A Garden Bouquet

           

             Here in my Garden ~ A Garden Bouquet ~  

                    in its array of beauty

                         in its abundance of bloom

                             in its season's call

                                 A PLANT in its expressive             

                                            Passion     

                                                    Love  

                                                    Aspiration             

                                                           Nurturance                  

                                                                                 Truth.  

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Photo: Rhododendron,
A Garden Bouquet, 
CAR, Collectible Clicks, 
©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2021

                          

Wellspring ...the Great Mind...

Wellspring of earth and the Great Mind
Creation, abundance, the bequeathed spoils of time
Waters and the light of the heavens above
Flow with life, rapture and divine love.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Wellspring, Watercolor, (modified), Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.

Gems of Labor

Abundance be and so the bale
Bundles of hay this field to hail
Purpose, a bounty be so claimed
For the spoils of a field gathered and named
To the farmer this be the season's delight
Final offerings from summer rain summer light
The gems of labor be they known
Upon the field they be shown
And so the fields now golden and brown
With bales of hay are regally crowned.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


with gratitude to a most dear blogger
Photo, Rain MacSweeney, posted: 09/17/09 on http://www.ocean-sunsets.blogspot.com/



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Ravage Not

Ravage not the land nor sea
Heed the echoed cry and plea
Heard in the crashing wave and thunderous sky
In valleys, plains and mountains high
Hold this Earth in reverent care
Protect our gifts of water and air
Take not in abuse a mineral or gem
Behold the wonder of each bloom, leaf and stem
Trees to flourish, 'tis bounty's call
The knowing grace of Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
Earth, animals, a you, a me
Nurture wise and abundance be.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

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ONE

Peace and prosperity, anguish and pain
The majesty of God, the veil of the inane
Look to this day with faith in thy heart
Love be the path, from despair do part
Streaming from earth and the heavens above
Enduring abundance and God’s complete love
No limitation upon thy spirit thy soul
One with God, One with goal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Saint Patrick's Cathedral, NYC, New York, Photograph, Patrick F. Raccioppi, 2007