Grace Be Faith

when the night bears a light of gold
the story of faith be ever told
when despair and desolation grasp the heart
it is faith that allows all doubt to depart
the dark to hold light in its embrace
upon its path faith shall ever you trace
joyful be the moment known
when grace be faith in beauty shown.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Grace Be Faith, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.


“And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written,
‘I believed and therefore I spoke,’ we also believe and therefore speak”
(2 Corinthians 4:13, NKJ)

Touched ever so deeply by the cycles of birth and death among family and friends, within the last weeks, has called to heart and has called to FAITH... and so here expressed and lovingly shared...

The Cloak

The cloak of mortal clothing shed
Bared be the illusions and fear
Tattered threads of despair and desolation
Woven on a loom of derisive deception
No, this not the warp and weft of my destined life
This not the calling of spirit that beckons to me
The Great Weaver has given threads of silver
The moon and the stars, a vision clear
The Great Weaver has given threads of gold
The Sun and an alchemy for life to behold
The warp now declared in light, love and truth
The weft the ever present unfolding of gifts divine
The cloak of mortal clothing shed
Fibers of soul a flame
The Great Weaver heeds your destined claim.


Rose Marie Raccioppi

Written for an artist


Drapery study with pen and ink, The Erythraean Sibyl 1508-1509, Cappella Sistina Vatican, Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564.



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