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/

O N E...

 Awakened to the dawning new... to the resounding silence... to

ONE

It is the silence that is heard

The din holds blind the given WORD

It is the heart that seeks and finds

Beyond the trappings of the mind

It is the soul in its knowing care

That soars beyond the darkness of despair

Each season a crescendo of time

Constant be the call to the divine

It is love eternal in its gift of grace

That brings as ONE, all time, all place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Blessed Alchemy

trees in revelation of secrets of time

joy in emergent colors devine

in my garden there now be

golden leaves of blessed alchemy

wondrous be these expressions of Fall

from trees mighty and proudly tall

behold I the splendor of a resounding grace

their secret of joy within soul I place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo: Blessed Alchemy, CAR, Collectible Clicks, 

©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2020.

VISTA AFAR

VISTA AFAR 

Felt is the passion of a vista afar

The depths of dark, the light of a star

Colors vibrant and ever so real

The quest of expression beyond conceal

In waves of enfolding grace sublime

Lost I am to the light of the divine

Feel I the fire, the flame, the soaring flight

The dark in an ever quest for the radiant light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

PHOTO: NASA: Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200128.html

Ascend to the calling...

to defend beyond offense

be this the way of the knowing heart

from which compassion, grace, harmony, bear their start

each holds to perceptions birthed from experience and time

let us ascend to the calling of the DIVINE

                         Deliverance, 

                               Inspiration, 

                                   Volition, 

                                        I AM, 

                                            Nurturance, 

                                                 Eternal,

in thought, quest,  word and deed

and so shall PEACE… PEACE be a blessed creed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Paradigm™

A WEB to Spin…

As a Consultant/Therapist… when listening to the expressed need of a person, hear I, the resolve… 

a poetic dialogue ensues in heart… and so it is...

A WEB to Spin…

From deep hurt and loss a web to spin

In threads of anguish caught her heart within

Soulful reflection and resolve to proclaim

In forgiveness and faith to call God’s name

To feel the knowing, the purpose, the plan

Ever God’s gift to life, woman and man

Free be her heart and lamenting soul

In glory she to live life’s goal

Entanglements need not confining be

She to hold to life’s decree

The beauty of a spider’s web be it known

For the intent fulfilled and the artistry shown

So too, within our hearts threads of time, people and place

And within a web we may so place

Yet each thread is created anew to interweave

So too, with each thought we bear to conceive

Within these threads of creation and time

Behold the magic, the mystery, the wondrous divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Image: Flickr: Spiderweb, Ultra Sonic Photograpy.

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Abiding LOVE ... heart to heart....

pulsing pulsing be this heart

first breath and life bears its earthly start

heart prayer, an inner light, a flame

passion, faith and truth in glory name

this sounding PRESENCE be it in PRAISE

for the treasure of time and blessed days

a body, a mind, a spirit, a soul

a life in pursuit of purpose, a vision, a goal

alchemic be a thought and a knowing divine

blessed BE this moment of grace, yours and mine

hold to the light of stars in heavens above

live the majesty of PRESENCE and abiding LOVE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Heart Prayer, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2014.

A Blessed Sunday... Play I the Light

So sweet is this song of the winds I hear
Bygone yet heard within my heart so near
Strings to sound within this soul mine
Play I the light of the firmament divine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York 


Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, 1591-1666, Italian Baroque painter from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna, St Francis with an Angel Playing Violin, Oil on canvas, 162 x 127 cm

Boundless FAITH

wherein comes this lightness of heart

wherein does boundless FAITH have its start

wherein does life redefine its story

wherein lies the new found glory

be it in health and life lived anew

be it the blessings bestowed upon you

be it the breath, its ebb and flow sublime

be it the GRACE within, the known DIVINE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Boundless Faith, Image, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Kanji: Eternity

Eternity In Eight Strokes

eternity in this moment real
passions past passions present beyond conceal
eight strokes with a hand be they known
from which yearning and knowing be shown
eight strokes with brush and ink to define
all time present, the Infinite, the Divine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

This is a kanji character (Chinese characters used in Japan) meaning "eternity", pronounced "ei" in Japanese. This character is traditionally used to practice writing kanji because it embodies the eight basic strokes used in calligraphy. The image you see here was drawn by Lorna Chang. www.soas.ac.uk

...midnight hour and into the morning... Shroud Of Night And Moon

Blue Moon and indigo sky to behold
wondrous light to embrace and enfold
shroud of night and moon be spun sublime
a flowing swaddling of soul's rapture divine
hallowed moments of Presence they be
lunar waves cresting the celestial sea.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Shroud of Night and Moon, image: Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.

