MERCURY Retrograde...

Echo not the confusions of the day

Heed well the blessings of The Way

A force that holds its claim

Mercury Retrograde be it named

We in the grasp of its hold

Our story in delight be told

For the trickster can in joy be known

A new path, a new light, be it shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

At the Window...

The twilight hour has come

The day, the night as ONE

At the window a Dream Catcher there be

The majesty of light yet to see

A web to capture the thought of the day

A crystal to hold time eternal, the light, the way

Within all the deliverance of grace

A  D R E A M within heart to place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Dream Catcher, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

She shed her tears... caught she felt... liberated she became...Threads of Anguish

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

Founder/Director

The APOGEE Paradigm™

We each have been bestowed with our own special GENIUS.

I have come to know it as:

Grace Eternal Need Inspired Unity Self 

this known and fulfillment is lived in PRAISE.

The R O S E

Beauty in expressive bloom

Delicate be the petals

Folds of grace divine

Piercing be the thorns

Treat gentle these offerings

Such be the passions of creation.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Founder/Director

APOGEE Paradigm™

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And after the parades...

A smile in heart for the NOW perceived

From the words of soulful gratitude conceived

PRAISE to Our Veterans for all they defend

Sacrifices beyond what we may comprehend

In word and song, tribute, dedication, honor be heard

And touched we BE by waves of sentiments and WORD

Memorial Day, 2015, in community, remembrance and acclaim

PEACE, BROTHERHOOD, FREEDOM, called in GOD'S name.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo: Courtesy, Andy Stewart, Supervisor,  Orangetown, New York

A Memorial Day Service ~ Sunday, May 24, 2015

The sky an azure blue, the sun ever so brilliant, the American and POW Flags touched by the gentle wind. This the setting at the Walkway of American Heroes, Tappan, New York, Memorial Day 2015.  As I saw all those in honorable uniform, holding yet to service and vision, and heard the tributes, the gestures silently spoke of love of country, of love of GOD. And so it is...

A salute, hand to brow, a vision of freedom ever to share


A pledge, hand to heart, a knowing of sacrifices and care


A prayer, hand to hand in loving grace


Gestures they be, the knowing of God's embrace.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 


Poet Laureate 


Orangetown,  New York

MEMORIAL DAY, 2015 ~ To Honor Our Veterans

This in presentation at the Memorial Day Community Event, Monday, May 25, 2015, Lions Club, Lions Park, Blauvelt, New York at the noon hour.

Memorial Day, 2015

And what be this poet's plea 
But to honor our Veterans from sea to sea

To know that All and One are given in grace
And in gratitude be our care, our loving embrace
Stars and galaxies, vistas of splendor and glory
Within the secrets, the miracles of Creation's story
Stardust in waves of time and space
From which our spirit we to trace
Light beholden within our heart
From where love and freedom have their primal start
Known be the fire of the Creator's flame
And we the Presence of All so named
Words to hold to the knowing of heart and soul 
Reverent be our gratitude, our calling toll

And what be this poet's plea
But to honor our Veterans from sea to sea

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
And so 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.

And what be this poet's plea
But to honor our Veterans from sea to sea.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Alchemic Flame

alchemic flame
passions in expressive rapture
fire of BEING ablaze with light
the self in soulful splendor
this the sacred bonding
this the sacred bonding.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
APOGEE Paradigm™

Alchemic Flame, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

...and to an artist...

Ever to Proclaim

The soaring Spirit real
In revelation beyond conceal
This knowing light in TRUTH known
The grace of BEING in creation shown
The line, the form, in reverence held
Intention, purpose, destiny and divinity meld
The calling MUSE ever to proclaim
Beauty, Truth, Majesty in HIS NAME.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Founder/Director
The APOGEE Paradigm™

The young man spoke... I listened ... and in turn a word...

The Calling

Unbridled be your genius in its expression divine

The knowing, the visioned, the calling of heart and time

The grace of Spirit to hush the discordant claim

Binding shackles be they no more in HIS name

Blessed by the giving, the receiving, heart and hand

Beauty and Truth in Life's command

Unbridled be your genius in its expression divine

The knowing, the visioned, the calling of heart and time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Founder/Director

APOGEE Learning™

www.apogeelearning.com

Mother's Day...

Thank You Norma 

The golden light in beauty does bloom

The splendor of roses to touch the room

The magenta ray in orchids divine

This gifted to me from Spirit Daughter mine

And so shared this day in loving grace

Feel the love within heart to place.

Happy Mother's Day in blessings ever so sweet,

Rose Marie 

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We with the MAKER

Looking back to days now gone, now past
Looking to the future, days new, days vast
This NOW, what we perceive it to be
A choice ever held by a you, by a me
Many a decision, ours to reach, to make
From the domains of thought and vision we partake
A mind with purity of purpose, intent and direction
Is itself life's questing passion and perfection
Shaper we are of each yesterday and a tomorrow to come
We with the MAKER, our will as JOY as ONE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Ascension, Watercolor, APOGEE Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

JOY

JOY

from the depths of silence
heard is the resounding stillness
this soaring solitude of PRESENCE
and the birthing of JOY.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

The Birthing of Joy, APOGEE Vibrational Art , ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.