George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue - Leonard Bernstein, New York Philhar...

Feel the pulse, the drama, the visions, the echoes of NYC 
in a canvas of sounding rapture...

Rhapsody in Blue  

The Sounding City

The hum of cars, sounding horns

Tongues of many languages

Bright lights, fancy clothes

Saturday nights in memory

This Manhattan reverie

Rhapsody in Blue

The sound of feet on tenement steps

The radio heard from next door

This and eternal moments more

Rhapsody in Blue

The running of numbers

The shoe shine stand

Police car sirens

Dancehall music

Yes, New York City 

Be it in reflections ever grand

Rhapsody in Blue

A vision beyond the alley window

Beyond what the street life demands

Rhapsody in Blue.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

YES, this the early years growing up in New York City... 
Manhattan streets sounding ...

New York City Be The Town

New York City be the town
A Friday fair just before sundown
Buildings built sturdy and high
Hold to the light cast from the sky
The warming sun soon to set
Brilliant be the light for moments yet
A bit darkened the river waters be
Gentle their flow soon out to sea.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


NYC~Friday Fair, Photo, PFR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

Bulbous Clouds - A New York City Moment

The feel and sound of wind now known

Papers loose upon streets

Against towering buildings blown

Voices in awe, humming motors,

Sounding horns,

Sirens screaming, an ambient array

As twilight and bulbous clouds

Betake moments this day

Such wondrous wile

These moments of sky

What forces pray tell

Be present on high

No answer to my query

Yet there be found

'Tis in nature's secret

These moments resound.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Bulbous Clouds, NYC, 06/28/09, Photograph, Collectible Clicks©Rose Marie Raccioppi.

take a look at this
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2009/06/29/moos.freaky.clouds.cnn


The pulsing passion of the Creator's Way
Brought to us this very day
In the moving sky above to see
Joyful wonder, our moment to BE
One with SELF, an embracing love
The WORD in glory shown above
The splendor of this sky we all hail
And blessed as ONE we shall prevail.