Sunflower

The sun and moon I do see

In this sunflower gifted to me

Stars and galaxies be they too shown

Within your petaled universe all is known

Bloom ablaze with shimmering light of gold

Within each seed the Creator's story told.


Rose Marie Raccioppi


Still Life With Four Sunflowers, Oil on canvas, 1887, Kroller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890.

Brush and Key

The expression of sound with touch and stroke of hand
The embrace of a knowing in spirit's command
The call of the music the instrument to convey
Artist and musician, the muses at play.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

And to us it be known

hands in the creator's command
with brush beauty to behold
upon keys the heart be told.

on this day
6 October 2010
dedicated to
Serena Rose Emory

Vincent Van Gogh, Marguerite Gachet at the Piano, 1890, (oil on canvas, 40-1/2x19-3/4 inches)
housed at the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel.