Flame of FAITH

 

"And all shall be well and...All manner of things shall be well...When the tongues of flame are in-folded...Into the crowned knot of fire...And the fire and the rose are one." ~ T.S, Eliot

flame of faith 

no embers does it create

it burns

yet it consumes not.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Flame of Faith, Image, © Rose Marie Raccioppi, APOGEE Vibrational Art, 2012.

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I the Fire, I the Rose

 

I the Fire, I the Rose

the fire, the petals, the passions of creation

the light of the PRESENCE

brilliant be the towering flames

horrifying be its consuming fury

the rose, the gentle warmth of the glowing fire

the rose, the wrath of its piercing thorn

know I each as one and one as each

I the rose, I the fire

the passion, the pain, the PRAISE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Image: Courtesy of  Curtis Madden 

For your added enjoyment...
Fire & the Rose Are One - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Rf9IRmg60

"We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one "

T.S. Eliot

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The Petals... The Thorns...I the ROSE...

"And all shall be well and.. All manner of thing shall be well.. 

When the tongues of flame are in-folded.. Into the crowned knot of fire.. 

And the fire and the rose are one.” T.S. Eliot

I the Fire, I the Rose

the fire, the petals, the passions of creation
the light of the PRESENCE
brilliant be the towering flames
horrifying be its consuming fury
the rose, the gentle warmth of the glowing fire
the rose, the wrath of its piercing thorn
know I each as one and one as each
I the rose, I the fire
the passion, the pain, the PRAISE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Photo Source: Esophoria Mystery School

For your added enjoyment...

Fire & the Rose Are One - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Rf9IRmg60

"The rose, by virtue of its beauty, shape and scent, has become the most commonly used floral symbol in the West. Angelus Silesius took the rose for an image of the soul. Once the insignia of ancient Goddesses, it was revealed to be of cosmic import, a semblance of divine power in its feminine splendour. It is in effect the symbol of the Divine Mother, and thus symbolises the chalice of life and love that is the soul. To gaze at the heart of a rose is to contemplate the truest living mandala. To look on this mystic centre is to be in the presence of holiness. "The rose each ravished sense beguiles", wrote Sappho, who called the rose the Queen of Flowers. A symbol cherished by our ancestors that has been handed down over millennia yet has power to move our spirits."

Esophoria Mystery School

The Burning Paper

"And all shall be well and.. All manner of thing shall be well.. 

When the tongues of flame are in-folded.. 

Into the crowned knot of fire.. 

And the fire and the rose are one.” ~ T.S. Eliot

The body calling to its soul

A recounting, a recording

Words upon paper

And so delivered

Be the din of despair

The lament of betrayal

The echoing haunts of pain

Hushed they be 

By the consuming flames of faith

Burn Burn

The rising light alluringly alchemic

The sense of SELF newly embraced

This the Phoenix of BEING

Glory Glory hails the soul

The deep breath newly NOW

The deep breath newly NOW.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

APOGEE Vibrational Art, Flames of Faith, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

Flame of Faith

"And all shall be well and.. All manner of thing shall be well.. When the tongues of flame are in-folded.. Into the crowned knot of fire.. And the fire and the rose are one.” ~ T.S. Eliot

flame of faith

no embers does it create

it burns

yet it consumes not.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Flame of Faith, Image, © Rose Marie Raccioppi, APOGEE Vibrational Art, 2012.