“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you...” (2 Timothy 1:6, NIV) ~ Fibers of Soul Aflame

Fibers of Soul Aflame

The cloak of mortal clothing shed
Bared be the illusions and fear
Tattered threads of despair and desolation
Woven on a loom of derisive deception
No, this not the warp and weft of my destined life
This not the calling of spirit that beckons to me
The Great Weaver has given threads of silver
The moon and the stars, a vision clear
The Great Weaver has given threads of gold
The Sun and an alchemy for life to behold
The warp now declared in light, love and truth
The weft the ever present unfolding of gifts divine
The cloak of mortal clothing shed
Fibers of soul aflame
The Great Weaver heeds your destined claim

Your destined

Your destined

Claim.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Written for an artist



Drapery study with pen and ink, The Erythraean Sibyl 1508-1509, Cappella Sistina Vatican, Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564.

The Cloak

The cloak of mortal clothing shed
Bared be the illusions and fear
Tattered threads of despair and desolation
Woven on a loom of derisive deception
No, this not the warp and weft of my destined life
This not the calling of spirit that beckons to me
The Great Weaver has given threads of silver
The moon and the stars, a vision clear
The Great Weaver has given threads of gold
The Sun and an alchemy for life to behold
The warp now declared in light, love and truth
The weft the ever present unfolding of gifts divine
The cloak of mortal clothing shed
Fibers of soul a flame
The Great Weaver heeds your destined claim.


Rose Marie Raccioppi

Written for an artist


Drapery study with pen and ink, The Erythraean Sibyl 1508-1509, Cappella Sistina Vatican, Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564.



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This Your Day in Celebration My Son

This Your Day
July 10, 2010

An ever present call
An insatiable thirst
An embracing quest
'Tis the Creator's hand
With each line drawn
Each stroke complete
Each touch of the clay
The call of Beauty
The call of Truth
This my Son, your destiny Divine.


"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

Happy Birthday

In loving devotion to my son
Christopher Angelo

Mom


Study for Adam, Red chalk on paper, c. 1511, Michaelangelo, 1475-1564. The British Museum, London.


The Sistine Chapel, Il Giudizio Universale, Michelangelo

Possibility

Can I step outside
this window of perception
Are limitations real
or am I beset by illusion
Are these assumptions of reality
the shackles that need be broken
Can this mind know itself
beyond its defined experience
The very question sets
the horizon of possibility.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Possibility, Rose Marie Raccioppi, THE WIND AND THE WILLOW, Publish America, 2008.


Slave (Rebelling) c. 1513, Marble, height 229 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Michelangelo Buonarroti, (b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma).