To a Sculptor ~ God’s blessed command

It matters not how long it has taken
Nor what may need to have been forsaken
Created with heart’s divinity and pleasure
’Tis the soul’s light and heart’s treasure 
Known shall be the workings of heart and hand
Held as expression of God’s blessed command.


Rose Marie Raccioppi 
APOGEE Poet
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Pygmalion and Galatea, Ca. 1890, Oil on Canvas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824 –1904, French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism.

The Artist ~ In Dedication to my Son...

a purpose defined
aligned be the heart the mind
intent and action and so a plan
do what one must what one can
with valor and bold focus to reveal
what is illusion what is real
and so entered is the arena of life
to hearken to truth and beauty beyond strife
to hold to purpose and soul's vision clear
to breathe creation's breath banished of fear
to capture structure, line and grace
and upon paper, canvas, clay, expression to place
to bring the gift of heart and hand
to God's ever loving command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Pygmalion and Galatea, 1890, Oil on Canvas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, French, Vésoul 1824–1904 Paris. 

"Late in his career, Gérôme turned to the medium of sculpture. Between 1890 and 1893, he executed both sculpted and painted variations on the theme of Pygmalion and Galatea, as the tale is recounted in Ovid's "Metamorphoses." All of those works depict the moment when the sculpture of Galatea was brought to life by the goddess Venus, in fulfillment of Pygmalion's wish for a wife as beautiful as the sculpture he created. " Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA.

Destiny Willed To You

In the echo of Spirit's call
Know I you shan't befall
In thunderous rain and in sun's brilliant ray
Firmament moving clouds of white and gray
In moments illuminant and in moments dark
You are destined to make an eternal mark
In lines and strokes of pencil, of paint
Upon surfaces ever vast
With clay, beauty and form
In bronze cast
I, in knowing and in faith ever anew
This, God's destiny willed to you.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Dedicated to My Son
Christopher Angelo Raccioppi


Pygmalion and Galatea, Ca. 1890, Oil on Canvas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824 –1904, French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism.

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Pygmalion and Galatea

Line, form, structure, color, their call I heed
The workings of the creator's creed
A hand imbued with the divine
Holding to created beauty sublime
Agonies and angels, vanity and endearing care
Shield and step ladder and an ascending stair
Symbols, artifacts, the manifest desire
Aspiration, purpose and passion afire
In resounding silence the resolve is heard
'Tis the glory of art and the creator's Word.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Pygmalion and Galatea, Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904),1890, Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm)

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