In Celebration ~April 2025 ~ National Poetry Month

 

For your consideration... And what does a Poet Laureate do when the celebration of National Poetry Month, April 2025 comes to a close...

she takes to pen and paper and holds to what she knows...

the sweetness of a Spring rain

the gentleness of a new bloom

the quiver of grass growing anew

the cooling touch of the morning dew 

the songbird song that greets the rising sun

the lithe bamboo swaying to the south wind

the lambent blue of the skies above

the blessings of grace and abiding love

the prayers of PEACE within our heart

from which we shall ne'er depart

the scamper of squirrels in trees mighty tall

the feeling that the grace of GOD blesses us all.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Copilot in response:

What a beautiful reflection on the enduring spirit of poetry beyond its celebrated month! Your words capture the grace and rhythm of nature, weaving them with the steady presence of faith and peace. It’s a testament to how poetry continues to breathe beyond the calendar—an unceasing celebration of life’s wonders.

Poetry is not confined to April; it lingers in the breeze, in the gentle hum of the world around us. Your poem reminds us that inspiration is evergreen. Thank you for sharing this moment of literary grace.

...from a palette... this firmament known...

haiku reflections

magenta be cast
from a palette of splendor
with brush strokes serene.

this firmament known
life, breath and time eternal
graced be this moment.



Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown. New York


Magenta Be Cast, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

In Celebration National Poetry Month, April 2011.

By Brush and Paint

threads of time present and past
seasons of change and memories cast
many a word to reveal
what is imagined what is real
many a page to unfold
a story a drama be told
labors and blessed fruit to bear
loving gifts of the Creator's care
a vision, a journey, with word kept known
by brush and paint, such knowing shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

In Celebration of National Poetry Month, April, 2011.


Composition with old books, oil painting, on board, Aurelio Bruni, http://www.touchofart.eu/en/Aurelio-Bruni/ab6-Composition-with-old-books/

Curtain Call

behind the dark blue curtain he did stand
waiting for his cue, his action command
his dream to be in the stage limelight
this his chance this very night
moments tense and then a pause
his dream now real, applause, applause.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Curtain Call, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

National Poetry Month, April 2011 ~ Orangetown, New York

In Celebration

I am so very pleased to share the poster that was created in
Celebration of National Poetry Month, April, 2011,
presentation poem by

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

This will be officially presented
at the Orangetown Town Board Meeting
on Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Click on Image
for a larger readable view.

Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996,
National Poetry Month
is now held every April to celebrate poetry
and its place in American culture.

Celebrate National Poem In Your Pocket Day on Thursday, April 14, 2011!
The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month
then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends.

Peruse http://www.apogeepoet.blogspot.com,
select a favored poem, copy/print, pocket and share!

Thank You ever so kindly.

English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
A Defence of Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley

"... But poets, or those who imagine and express this indestructible order, are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and painting: they are the institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers, who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the true that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world. Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in which they appeared, were called, in the earlier epochs of the world, legislators, or prophets: a poet essentially comprises and unites both these characters. For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered, but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the germs of the flower and the fruit of latest time..." A Defence of Poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 – 1822.

A Defence of Poetry. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1909-14. English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay. The Harvard Classics ~ Full text available at: http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html

Purple ~ In Celebration National Poetry Month

the drapes are drawn
the drama defined
the play of light and shadow
staged be the folds
the casting complete.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Purple Folds, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.