...these eyes...

What be these eyes but the light as perceived
What be these eyes but the seen as believed
What be these eyes but a window to the soul
What be these eyes but the morning sun of gold
What be these eyes but the silver stars of night
What be these eyes but the seeking of light
What be these eyes but time present and past
What be these eyes but visions distant and vast
For never be these eyes blinded to GOD supreme
For within depths of darkness divine light ever seen.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Raphael, 1483 - 1520,  Drawing of the Transfiguration, in preparation for the painting, 1516-1520.
 Photograph: Ashmolean Museum Oxford.

...these eyes...

   

                               What be these eyes but the light as perceived
                               What be these eyes but the seen as believed
                               What be these eyes but a window to the soul
                               What be these eyes but the morning sun of gold
                               What be these eyes but the silver stars of night
                               What be these eyes but the seeking of light
                               What be these eyes but time present and past
                               What be these eyes but visions distant and vast
                               What be these eyes but blinded of sight
                               What be these eyes but deep inner light
                               For never be the eyes blinded to GOD supreme
                               For within depths of darkness divine light ever seen.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Raphael, 1483 - 1520,  Drawing of the Transfiguration, in preparation for the painting, 1516-1520.
 Photograph: Ashmolean Museum Oxford.

behold the artist...WORD and LIGHT

WORD and LIGHT

the body, the arm, the hand, the finger

ever present be motion in expression

gestures that reach, grasp in quest

TRUTH be sought in intention and grace

WORD and LIGHT within heart's sacred place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Figure Study of Two Apostles, RAFFAELLO Sanzio, 1518-20, Red chalk over stylus, Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, (b. 1483, Urbino, d. 1520, Roma).

"Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino[2] (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael

Raphael

Haiku

soul of the artist
create in eternal quest
line, form and beauty.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Heads and hands of the Apostles, Black chalk, c.1514, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Italian High Renaissance Painter, 1483-1520.