Firmament ~ Eyes Turned Skywards

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, 

for there you have been and there you long to return. Leonardo da Vinci

Ascending ever changing sky and light
Wondrous by day, wondrous by night
Ever present waves of color crest and enfold
In awe be this celestial sea of soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Leonardo da Vinci

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. 
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
 Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks (c. 1500).

Leonardo da Vinci

Seized by passion and a knowing goal

Soaring be this calling, this calling of soul

Within there be a questing command

And so summoned is the artist's hand.

Palette and paint he to hold

Lines, shadows, delicate, purposeful and bold

Portrays he grace and a beauty sublime

And gifted we be by such artistry divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

La Scapigliata, Leonardo da Vinci, 1508, Oil on canvas, Galleria Nazionale, Parma.

This Day In Celebration ~ The Birth of Leonardo Da Vinci ...

ac•ro•nym: ARTIST

Aspiration

Resolve

Trust

Inspiration

Spirit

Truth

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

In Celebration of his birth April 15, 1452

his genius
his gifts eternal

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo Da Vinci

In His Hand

In his hand 
A pencil he to hold
Lines, shadows, delicate 
Purposeful and bold
Portrays he grace
A beauty sublime
And gifted we be
By artistry divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 ~ May 2, 1519, an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo is known as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. Indeed one of the greatest artists of all time and perhaps the most diversely gifted person ever to have lived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

The Last Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (King James Version)

23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

24And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - The Last Supper (1495-1498)
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy

Of Another

The tear of another, I too shed
From darkness I call to be led
The shadows of despair and dismay
With FAITH be gone this very day
With a GRACE gifted new and divine
Embrace I this moment NOW mine
And to another I with heart to give
My WILL of life to love and live
'Tis only what I in heart command
Be known to another as a helping hand
FAITH, GRACE, WILL and the NOW known
Light bearing SELF be ever shown.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Study of hands, Silverpoint and white highlights on pink prepared paper, c. 1474,
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.
click on image for an enlarged view

The Artist's Hand

Blessings of beauty and grace ever sweet
Upon canvas, vision and Creation meet
Strokes of color, form, and light cast
Of moments now, of moments past
Seized by passion and a knowing goal
Soaring be this calling, this calling of soul
Within there be a questing command
And so summoned is the Muse and the artist's hand.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York



Study of Hands, c. 1474, Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.

Eyes Turned Skyward

Ascending ever changing sky and light
Wondrous by day, wondrous by night
Ever present waves of color crest and enfold
In awe be this celestial sea of soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth
with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been and there you long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Those same stars twinkle over other fields than these.

Walden, Chapter 11
by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Astronomy Picture of the Day, Rosette Nebula, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091202.html

The Artist's Hand

Love be his word to share
Expressed in bonds of devotion and care
Blessings of beauty and grace ever sweet
Upon canvas, vision and Creation meet
Strokes of color, form, and light cast
Of moments now, of moments past
Seized by passion and a knowing goal
Soaring be this calling, this calling of soul
Within there be a questing command
And so summoned is the Muse and the artist's hand.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Study of hands, c. 1474, Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.

In dedication this day to
Edwin Carl Caulley

Revealed ~ Haiku Reflection

PRESENCE of beauty
in line, shadow and light shown
soul, art, hand revealed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, 1508-1512, Drawing, MediumBlack chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk; some remains of framing outline in pen and brown ink at upper right (not by Leonardo), Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452 - 1519 Clos-Lucé [Cloux; near Amboise]).

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ac•ro•nym: ARTIST

Self-portrait in red chalk, circa 1512 to 1515
Royal Library of Turin

Aspiration
Right intention
Trust
Inspiration
Spirit
Truth

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

In Celebration of his birth April 15, 1452

his genius

his gifts eternal

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 ~ May 2, 1519, an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo is known as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. Indeed one of the greatest artists of all time and perhaps the most diversely gifted person ever to have lived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

Within

Within
The touch of another
The winds of change
The promise and knowing wise
Within
Vistas near and far
The many heavens one guiding star
The echoes of moments past
The many lifetimes everlast
Within
The folds of life in great abound
This heart LOVE and PRAISE be found.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Drapery for a Seated Figure, 1470, Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~

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Another

The tear of another, I too shed
From darkness I call to be led
The shadows of despair and dismay
With FAITH be gone this very day
With a GRACE gifted new and divine
Embrace I this moment NOW mine
And to another I with heart to give
My WILL of life to love and live
'Tis only what I in heart command
Be known to another as a helping hand
FAITH, GRACE, WILL and the NOW known
Light bearing SELF be ever shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Study of hands, Silverpoint and white highlights on pink prepared paper, c. 1474,
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~
and so the echoes of heart, soul, and quest, be heard...
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Eyes Turned Skyward

Ascending ever changing sky and light
Wondrous by day, wondrous by night
Ever present waves of color crest and enfold
In awe be this celestial sea of soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth
with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been and there you long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci



Astronomy Picture of the Day, Rosette Nebula, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091202.html

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Leonardo

A gentle strength
In line conceived
Presence and beauty
Divinely perceived.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo Da Vinci


Study of a Woman's Head, Silverpoint on greenish prepared paper, 1490, Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519.



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In His Hand

In his hand
A pencil he to hold
Lines, shadows, delicate
Purposeful and bold
Portrays he grace
A beauty sublime
And gifted we be
By artistry divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Studies for Leda and the Swan, c. 1506, Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519.

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Leonardo daVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)



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The Last Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 (King James Version)

23For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

24And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

26For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - The Last Supper (1495-1498)
Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy