...m u s i n g... The Poet's Pen

 ...m u s i n g...

The Poet's Pen

This poet's pen with passion in heart

From which words have their start

A tree, a blossom, a water's flow

These the gifts of grace the poet does know

The music, the wind, a songbird heard

The poet so touched and offers a word

The rising , the setting of each day's sun

Beheld the splendor of the glory, the ONE

The spirits of song, of dance, of music, of art

From the poet's pen ne'er shall they depart

The muse of all to entreat her pleasure

Words of musing, received as supernal treasure

Heed I well these callings, these petitions of grace

Within the soul upon paper with pen to place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Sarcophagus of the Muses, 150-160 CE, Musée du LouvreFound on the Ostian Way in Rome, in Vigna Monciatti, in the early eighteenth century Rome Pentelic marble (Attica), high and low relief, H. 0.92 m; L. 2.06 m; W. 0.68 m Former collection of Cardinal Albani, then in the Capitol Museum. Confiscated under Napoleon; in 1815 exchanged for Canova's colossal Napoleon Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities.

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