In Celebration ~ Blessed BE ~ July 4, 2022

 

Visionaries ~ Builders ~ this the AMERICAN WAY 

~ Rights ~ Freedom ~ Liberty  ~ 

the call of souls in TRUTH known  

and so shall we rise, rise, rise, anew to the Light.

The airways, the media
Messages of oppression, 
War, devastation, despair
A plea, pay note, be aware
So calls each message
Take action
Be not delayed
By the lure of distraction
Act now for your freedoms
Are at stake
By the decisions others
Are in power to make
V for Vendetta, The Matrix 
So warns
Man need not be forlorn
In faith
With power
Noble light and deed
Let us again take hold
And live
Freedom's creed
The ravages of suppression 
Known and heard
So from the heart of Freedom 
Came each word
Declarations so marked 
To portray
That man free of oppression 
Be the chosen way
In Freedom’s light 
And with Freedom’s call
Dignity of expression 
A right granted all
And if with doubt 
And query new
A forum open 
For a challenged view
Hold these words 
As Freedom’s choice
Let not TRUTH be a silenced voice.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

~

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence (from The Concert in Central Park)

WE the PEOPLE are NOT TO BE TAKEN by the SILENCE

Listen to the prophesy of the words

feel the plea

~ Independence Day, July 4, 2021 ~

Let us fill the S I L E N C E ~ with Spirit, with an IAM presence, with an enduring Love, with an Evolutionary grace, with an embracing Nurturance, with the Creator's guidance, with an Eternal light. 

Allow the SILENCE, letter by letter, sound by sound  

to be a resounding 

GLORIA.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Paradigm™

Lyrics

Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again

Because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain

Still remains

Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone

Narrow streets of cobblestone

'Neath the halo of a street lamp

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

That split the night

And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light, I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more

People talking without speaking

People hearing without listening

People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dared

Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know

Silence like a cancer grows

Hear my words that I might teach you

Take my arms that I might reach you"

But my words, like silent raindrops fell

And echoed

In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made

And the sign flashed out its warning

In the words that it was forming

And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

And tenement halls"

And whispered in the sound of silence

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Paul Simon

The Sound of Silence lyrics © Paul Simon Music

Words that Inspired the Defining of America ~ Declaration of Independence in 1776.

In Celebration of Freedom's Call  

Words that Inspired the Defining of America… 

those of heart, of conviction, of right intention, of respect, of honor, of freedom.

LET US REJOICE

~ Freedoms in Celebration ~ Liberation held dear ~ 

Happy 4th of July to All

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams

draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Painting: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Library of Congress

FREEDOM in letters be it known....

Faith

Resolve

Evolution

Eternal

Deliverance

Omnipresence

Manifest 

                                                           what IS  ~ Inspired Spirit.

                                                                                  

Rose Marie Raccioppi

KNOW I...

 KNOW I... 

"Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.”  

~Nikola Tesla

Know I, beyond Fear there is FAITH, beyond Doubt there is DELIVERANCE, beyond Trepidation there is TRUST, beyond Dismay there is DIVINITY…

Man in freedom so born is he

Yet shackled he sets himself to be

Oppression dark upon heart yet be lain

The echoes of emotion still held profane

The mind to silence daunting echoes of time past

And free the self from binding chains cast

Memory called to free mind, heart and soul

Alchemy to ring its welcomed toll.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Paradigm™

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Image: Ugolino and His Sons, ca.1857-1861, Saint-Béat marble 1865-1867, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter, 1827-1875, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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/

Moment of FREEDOM... and so proclaimed anew July 5, 2020

Moment of FREEDOM

The shedding of shackles and confine

This quest of spirit and mind

The moment of birthing freedom sought

Beyond the illusion suppression has taught

The reach to the God within

To vanquish each false sin

With brush and paint I to proclaim

This Moment of Freedom in Truth's name

Peaks and flames of passion and desire

The light and glory of Spirit's known fire.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Moment of FREEDOM, 2002, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

When we live, feel, touch within ourselves the knowing of liberation, so be that Moment of FREEDOM... with all its fervor, with all its fire, with all its passion, with all that IS ~ Inspired Spirit ~ free to rejoice, free of life threatening disease, free of all that oppresses, free from misunderstandings,  free to know God,  free to BE ~ Birth Eternal onto SELF.

