FAVOR unto YOU

 

Favor Unto You

God's gifts to be known

By the bounty of earth shown

God's voice to be heard

In the hearing of HIS WORD

Each moment, day and passing year

In gratitude for life evermore dear

A knowing of an inner spirit of calm

God's love shielding us from harm

In blessings. in providence, in imaginings divine

Behold we bounty, beauty, breath, our gift of time

In joyful reverence this very day gifted anew

Gods's favor. God's favor, unto you.

AMEN

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

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I, as a LOTUS

 

I,  as a LOTUS

earth and the gift of sweet libation 

waters that fill the soils with its elixir of grace 

beheld be the flow of streams, rivers, brooks

pools of mud blessedly receptive, receiving

the gift of water, earth, sun, and PRESENCE

from depths emergent be the rooting, the bud, the bloom

a LOTUS,  from muddy waters arising

so too, I,  from muddy waters,  from tears known 

a  bloom  of beauty, bounty and BEING. 

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York 

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Don I

don I the royal robes of resolve, shed I the cloak of despair
know I the grace, the blessings, the light of God's loving care
when oppression and fear beckon to this heart
from blessed grace, the knowing of love, ne’er I shall depart
upon my soul a golden shield of everlasting light and love
this with eyes to earth and eyes to the heavens above
be I of breath in the presence of the NOW
be I of spirit in an eternal vow 
to the divinity of love and grace, the soul in expressions shown
be this the bloom, the bounty, the breath, the beauty of BEING known.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York 

Photo: Iris ensata 'Royal Robe’  

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mshades/484918094/

When visualizing, "royal robes of resolve..." I envisioned a robe of violet velvet that caught the light, shoulder decoration and tassels of brilliant gold, symbolic of crown energies, and the graces of alchemy, regal, stately, and flowing. I was not aware that a flower existed that mirrored what was perceived, nor bore the name, "Royal Robe." 

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The poem was fully penned when I set to search for a fitting image. When found within a flower, I felt deeply validated, blessed and grateful. Within the words of my poem its beauty was conceived. 

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Beauty beheld,

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⁠Rose Marie Raccioppi⁠

God's love, praise and favor on to you

 

...the day's news known, the visions yet held...

God's gifts to be known

By the bounty of earth shown

God's voice to be heard

In the hearing of HIS WORD

For the feel of abiding love divine

For this moment in blessed grace mine

Each breath, day and passing year

In gratitude for life evermore dear

A knowing of an inner spirit of calm

God's love shielding me from harm

In joyful reverence a moment gifted new

God's love, praise and favor on to you.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

HOLD SWEET...

HOLD SWEET

a seed planted

a garden watered

beauty and bounty there be

a kind word

a willing embrace

beauty and bounty there be

a day in honor, in celebration

a calling to heart

beauty and bounty there be

a poetic dialogue of faith and vision

a stroke of color upon a canvas

beauty and bounty there be

hold sweet the savor of wisdom

the gift of intent 

a vision of grace

the very breath of BEING

beauty and bounty there be.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown,  New York 

Awakened Faith, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, The Sounding Light Collection. 

And so it is… here in my kitchen...

And so it is… here in my kitchen...

The bounty of seed and bloom 
this of Thanksgiving grace

From farm, to home, to counter, 
to stove, to oven, to table to place

Such beauty Mother Nature 
does ever so lovingly conceive 

FOR A THANKSGIVING we in JOYFUL CELEBRATION 

blessedly receive.

Gratitude it is…

Ever with love…

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Photo: Here in my kitchen, CAR, Collectible Clicks ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2019.

A ROSE yet blooms...

A ROSE yet blooms...

shocking be the news
this ROSE yet blooms
misunderstood be the views
this ROSE yet blooms
deception and deceit
this ROSE yet blooms
pesticides and toxins
this ROSE yet blooms
lawsuits and trials
this ROSE yet blooms
chaos and disasters
this ROSE yet blooms
pain and loss 
this ROSE yet blooms
Creation's bounty ours to hail
beyond all illusion
truth and beauty ever to prevail
t'is the way of The Creator to call to soul
the bounty in praise and so paid be the toll.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

A ROSE, CAR, Collectible Clicks, @Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2019

An added word...

And there it is... the beauty, the delicate touch, and too, the thorns... one is to be respectful of what it is they choose to hold to... be it a trauma, an experience, that can rip through the core of our BEING. Go gentle with SELF... awaken to the beauty and the sacred call of consciousness that dwells deep for our awareness, our reflection, our resolve, our release from that which yet pierces through our pretense. This the way of the WINNING WARRIOR... the APOGEE Acu-Tone™ Paradigm.

