The pulse of 2025

 

The pulse of 2025 

~ may it be of power, peace, grace and agape love ~

... JOY AS ONE... 2025

Looking back to days now gone, now past

Looking to the future, days new, days vast

This NOW, what we perceive it to be

A choice ever held by a you, by a me

Many a decision, ours to reach, to make

From the domains of thought and vision we partake

A mind with purity of purpose, intent and direction

Is itself life's questing passion and perfection

Shaper we are of each yesterday and a tomorrow to come

We with the MAKER, our will as JOY as ONE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

Image: Janus

In Roman mythology, Janus (or Ianus; "archway") was the

god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings.

His most prominent remnant in modern culture is his namesake,

the month of January, which begins the new year.

NEW TIDINGS 2025

This New Year to unfold

Its gifts in full yet to behold

For this moment in grace known

For the grandeur of nature ever shown

For the snows of Winter soon to blanket all

For the budding of life Spring to call

For the beauty Summer brings to you

For the splendor each Fall in brilliant hue

Signs, markings, the stars, the zodiac to chart

The NOW in Presence, each vision bears its start

The moment, day and passing year

In gratitude for life evermore dear

A knowing of an inner spirit of calm

Love and faith shielding all from harm

Cold be winter's winds now that blow

Upon my face sun's warming glow

In joyful reverence this day gifted new

Creation's love, praise and favor on to you

What be the Light that you in heart hold dear

Bring these supernal visions to this, A New Year.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

NEW YEAR, 2021

To the NEW YEAR

2021

JOY as ONE

Looking back to days now gone, now past
Looking to the future, days new, days vast
This NOW, what we perceive it to be
A choice ever held by a you, by a me
Many a decision, ours to reach, to make
From the domains of thought and vision we partake
A mind with purity of purpose, intent and direction
Is itself life's questing passion and perfection
Shaper we are of each yesterday and a tomorrow to come
We with the MAKER, our will as JOY as ONE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Image: Janus
Roman Republican Janus coin, c. 225-212 B.C.

In Roman mythology, Janus (or Ianus; "archway") was the
god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings.
His most prominent remnant in modern culture is his namesake,
the month of January, which begins the New Year.

~ 

Our Birth Eternal ... 2018

Within the age, the century, the decade, the year, the day, the moment...

Be it a myth... be it an ancient story retold...

 is it not of spirit,  of faith,  of a knowing wise,  

that LIFE is CREATION, and BREATH,  

the receiving the giving… 

as we embrace what IS,  as Inspired Spirit, 

so be the SELF and Purpose known. 

2018 BE our Birth Eternal… 

to purpose, to the very breath of receiving and giving, 

to the depths of JOY in BEING.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Tides of Time - A New Year... Onto family and friends near and far

The tides of time ever they be

Hearts to hearts across many a sea

Each moment past and yet to come

With God's Will all shall be done

And we in love's embrace across a distant vast

Our grace be ever in blessings cast

Upon the sands of time love be known

Upon our souls love be shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

Happy 2014 ~ The NOW of Time Eternal

Happy 2014

The NOW of Time Eternal

how many notes need be played
before you are the music
how many brush strokes need be made
before you are the art
how many movements need be complete
before you are the dance
how many lines need be written
before you are the poem
how many thoughts need be expressed
before you are the WORD
how many visions need be manifest
before you are the creation
how many breaths need be known
before you are the NOW
the NOW of Time Eternal... Happy 2014.


Rose Marie Raccioppi 
Poet Laureate 
Orangetown, New York 

Image: Courtesy Google Search.

Janus ~ Our Will As ONE

Looking back to days now gone, now past
Looking to the future, days new, days vast
This NOW, what we perceive it to be
A choice ever held by a you, by a me
Many a decision, ours to reach, to make
From the threads of thought and vision we partake
A mind with purity of purpose, intent and direction
Is itself life's questing perfection
Shaper we are of each yesterday and a tomorrow to come
We with the MAKER, our will as ONE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York


Image: Janus
Roman Republican Janus coin, c. 225-212 B.C.
www.vroma.org/.../ janus_vienna.jpg

In Roman mythology, Janus (or Ianus; "archway") was the

 god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings.

