...with palette in hand... Quake and Storm

..with palette in hand...

Quake and Storm

the line be it beauty perceived
the light be it TRUTH revealed
the shadow be it time cast
the color be it passion known
the stirring, the quest, the resolve
quake and storm
'tis the artist's way.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Quake and Storm, Image and Text, ©Rose Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

The work, "Quake and Storm," is on Display/Sale at "The Food Evolution" in Bardonia, New York. (w63" x h33" - framed in wood hand finished brown/bronze) For more information contact me directly.

Upon expression of the heart's prevailing word and the soul's felt vision, a Peace is known.. Peace is ever the gift and celebration of love and creation... it is the resolve of light and shadow, it is the knowing of grace, the living of TRUTH, and the blessings of life eternal.

Yours in gratitude,
Rose Marie

He wrote...

Before me words upon paper cast
What is said and what is masked
What do these words deeply convey
What is it that the heart need say
The emptiness and fullness of life be told
By the words that seek to unfold
To make sense of all that comes to evolve
The soul ever in reach for TRUTH and resolve
What contradiction is there to live
What understanding will this day willingly give
Pain and dismay may not to others be shown
This torment held within to Self be known
Confines and pretense these shackles to unbind
And free shall be these taunts of heart and mind.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Le génie du mal, St. Paul's Cathedral, Liège, white marble, 1848, Guillaume Geefs. 1805-1883.

Liszt Consolation no. 3 performed on Liszt's 1862 Bechstein Piano

In loving gratitude to
Sandro Russo


Known Be This Awakened Heart

The coolness of morning dew upon leaf
The gentle ripple of moving waters
The caress of soft winds
The feel of shimmering veils in sounds I hear
The embrace of each piano key
And known be this awakened heart.


Rose Marie Raccioppi

Liszt: Consolation No.3 in D flat major

Simon & Garfunkel - Sound Of Silence

Restless dreams
Calling heart
This moment in quest
For LOVE be known
The GLORY of SELF
Echoes of the SOUL
Whispered in the sound of silence.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

In Dedication to Clare

Liszt: Consolation No.3 in D flat major

Known Be This Awakened Heart

The coolness of morning dew upon leaf
The gentle ripple of moving waters
The caress of soft winds
The feel of shimmering veils in sounds I hear
The embrace of each piano key
And known be this awakened heart.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Franz Liszt
1811-1886
Consolation No. 3

Swaddled In The Baptism Of Time

Swaddled in the baptism of time
Thought and being
Solitude
Moments of intimacy
With the inner secrets of SELF
Woven threads
Yesterdays the weft
Tomorrows the warp
This cloak of life woven
Textured by the visions of heart
Patterned by the quest of soul
Moments in freedom's embrace
A silent resonant call is heard
Wonder, oneness, echo a repose
A return to innocence
Swaddled in the baptism of time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


“I Am Half-Sick of Shadows," Said the Lady of Shalott, 1915, Oil on canvas, John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917.

Royal String Quartet, Górecki, 3rd mvt. String Quartet no. 3

The haunt
the quest
the search
sweet revelation
pursuit
contemplation
reflection
reverie
resolve
the music, the music
the sounding strings
the sounding soul
this heart known
vistas of the great mind
the Creator's call
the music, the music.


Rose Marie Raccioppi

listen along with me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alzWUSoRqvk&feature=player_embedded

Astronomy Picture of the Day
image: Orion in Gas, Dust, and Stars
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090929.html

We in ascension
the splendor of soul as it soars beyond all imposed limitation
As the GREAT MIND speaks TRUTH
SPIRIT in heralding voices calls us to the ONE, to the KNOWING, to the LIGHT.
So be the music, the music...


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In The Mirror

In the mirror my image in reflection
Is what I see real or is it illusion and deception
What am I yet blinded to see
That lies in secret depths within me
What word now upon my soul be a darkening veil
When it is resolve and faith I justly hail
Taunts, taunts, no longer to hold domain
Healed be this heart, I longingly proclaim.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Mariana in the South,1897, Oil on canvas, John William Waterhouse, British Painter, 1849-1917.

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This Awakened Heart

The coolness of morning dew upon leaf
The gentle ripple of moving waters
The caress of soft winds
The feel of shimmering veils in sounds I hear
The embrace of each piano key
And known be this awakened heart.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Franz Liszt
1811-1886
Consolation No. 3

Liszt at the Piano, 1840, Oil on wood, Playing for Beethoven and surrounded by Hugo, Paganini, Rossini, Lamartine, Sand and Marie d'Agoult (seated on the floor), Josef Danhauser, 1805-1845, Source: Bridgeman Art Library.