July 4, 1776... The Declaration of Independence... FREEDOM...

FREEDOM… the vision, the quest, the glory… all in…

          Faith
               Revelation
                    Evolution
                         Exchange
                              Deliverance
                                    Oneness
                                         Manifest…the hue and cry of Spirit...
                                                                                                   of Heart 
                                                                                                          of Soul...

Such be the toil of our Founding Fathers

Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

#FREEDOM

Memorial Day Tribute 2017...PEACE.. the heart in aspiration, the soul in knowing ...

Well Done

A Memorial Day Tribute 2017

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Well done

Be thou at PEACE

So be our prayers of love and praise this Memorial Day

For Our Veterans who have served in their own selfless  way

Heartfelt be these words and remembrances

Heartfelt be the sacrifices, the visions

Heartfelt be the freedoms and rights that prevail

’Tis the vision of freedoms and valor within souls that be

And known be our sons and daughters who have served from sea to sea

The cry of Freedom ever a blessed creed

Held by sacrifice and noble deed

Each life that was, NOW lives in God’s embrace sublime

Ever blessed be their souls in soaring grace divine

To Freedoms’ Call hearts in praise be heard

And so the spoils of victory and liberation’s word

No words  can explain the wages of war we do spend

But for the freedoms and rights we are to defend

Tears of lament and loss we do shed and share

Let us in heart know, in valor, souls soar high in God’s care

This gift of Life with vision blessed and bold

This the giving within each Veteran’s story told

Light beholden within our heart

From which love and freedom have their primordial start

Endured they battlefields of victory of plight

Through all held they freedom’s light

In homage to sons and daughters, husbands and wives

Hearts of purpose who have given their lives

Our dear ones who once filled our day

Their souls taken to another path, to the eternal way

Be there Peace, Brotherhood, Freedom, called in God’s name

And to each Veteran our blessings and acclaim

This day in word, in song, in tribute, honor be heard

The glory, the glory, the blessings, of Freedom’s Word.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

As the Sun sets this Sunday... Of BEING...

Of BEING

     Sparks of soul have lit aflame

          Fires of passions unbridled

               Visions of light and enchanted being

                    Sounds of savor sing spirit’s call

                        This moment eternal breath abides

                            The quest in the clutches of grace

                                The knowing in the domain of beauty

                                    The blessings in words of divinity

                                        The freedom as destiny in fulfillment

                                             The feel of BEING 

                                                  Of BEING

                                                       Of BEING

                                                             Of BEING.

                                           

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Politics and the the POET... People ~ Opportunity ~ Eternal ~ Truth ... ever the call... ever the claim... Rose Marie Raccioppi

With power

Noble light and deed

Live we Freedom's creed

The ravages of suppression 

Known and heard

So from the heart of Freedom 

Came each word

Declarations so marked 

To portray

That man free of oppression 

Be the chosen way

In Freedom’s light 

And with Freedom’s call

Dignity of expression 

A right granted all

And if with doubt 

A query new

A forum open 

For a challenged view

Hold these words 

As Freedom’s choice

Let not TRUTH be a silenced voice.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

The marble figures and fountains on either side of the main portico entrance of the New York City Public Library Main Branch, by Frederick MacMonnies, were installed in 1921.

On the right (north) is Truth, a man seated on a Sphinx, the form associated with Wisdom. Above the figure is an inscription from the Apocrypha (1 Esdras, chapter 3): 

BUT ABOVE ALL THINGS / TRUTH / BEARETH AWAY / THE VICTORY.

In Valor Known -Veteran's Day 11/11/11

In tribute 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 Laureate
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.