A ROSE yet blooms...

A ROSE yet blooms...

shocking be the news
this ROSE yet blooms
misunderstood be the views
this ROSE yet blooms
deception and deceit
this ROSE yet blooms
pesticides and toxins
this ROSE yet blooms
lawsuits and trials
this ROSE yet blooms
chaos and disasters
this ROSE yet blooms
pain and loss 
this ROSE yet blooms
Creation's bounty ours to hail
beyond all illusion
truth and beauty ever to prevail
t'is the way of The Creator to call to soul
the bounty in praise and so paid be the toll.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

A ROSE, CAR, Collectible Clicks, @Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2019

An added word...

And there it is... the beauty, the delicate touch, and too, the thorns... one is to be respectful of what it is they choose to hold to... be it a trauma, an experience, that can rip through the core of our BEING. Go gentle with SELF... awaken to the beauty and the sacred call of consciousness that dwells deep for our awareness, our reflection, our resolve, our release from that which yet pierces through our pretense. This the way of the WINNING WARRIOR... the APOGEE Acu-Tone™ Paradigm.

A Cockle Shell… gifted to me …

as I hold this shell in hand 
felt are the many moons of time
the creating of waves at high tide
delicate yet firm, fragile yet strong
it speaks the silence and the roar of oceans
it holds the heart in stillness and passion
is this not an artifact of life and love itself
is this not the gift of waters vast and flowing
is this not the Creator’s offering of BEING
yes, whispers my soul… yes…

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul." W. Somerset Maugham

"Every production of an artist should be the expression 
of an adventure of his soul." 

W. Somerset Maugham

Is it

Is it brush in hand and thought in heart

From which this painting has its start

Where comes this call I hear as mine

Word, color and form these gifts of time

Is it the Muse that summons the soul

Beauty be the quest, beauty be the goal

And when in completion a work is to be

Is it the Muse I hear in joyful reverie

Is it Truth that anoints each new day

With the knowing path of the spirit's way

Ever present this reach to do and create

Welcome I Truth, the Muse, Destiny and Fate

God be known in what I receive and give

This be the decree for each moment I live

Is it when faith and knowing jointly resound

That God and the Muse so freely are found

So be it brush or pen in heart, mind or hand

It is to be in the Creator's fullest command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Dance of Light, APOGEE Vibrational Art,

www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com©Rose Marie Raccioppi

Dreams Enfold

we gave a cry and all rejoiced for this our birth complete

we are our first steps greeted with open arms

our first word that brought an admiring smile...

trace the years and their memories await anew

a montage, a kaleidoscope, of one's life view

sounds, impressions, of place time and moments sweet

where our dreams and our days come to meet

praise, punishment, joy and pain come to define

a life known as rightly yours, a life lived as mine

and what brings reason to pause this very day

but the wondrous Creation given by Life along its way

a sculpture unveiled and all in AWE and PRAISE

for what each has brought to their ennobled days

and then a painting, a poem, an endearing embrace

upon a time line of memories now they to place

decades of moons have brought mystery and delight

magical be this waxing and waning of Creation's light

and so this heart, this soul, in time's grasp and claim

be held in the spirit and glory of our Creator's name

be it of yesterdays or days yet, and dreams enfold

each new gaze, a breath, a sigh, be this our story told.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Dream's Enfold, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://thesoundinglight.blogspot.com  2013.

Beyond My Will

...libation sweet...

Beyond My Will

The moon shall wax and wane and so shall rise the sun
Beyond my will it shall be done
Beyond my will Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall
Trees in constant change, new, growing, majestic, towering tall
Beyond my will waves shall crest, the tides shall ebb and flow
From many directions winds to ever blow
Beyond my will these gifts of nature be mine
And I in the embrace of gratitude divine
And with thy will all be in soul known
Love of the Creator, heart's willful quest ever shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Libation, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013.

Beyond

beyond all mounting despair
be the knowing of the Creator's care
boundless be this cloak of Spirit's grace
within our soul eternity placed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Beyond, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, APOGEE Vibrational Art, 2012.

Divine Frenzy

Divine Frenzy in resplendent grandeur
The passion of life, the Creator's lure
Colors of galaxies and fervor within heart
From this majesty I shan't depart
And I with paint and brush upon canvas white
Embrace the rapture known within the light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Divine Frenzy, Watercolor, Abstract, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

Bloom

Known be the Creator's vow
Bloom upon branch and bough
This a towering and rooted tree
Leaf and light in majesty BE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Tree in the Park, photo: CAR, Collectible Clicks,©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010

Creator's Grace

Budding iris of blue violet tone and hue
Such splendor lovingly captured by you
With hand and heart 'tis beauty abound
And this within each flower painted found
Strokes of color, delicate, bold, in light cast
Be these majestic blooms in strokes ever last
Blossoms and Spring winds each in an embrace
The blessed touch of the Creator's grace
Vincent your gift of devotion here you give
Behold I the glory of those moments lived.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Irises was painted while Vincent van Gogh was living at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.

Irises, 1889, Oil on canvas, Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.

In Splendor Ever Shown

Without any effort on my part
This day shall end and another to start
Without any effort, nothing to be done
Yet the moon shall wax and wane and so shall rise the sun
Without any effort, Spring, Summer, Winter Fall
Trees in constant change, new, growing, majestic, towering tall
Without any effort, the tides shall ebb and flow
From many directions winds to ever blow
Without any effort, these gifts of nature be mine
And I in the embrace of gratitude sublime
Without any effort, all this be in heart known
The love of the Creator in splendor ever shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Green Wheat Field with Cypress, Saint-Rémy, Vincent van Gogh, June 1889. Oil on canvas.
Narodni Gallery, Prague, Czechia




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Golden Mean

I see within the form and structure of this hand
The calling of the Creator's command
Passion's pursuit be known by thee
In the grace of a shell, a bloom, a branching tree
The golden mean proportion divine
In this hand and in a growing vine
In galaxies, spiraling light and star
This the Creator's beauty at hand and in vistas far.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Image: Red Ice Creations, http://www.redicecreations.com

And Proclaimed

With poet's pen a quest to write
Of the eternal now be shadow or light
With paint, brush, color and motion
In glory be this hour's devotion
'Tis the Muse whose call you heed
And proclaimed is the Creator's creed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Tyger (Plate 42), 1794/ca. 1825
William Blake (British, 1757–1827)
Relief etchings printed in orange-brown ink, heightened with watercolor and shell gold, with hand-painted decorative borders.

Winter Sky

Changing firmament to behold
Hues and tones by the light enfold
Beauty be this Winter sky above
Ever the strokes of the Creator's love
Light within shadow there to cast
Vista of splendor ever vast.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


When The Sky Is Gray, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com


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Sunflower Gifted To Me

The sun and moon I do see
In this sunflower gifted to me
Stars and galaxies be they too shown
Within your petaled universe all is known
Bloom ablaze with shimmering light of gold
Within each seed the Creator's story told.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Sunflower, Photo: Dede Amescua, http://www.suburbanhomesteader.com




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