...blessed hands...

          ... blessed hands that sculpt beauty and hold to truth
                form

                     structure

                          line

                               passion
                                    captured 

                                          be the grace

                                                the pain

                                                      the ecstasy 

                                                            the quest of BEING...

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Terracotta bozetto for "Ecstasy of St. Theresa", 1647-1652.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, "Ecstasy of St. Theresa", 1652, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Born 7 December 1598
Naples, Kingdom of Naples, in present-day Italy
Died 28 November 1680 (aged 81)
Rome, Papal States, in present-day Italy
Nationality Italian
Known for Sculpture, painting, architecture
Notable work:
David,
Apollo and Daphne,
The Rape of Proserpina,
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
Movement Baroque style

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Rhapsodies Mine

words to echo the depths of passion and desire
those that capture moments of rapture's fire
the lover's embrace that holds silent the pain
within the folds of beauty our truth we so name
we and another in shared vision and a knowing quest
become the ocean waters as they flow and crest
an ecstasy within that breathes life divine
blessed be these rhapsodies mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Rhapsodies, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013.

So deeply felt... so deeply known... the pen of the poet... the brush of the artist... 
word and palette ... a divine order in expression...

Le Printemps

Adoration and exaltation sweet
Within my heart ecstasy complete
Rapture be this moment real
Spring Eternal I not conceal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Le Printemps (The Return of Spring), 1886, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter, 1825-1905.

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