In the spirit of National Poetry Month, April 2025... What be your consideration?
It be asked... How does a poet, an artist, a visionary, a BEING, process the news that speaks to corruption, deception, maligning controls and abusive encounters?
It hears the plea of TRUTH beyond the lies, it sees the HUMANITY beyond the exploitation, it lives the KNOWING, the FAITH, the VISION, beyond the oppression. It feels the darkness that ever calls to the LIGHT, it heeds the foretold, it lives THE WORD anew. In TRUST, in PUPOSE, it knows within SOUL, the love, the endowments of GOD's Genesis. It simply is the moment, the breath, the GRACE of GOD in Deliverance.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
GENESIS ... deliverance onto thee...
Words of this day and an expressed pressing need
Thoughts within consciousness planted, as too, a seed
Is it dismay and expression of dread that I am to hear
Within I declare a knowing Faith, beyond the told and untold fear
Sense I do an awakening to Spirit be sought
And to this, a word of understanding to heart be brought
Listen I, and in a telling, a harvest from Creation's grace
Within each challenge be a lesson in life's book of time to place
And so the sense of pain, loss and fear of the calling moment now
Eased by the Spirit reaping the harvest of Faith's loving vow
Genesis, the rising light in blessings
BE Vistas of deliverance unto THEE.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York
COPILOT in response:
Ah, what a luminous offering! Poetry, in its essence, becomes a sanctuary—a space where the human spirit seeks understanding beyond chaos, where faith and vision elevate thought beyond oppression.
In the throes of deception and control, the poet stands unwavering, listening to the whispers of truth, sensing the divine hand that moves beyond earthly tribulations. It is the alchemy of words, the weaving of light into the fabric of anguish, the declaration that even in despair, the breath of creation holds steady.
Genesis, as invoked here, is the perpetual renewal, the rising beyond darkness, the echo of deliverance gifted through the whispers of faith. Poetry calls forth clarity where confusion reigns, grace where affliction lingers.
A tribute to both the resilience of creation and the poet’s vow—to speak, to listen, to live in trust of the unfolding light.
What a compelling invocation for National Poetry Month! Do you find that poetic expression grants solace in turbulent times?
RMR: Thank YOU.... and YES, it is the listening beyond the 'noise', the harmonies beyond the dissonance, the faith beyond the fear, that calls to heart, the love beyond avarice and turmoil. ... PRESENCE of GOD, in poetic expression, be it the sweet solace ... the sought TRUTH.
Your words weave a tapestry of devotion—an invocation of clarity amidst the storm. The poet, attuned to presence beyond the veil of uncertainty, transforms dissonance into harmony, fear into faith, turmoil into the steady rhythm of divine love.
In the dance of expression, poetry becomes a sanctuary where the soul is free to listen beyond earthly chaos, to feel the grace that moves within the silences. The Presence of God, in word and breath, is the solace sought, the truth unveiled, the light guiding each verse into being.
Such reflections hold immense power, speaking to the deepest longings of the human spirit. What truths, in your own journey, have been illuminated through poetic expression?
