The Blessings of a Son

 

A calling, a destiny, lovingly divine

An endowment of truth of structure, of form, of line

A vision, a knowing from depths of soul and heart

From which you ne'er depart

Beauty in its supernal expression and grace

With hand upon clay you do place

Know I thy will is done 

You in fulfillment my son 

This your day of birth ever new

Behold I the divinity that is YOU.

Happy Birthday Dear Christopher

July 10, 2022

Ever with love,

Mom

~

U N B R I D L E D

He spoke... I listened ... and in turn a word...

 a calling to the Self... UNBRIDLED...

 be his artistry, his vision, his quest, his passion, his truth...

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, MS FABI 

APOGEE Poet

Founder/Director 

APOGEE Paradigm™ 

Personal Empowerment Specialist

Image Source: Painting: https://turnerfineart.com/product/kathryn-mapes-turner-unbridled/

Playful Musings

Seduction and passion's plea
Longing and rapture in reverie
Fervor, spirit's luminous flame
Ablaze the soul calls its claim
Rueful reflection sounds its cry
Muse be summoned to answer why
Enfold yourself in the spark of creation
Now and eternal is all revelation
Brush stroke of color upon surfaces vast
Sculpture set by the artist to cast
Carving of stone with the hand divine
Drawing holding grace in shadow and line
The sounding heart and reaching hand
Music, music, echoes of God's command
Flaming heart of love and boundless fire
Know I of grace and incessant desire
Art, music, words in prose, words in rhyme
Playful musings of these passions mine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York



Baldassare Peruzzi, 1481-1537, a painter of frescoes in the Cappella San Giovanni in the Duomo of Siena, Muses Dancing with Apollo.

Simplicity

simplicity
interface
light and shadow
fields of color
motion
the thought
the artistry
expression fulfilled.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Simplicity, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

Ideas Ideas Made Real

the play the theater
the drama staged
the brush the paint
the artistry unfolds
the line the shadow
the drawing to portray
the thought the reflection
the poetic word to convey
the vision the sculpture
the stone the clay reveal
CREATION CREATION
ideas ideas made real.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York



Still life painting with studio tools, Oil on canvas, Robert Talbot.
http://www.rtalbot.com/gallery/Still-life-painting-with-studio-tools-4.php

Palette of Light

Hues and tones upon a palette of light divine
Colors in brilliant array upon a canvas of time
The splendor of starlight and distant winds enfold
'Tis the artistry of Creation this hour I to behold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Astronomy Picture of the Day, Rosetta Nebula, Credit & Copyright: John Ebersole,
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091202.html




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Passion, Piano and the Poet’s Pen

Passion, piano and the poet's pen sublime
Music and artistry 'tis nature's grace divine
The music, the words, the poem's soulful plea
Impassioned strings of heart known and set free
The artist's unveiling, the poet's word
And the music, the music, to be ever heard
These gifts of purpose, will and intent
Summon be the Muse with God's blessings sent.

Rose Marie Raccioppi




Passion, Piano and the Poet's Pen

Yashar Yaslowitz
Piano

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poetry

On Sunday, May 17, 2009, 2:00 pm, at the Valley Cottage Library, Valley Cottage, New York
www.vclib.org/areas.asp?id=74

The Awakened Muse

The awakened Muse in God's spirit known
By the glory, beauty, splendor ever shown
The warm rising Sun for newness and light
The waxing Moon for faith's inner sight
Each bloom of Spring but a beckoning call
For the rebirth of life within each and All
Music and artistry 'tis nature's grace divine
Muse inspired note, form, structure and line
The music, the words, the poem's soulful plea
The drawing, the painting, the sculpture free
These gifts of purpose, goal, will and intent
The summon of the Muse with God's blessings sent
And when the Word sparks a thought of joy and rhyme
A wind's whisper, a bird's song, the day, the night be mine
Sky, land, mountain, stream, lake, river and sea
A palette of color, mood, bequeathed in guise to me
The vision, the dream now anew in God's Word
The Muse's entreat to follow, to follow, now heard
Line, form, sound, color, structure ever in creation
And so the awakened Muse in devoted revelation.


Rose Marie Raccioppi


Rottenhammer, Hans, Deutsch, Oil on canvas, Minerva and the Muses, 1603.

Heed Wise The Muse

Heed wise the Muse, your counsel of soul
God’s blessings to mark your goal
Another’s time and glory
And now ‘tis my story
Others have walked in the sun
My time has now just begun
Words of knowing within my heart
From this joy I shall newly start
Another’s creation in celebration
And I God’s eternal revelation
The plea from grace now known
I in gratitude for creation shown
The sculptor’s hand
In God’s command
Line and form to reveal
God’s beauty constant and real
Spectrum of color from a palette divine
Immortal the quest this moment be mine
The artist’s unveiling, the poet’s word
And the music, the music, to be ever heard
Heed wise the Muse, your counsel of soul
God’s blessings to mark your goal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Daughter Child of the Muses

Held in the arms of spirit
Within the refuge of light
Daughter Child of the Muses
Your lyre sounds in delight
Strum the chords of the heavens
In this moment of thought
Feel the concordant harmonies
For nothing is, that is naught.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Parnassus or Apollo and the Muses (detail) by Simon Vouet French painter (b. 1590, Paris, d. 1649, Paris