Following the Coppers...

Following the Coppers…

His focused, discerning lens of light

Catching moments in stillness, moments in flight

Form, structure, color, beauty to behold

The glory of Creation’s story be it told

Wings that flutter in soaring splendor divine

Touched be this abiding soul, abiding soul mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown New York

Following the Coppers, Bronze Copper Butterflies, Rick Bunting, 

Nature Photographer Extraordinaire, 2018.

80 be the times around...

When one lives with purpose fulfilled...

years continue to be the NOW of JOY...

80 be the times around...

The youth of years I do feel

JOY and grace ne'er conceal

Time brings counsel divine

To this abiding soul of mine

Hold wise I the way of the heart

From love's embrace ne'er depart

This day in blessings of light and love

Feel I the wondrous of heavens above

On this earth in gratitude I do live

Blessed I am to receive, to give.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate 

Orangetown, New York

Majesty's Calling...

Rick Bunting, Nature Photographer Extraordinaire, has captured the soaring flight, and the mating dance of the Bronze Copper Butterfly.  He states that the "engagement begins with the couple facing each other.” 

Majesty’s Calling...

So telling is the flight and fancy of the butterfly

In splendor it soars to bloom and vistas high

It faces its mate in nature’s array

To bring majesty’s calling to this hour, this day

With grandeur its wings in flutter be known

Creation’s glory in grandeur lovingly shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Thank You Bob Johnson for passing this on.

In Celebration of the 90th Birthday ~ Aunt Rose it is!

In Celebration of Aunt Rose... her 90th Birthday... words in tribute... smiles of delight heart to heart.

Happy 90th Birthday to Aunt Rose

For an Aunt ever special ever dear

With love known throughout many a year

This your day of birth in celebration

To you blessings in dedication

With loving gratitude for all we have come to share

For each gesture of loving care

Time may pass on yet memories do last

Upon this heart sweet visions cast

Joy wished beyond measured time

This for Aunt Rose known as mine

Joy for each day anew

Blessings and God’s grace onto you.

Love,

Rose Marie

August 18, 2018

The A R T I S T

A meeting with an ARTIST... words, visions, experiences brought forth... I listened, and heard the depths of purpose, the quest for fulfillment, the barriers perceived, seen is the genius, seen is the beauty, seen is the truth... and so I write...

The ARTIST 

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

BLOOM ANEW...

BLOOM ANEW

Heed the call, the plea, the petition ... BEYOND all oppression be there known...

     Beauty 
           Eternal
                Yielding
                      Omnipresence
                           Nurturance
                                Deliverance... from the roots the grace of bloom anew... 

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Bloom Anew, Photo: ©RMR Collectible Clicks, 2018….
delights within a dinning room.
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