In Memorial, 2010

In memorial and reverence stand we
Held our right to be free
Hearts and souls in valor known
Right intention and devotion shown
Battlefields of victory and plight
Through all beheld freedom's light
Others before us in peace they lay
And gather in gratitude we this day
Sons and daughters, husbands and wives
Children of purpose have given their lives
The breath of freedom an endowment divine
Bequeathed to life yours, life mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet of the Year
Orangetown, New York

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal's historic photo depicts five United States Marines and one sailor raising an American flag over Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The image is an Associated Press photograph that won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography. It was taken by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945.

YouTube - National Anthem USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb_yVxDyB9s

Bernini ~ TRUTH

The first cry of a child
Its tender grasp and soft touch
Its reaching for life's embrace
Truth the calling of the soul
Its longing for the Oneness of Being
Its ever present quest of the Divine
Truth the will of Creation
Its expression in the soul of humanity
Its line, form, structure of the sublime
Truth the revelation of beauty
Its ever present call be it known
By the hand with God's Grace shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



La Verita, TRUTH, White marble 1646-52, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1598-1680.

Upon The Field

The dew upon the field so wide so vast
The kiss of nature in drops of water cast
The bloom ever in color and splendid array
The blessings of Creation this very day
The loving grace of field and bloom bright
The gentleness of petal to hold God's light
Such is the splendor and love of the Presence we share
This array of divine beauty in God's care.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Oat And Poppy Field, Giverny, 1890, Claude Oscar Monet, 1840-1926.

Creation's Command Light Years Away

The pulse of a nebula in a vista vast
Wondrous beauty in this universe cast
An array brilliant of color and light
To astound the heavens this very night
The life of a sun-like star a halo divine
From light years away to this moment mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100509.html

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Rapture ~ A Haiku Reflection

rapture and beauty
line, form, structure, grace divine
bequest of the soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


The Rapture of Psyche, 1865, Oil on canvas, William Bouguereau, French, 1825-1905.

YES

This very moment...

Yield to the Eternal Spirit
Y
E
S
To the questing soul
To the knowing heart
To the calling purpose
Yield
Eternal be your Being
Spirit ever Divine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi

This YES is a wall hung sculpture that greets my students upon entry to the APOGEE studio.
It is a commissioned piece that glorifies our gift of choice.


YES, Sculpture, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.



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Heaven's Light

Wings of heaven's light
Beauty of the Divine in flight
Delicate is your touch and feel
Sublime be known in Spirit real.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Photo: Butterfly Bliss, Ing Van De Vyver, 2010.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=197605&id=622791110&ref=mf
in tribute and in gratitude for such beauty captured

Luxuriant Waters Divine

Primal rhythms
heard within the depths of me
The sound of cresting waves
breaking at sea
Babbling brook
a waterfall resounds
The feel of this heart
flow ever found
The sound of rain
drumming upon all to hear
Assuring be these gifts of water
banish loss and fear
Flowing, cascading, cresting,
luxuriant waters divine
The feel, the sound, the ebb and flow,
blissful breath mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Ben Arthur, Scotland, etching and mezzotint, engraved by Thomas Lupton, 1819,
Painted by: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851.

May the sounds of water, wind, and our hearts, be known
to ever hold the light of love and creation.
Thank You, Nicola Cali, for this beauty shared.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE1qEmu4jvw



Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~
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Labyrinth

For Charan

This labyrinth of mind calls to my SOUL
To reach the SELF, a heartfelt goal
Enter this path to a center place
Hold to this knowing, your WILL to trace
The circle, the spiral, a labyrinth does make
A purposeful path, a journey to take
A circuitous travel to the center DIVINE
Within, without, be this journey mine
Know I of this center, its silent roar
Within, without, my SPIRIT to soar.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Ritratto di gentiluomo, 1512, Rome, Italy, Palazzo Barberini, Bartolomeo Veneto, active 1502 - 1546, Italian painter.
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The earliest known Christian labyrinth is located in a church in Algeria, with the words Sancta Eclesia (holy church) inscribed in its center. As early as A.D. 350, worshipers entering the church would trace the labyrinth with their finger in order to focus their thoughts and open themselves up to the presence of God.

In the Middle Ages, many cathedrals in Europe began to construct larger labyrinths. Christians who could not make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem would instead travel to these cathedrals to walk the labyrinth as a spiritual pilgrimage, symbolizing the journey to the Holy Land. The labyrinth in the floor of the nave at Chartres Cathedral in France is the most well known of the medieval designs.

The labyrinth is composed of eleven circuits and is divided into four quadrants, clearly defined by a cross. The center of the labyrinth is a rose-shaped area for resting, prayer, or meditation. To walk a labyrinth is to provide yourself with a very personal experience. Some people walk with the intention of addressing an issue in their lives, others to pray and meditate. Walk between the lines of the circuit. The center is a place to pause, reflect, and receive insight. Walking the path back out of the labyrinth is a time for deep reflection and to consider its special meaning for you.

I have walked. Each step a loving memory. Each memory a living grace.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~
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