His most prominent remnant in modern culture is his namesake, 

the month of January, which begins the new year.

...and so it now is...

Blessings

Peace

Love

To Unfold

This new year to unfold

Its gifts yet to behold
For this moment in grace known
For the grandeur of nature ever shown
For the snows of Winter now blanketing all
For the budding of life Spring to call
For the beauty Summer brings to you
For the splendor each Fall in brilliant hue
Signs, markings, the stars, the zodiac to chart
The NOW in Presence, each vision its start
The moment, day and passing year
In gratitude for life evermore dear
A knowing of an inner spirit of calm
Love and faith shielding me from harm
Cold be winter's winds now that blow
Upon my face sun's noon warming glow
In joyful reverence this day gifted new
Creation's love, praise and favor on to you.


Rose Marie Raccioppi



Zodiac
http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/astrology/aries.htm

Zodiac denotes an annual cycle of twelve stations along the ecliptic, the apparent path of the sun across the heavens through the constellations that divide the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude. The zodiac is recognized as the first known celestial coordinate system. Babylonian astronomers developed the zodiac of twelve signs. The etymology of the term zodiac is that it comes from the Latin zōdiacus, from the Greek ζῳδιακός [κύκλος], meaning "circle of animals", derived from ζῴδιον, the diminutive of ζῷον "animal". However, the classical Greek zodiac also includes signs (also constellations) that are not represented by animals (e.g., Aquarius, Virgo, Gemini and for some Libra). Another suggested etymology is that the Greek term is cognate with the Sanskrit sodi, denoting "a path", i.e., the path through which the Sun travels.

Tappan poet designated as 1st 'Poet of the Year' in Orangetown

By Akiko Matsuda • amatsuda@lohud.com • December 24, 2009

TAPPAN — As an educational consultant, child advocate and environmental activist, Rose Marie Raccioppi has spoken at various meetings and workshops over the years.

Her presentations often started or ended with her poems related to the themes of her talk.

To Raccioppi, who is also a published poet as well as an artist, her poems are an important means of communication.

"All my poetry has an acoustical balance, which means when you listen to it ... it engages both left and right brains. And therefore, my goal is to leave something that creates integration," Raccioppi said.

Raccioppi has been designated by the Orangetown Town Board as the first Poet of the Year. Details of her official activities in the coming year still need to be finalized.

Town Supervisor Thom Kleiner said the recognition was well-deserved.

"It is certainly an appropriate honor for Rose Marie not only because of her work but her community involvement," Kleiner said.

Town Board member Michael Maturo, who initiated the creation of the position and nominated Raccioppi, said he was hoping to enhance Orangetown's artistic strength by recognizing talented people in the community.

"I hope Rose Marie's work will inspire people in town ... and make them realize that there's a lot of creativity in all of us," Maturo said.

Raccioppi, a mother of three grown children, started her career as a schoolteacher but later decided to dedicate her skills and talents as a private educational consultant. One of her focuses has been to work with children with learning disabilities, based on her belief that they are differently-abled, not disabled.

Raccioppi said her breast cancer diagnosis 26 years ago was a moment of awakening, prompting her to shift priorities in her life.

"I felt that I faced death, and now I was going to face life in its entirety," Raccioppi said. "That gave me permission to fully embrace and do what was in my heart and soul."

She has been widely recognized for her community service, her work as an educator, and her leadership benefitting children and families with special needs.

Raccioppi said, as the poet of the year, she was thinking about creating a spot in a public space where she can post a monthly poem as well as accepting poems from the public.

"I want the poetry for the people to be a spontaneous expression to represent their passion, to represent what they think whatever their plea is, whatever their absolute joy is. Poetry is everything and anything," Raccioppi said. "I believe, if we reflect, if we are willing to record, we begin to get a sense of priority and direction."

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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