The Bounty and Grace... A Sunday offering...

The Bounty and Grace

Breath bestowed, so too
The bounty and grace of GOD
The warmth of the noonday sun
The rains in libation sweet
The ebb and flow of cresting waves
The many moods of a season
The beauty of flower and bloom
The flourishing trees in forests grand
The exchange of love and faith
The blessings in purpose known
The passions to ever prevail
The vision of quest and joy
The receiving, the having, the giving
The golden thread within
The bounty and grace of GOD.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

The Wondrous

There is ever the wondrous in life
The ways of nature in expression
The gift of seed
The beauty of bloom
The blessings of bounty
Pay heed, pay heed, the breath
The receiving, the giving
This of Earth, this of Being.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Interface, breath as one, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, The Sounding Light Collection.

On Exhibit/Sale at the Tappan Free-Library, Tappan, New York for the month of September, 2016. 

Do plan a viewing visit. 

The bird song is heard... Balance ~ Bounty ~ Beauty ... and so known THE WORD...

Balance ~ Bounty ~ Beauty

Mother Earth Father Sky

bring forth time ever NOW

A rock, a crystal, a gem

to hold the textures and light of change

A flower, a bloom

hold to the ever emergent grace of BEING

wondrous forms of delight and PRAISE

A tree deeply rooted and towering free

giving each season its change, its growth,

purpose ever anew in bough and branch

SPRING the present expression of

balance ~ bounty ~ beauty

heed its call to

Spirit ~ Passion ~ Resolve ~ Inspiration ~ Nurturance ~ Grace

Be it of Mother Earth

Be it of Father Sky

This the blessings

Live in balance

Enjoy the bounty of THE WAY

Be the beauty

Fill your heart with the knowing gift of NOW

This the splendor of time, this Creation's vow.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Fence Post Lookout, Photograph, Stephen Baird, http://www.nikonsniper.blogspot.com

Waters...

Waters bathe me in a loving embrace ever sweet
Touched by waters, this body and God's Grace meet
Cooling be the touch, nurturing be its flow
Upon farm lands, bounty to serve, to grow
Upon fields of grass, grain, and flowers in bloom to be
The delight of rain welcomed by all from sea to sea
Rain forests lush, jeweled in emerald green wondrous delight
Hold to the waters ever blessed by the glow of warming light
Shores caressed by waves cresting mighty and high
Behold the crowning rainbow across the lambent sky
Waters sigh and hold a promise ever new
This benevolence of Grace bestowed upon you.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York


photo source: Djinn Ga Fairbairn

Upon the Farm Counter

upon the farm counter alive and green
the wondrous abundance of nature be seen
a grass so fresh its vibrancy shouts
this is what bounty is all about
harvest well plants that grow small
and those who grow mighty and tall
know that green speaks its language of love
offering to you its gifts of rain and sun from above
unto my table it comes to be
blessings and nourishment from the grace of THEE.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Image: Wheat Grass, Old Hook Farm, Emerson, NJ.

...upon my walkway...Tappan, New York

scarlet, crimson, magenta, russet, they be
gathered upon my walkway colors alight I see
the surrender of time and this season's call
the bounty, the beauty, the blessings of Fall.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

for Patty



Upon My Walkway, Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

Labor Day 2011... haiku reflections...

this day of labor
bounty, abundance, harvest
the blessings of toil.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun, 1889, Oil on canvas, Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890,
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

...Within...

within the depths

mother earth's pulsing womb

seeds nourished by Creation's quest

ever the birthing of bounty divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Within the Depths, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

Creation's Bounty

Bough and branch
In splendor they be
The delight of leaves
The giving of a tree
Creation's bounty
Be it ever known
Seasons of grace
In God's light shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



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Three Sunflowers

Three sunflowers gifted to me
'Tis the beauty of bloom I do see
Centers of seed and abundance true
God's glory in wondrous full view
Humble and proud they grow and stand
These the gifts of the Creator's hand.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Three Sunflowers in a Vase, Oil on Canvas, Arles: August, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890.

Of Creation

Daughter, mother, grandmother, child of God's grace
With loving gratitude upon my heart your hand to place
Creation's call and nature's gifts of caring praise
Life's awakenings to fill these bequest of days
A time set aside to hail and in thankful celebration
Mother and the ever present bounty of Creation.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis on the Sistine ceiling, it was among the last to be completed.

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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


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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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