, heed the resounding implacable sea within

the light of mind, the sounding of heart, the PRESENCE of BEING.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate