O N E ~ for an artist ~ a poetic dialogue in reflection

Hush the taunts and echoes of voices dark

Move beyond each defined limiting mark

Quell the daunting cries and laments of days long past

You the Creator of a destiny now in beauty cast

A summoning cry, an embracing call, a petition of heart

Line and form your behest of grace shall not depart

The light of soul, of stars, of the moon and the sun

Be they known ever within you as ONE

Embrace the call of hand, pencil, upon surfaces pristine and new

Respect the beckoning call of creation that pulses within you

Touch, mold the clay with hands, fingers that are in God's grace

Heed to the beauty, the truth, that calls from within Soul's place

Supernal be your divinity and gift of creation sacred and wise

Your BEING dauntless and knowing beyond deception and lies

The MUSE has come

Thy will as ONE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

The ARTIST ~ the alchemist's gold

A meeting with an ARTIST... words, visions, experiences brought forth... I listened, and heard the depths of purpose, the quest for fulfillment, the barriers perceived, seen is the genius, seen is the beauty, seen is the truth... and so I write…

The ARTIST ~ the alchemist's gold.

Grant not power to these demons of dark

Hush hush their haunts erase their mark

Be free of judgments and reprisals cruel

Truth and Spirit of Self in light anew to rule

Addict me not to a false quieting of the pain I feel

Make the liberation from a shadowed self a beauty real

Mask not these agonies of the abiding soul

No longer allow deception to demand a toll

Pay not the price of life relegated to sorrow

Live the promise held within each tomorrow

Depression be not a donned cloak of despair

Hold the Faith yet borne of God's loving care

The gift of life and power of will in your story be told

Hail each breath, the cleansing, 'tis the alchemist's gold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Image:https://www.ancientpages.com/

The wondrous in expressive beauty...

The wondrous in expressive beauty...

Inspired by the gem tone colors of Autumn, by the flight of leaves, by the shimmer of light upon branch and bough, by the alchemic grace of the season, by the touch of the wondrous in expressive beauty... and so I take to palette and brush ...

APOGEE Vibrational Art, the Sounding Light Collection, September Morn, ©

Rose Marie Raccioppi

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And when do you know that the artist within you is calling…

when every color sings its splendor

when every line is a pathway

when every surface is an invitation

when every configuration becomes a work in progress

when holding a brush a kingdom is known

when holding a pen a poem speaks its words

when seeing the light truth within beckons

when what IS entreats Inspired Spirit

when ascension, revelation, truth, summon the soul

when the moment is the embrace of creation

when the vision bids mastery

the calling… the calling… the calling.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

... and in turn a word...

The young artist spoke... I listened ... and in turn a word... 

Unbridled be your genius in its expression divine

The knowing, the visioned, the calling of heart and time

The grace of Spirit to hush the discordant claim

Binding shackles be they no more in HIS name

Blessed by the giving, the receiving, heart and hand

Beauty and Truth in Life's command

Unbridled be your genius in its expression divine

The knowing, the visioned, the calling of heart and time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

APOGEE Paradigm™

PULSING Grace...

...the poet is of words,

         the artist is of line and color, 

               the sculptor is of form and structure, 

                     the heart is of beauty in pulsing grace...

Rose Marie Raccioppi

And when do you know that the artist within you is calling…

And when do you know that the artist within you is calling…

when every color sings its splendor
when every line is a pathway
when every surface is an invitation
when every configuration becomes a work in progress
when holding a brush a kingdom is known
when holding a pen a poem speaks its words
when seeing the light truth within beckons
when what IS entreats Inspired Spirit
when ascension, revelation, truth, summon the soul
when the moment is the embrace of creation
when the vision bids mastery
the calling… the calling… the calling.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
The Way of the Artist
September Morn
www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com

THE WAY...

clay and stone 

structure and form  

stability and grace

the way of the sculptor

colors in revelation 

lines in expression 

strokes that summon the spirit

the way of the artist

echoes of heart

the calling of soul

word as the spirit of BEING

the way of the poet.

silence and sound

thought and mood

passion and pulsing 

the way of the SELF.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Oranetown, New York

J O U R N E Y

At this evening hour... An account, a story read of another’s life that ended all too soon… The story presents the person's own questioning of his life so young, so wanting, to be facing an imminent death due to the ravages of cancer...he, himself a neurosurgeon in residency, questioned what was life itself, its purpose, its pain, its vision, its faith... and so in reflection...

JOURNEY

BE there the impasse 


the intersection 


of words


of biology 


of physics


of philosophy


of behavior


of aspiration 


in an ever present questing journey…

BE I the questions, the exploration, the journey of mind

BE I the daughter, the wife, the mother, the journey of role

BE I the teacher, the therapist, the journey of service

BE I the activist, the advocate, the journey of vision

BE I the poet, the artist, the journey of expression

BE I SELF known, the journey of liberation

BE I AM known, the journey of TRUTH.

BE there the impasse

the intersection

of words

of biology

of physics

of philosophy

of behavior

of aspiration

in an ever present questing journey…

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

M O O D S

                          Moods

                                        Colors, moods of pigment call to the artist

                                        Line, moods of movement call to the dancer

                                       Substance, moods of form call to the sculptor

                                       Sound, moods of timbre call to the musician

                                      Words, moods of expression call to the poet

                                                                    … and so a story be told

                                                                    a vision be shared

                                                              a song be written

                                                       a decree declared…

                                                                  Rose Marie Raccioppi

                                                                                 Poet Laureate

                                                                                Orangetown, New York

...and to an artist...

Ever to Proclaim

The soaring Spirit real
In revelation beyond conceal
This knowing light in TRUTH known
The grace of BEING in creation shown
The line, the form, in reverence held
Intention, purpose, destiny and divinity meld
The calling MUSE ever to proclaim
Beauty, Truth, Majesty in HIS NAME.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Founder/Director
The APOGEE Paradigm™

You are the artist ~ An Awareness Wise...

You are the artist, and your life is your creation. It's your story. It's your comedy or drama, and if your story is changing anyway, then why not direct the change with awareness?

You have all our love.

Sincerely,

don Miguel Ruiz
don

 Jose Ruiz
don

Miguel Ruiz Jr.

And so in poetic dialogue...

An Awareness Wise

what be this awakening sweet


where grace and intention meet


what be this thunderous sounding in heart


where all that is has its knowing start


what be this soaring of spirit and soul


where vision is one with heart and goal


this be the Self, the TRUTH to embrace


where all that is blessed in knowing I place


where judgment, reprisal, illusion and demise


be cast aside by Spirit, an awareness wise


beyond the drama and lies yet heard


is the beloved glory of the divine WORD


joyful gratitude to fill my days


so be the embodiment of SELF in PRAISE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Quake and Storm... OF BEING

Quake and Storm...

OF BEING

what be this passion, this driving force
this calling to create, to design, to express
what be this passion, this driving force
this calling to awaken, to perceive, to understand
to reveal, to share, to resolve
this calling to validate, to define
to live purpose, to be free, to know love
what be this passion, this driving force
to live ideas, disciplines, and mastery
this the sculptor
form, structure, newly conceived
this the artist
metaphor, symbol of creation's command
this the poet
in lamentation, in faith, in joy expressed
this the dancer, the actor, the performer
the music, the word, the song, the drama
this the quake and storm
this each heart in soul's light
what be this passion, this driving force
but the grace and power OF BEING.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Quake and Storm, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013... on exhibit at Union Arts Center, Quincy Hall Gallery, ~ The Sounding Light ... Artists Reception and Celebration, January 4, 2014.

This Day In Celebration ~ The Birth of Leonardo Da Vinci ...

ac•ro•nym: ARTIST

Aspiration

Resolve

Trust

Inspiration

Spirit

Truth

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

In Celebration of his birth April 15, 1452

his genius
his gifts eternal

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
Leonardo Da Vinci

In His Hand

In his hand 
A pencil he to hold
Lines, shadows, delicate 
Purposeful and bold
Portrays he grace
A beauty sublime
And gifted we be
By artistry divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 ~ May 2, 1519, an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo is known as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. Indeed one of the greatest artists of all time and perhaps the most diversely gifted person ever to have lived.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

...a palette...a brush... Hues A Flow...

...when the quietude whispers 'tis...

the ocean's roar in the shell
the breath's longing in the heart
the creator's dance in the soul
the artist's hues a flow.



Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Hues A Flow, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.