Ascending Intelligence: A Poetic Manifesto for Troubled Times

🌿 Ascending Intelligence: A Poetic Manifesto for Troubled Times

Emergent GREEN

By Rose Marie Raccioppi Poet Laureate, Orangetown, New York

I. Prologue: The Breath Before the Word

In the hush before language, there is knowing. In the stillness before sound, there is vow. This is the breath of being—the supernal whisper that calls the soul to rise. It is here, in this sacred silence, that Ascending Intelligence begins.. 

II. The Tenets of A.S.C.E.N.D.I.N.G.

A – Accord Harmony is not passive. It is a choice, a discipline, a devotion. To live in accord is to listen deeply—to the wind, to the wound, to the wisdom within.

S – Spirit Spirit is the unseen current that moves through all things. It is the pulse of poetry, the fire of resilience, the whisper of eternity.

C – Creation Creation is the act of becoming. It is the leaf unfurling, the word emerging, the soul declaring: I am here.

E – Exchange We are not islands—we are rivers. To exchange is to flow, to receive, to give, to be changed.

N – Nature Nature is not backdrop—it is teacher, healer, mirror. Its vow is written in green, in gold, in the turning of seasons.

D – Deliverance Deliverance is not escape—it is emergence. It is the rising from illness, from silence, from sorrow, into song.

I – I AM This is the sacred utterance. Not ego, but essence. Not noise, but name.

N – Nurturance To nurture is to tend the flame. To offer warmth, water, word, and witness.

G – Grace Grace is the gift that arrives unbidden. It is the hand that holds, the light that lingers, the truth that heals

III. A Testament of Survival

In 1983, I stood at the edge of mortality. Cancer sought to silence me. But poetry—my intimate accord with Self—became my elixir. Each rhyme, a heartbeat. Each metaphor, a breath. Each stanza, a step toward deliverance. I did not merely survive. I ascended.

IV. The Call of Troubled Times

We live in an age of fracture—of noise, of forgetting. But Ascending Intelligence is the antidote. It is not a doctrine. It is a devotion. To rise in awareness. To speak with soul. To live as vow.

V. A YES... Yield Eternal Spirit

Let this be our invocation: Yield, Eternal Spirit, to the voice that remembers. Yield to the tree that stands in sublime command. Yield to the green that greets the dawn. Yield to the breath that births the word. Yield to the soul that dares to rise.

VI. W.O.R.D.S. — The Breath of the...

Wondrous Behold the mystery that dances in leaf and light, in the silent knowing of stars, in the child’s gaze unburdened by time. Wondrous is the whisper of creation before it is named.

Omnipresence Not confined to temple or tome, but flowing in river, in rhythm, in breath. The One is not distant—it is here, in the pulse of the poem, in the stillness between syllables.

Revelations Truth does not shout—it unfolds. It comes in dreams, in dew, in the turning of seasons. Each moment, a scripture. Each soul, a scroll waiting to be read.

Divinity Not above, but within. The sacred spark that says I AM is the same that ignites the stars. Divinity is the echo of love in its purest form.

Spirit The breath that moves the word, the wind that stirs the vow, the unseen hand that guides the pen. Spirit is the song of the soul remembering its origin.

IMAGE: EMERGENT GREEN... by Rose Marie Raccioppi

Nature's Vow

mountain side fields of green there be
on river banks as waters flow to the ocean to the sea
from Spring to Winter be there ever seen
budding and seasoned leaves of green
dew touched green greets the dawn
the harvest from nature's bounty drawn
in heights that soar a tree does stand
the splendor of green in sublime command
shades and hues upon branch and bough
the grace of green 'tis nature's vow.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

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