APOGEE ~ Within Self...

to the setting of quest
to the vision and the goal
to the heights of spirit
to the inspiration within soul
pulsing heart passions aflame
destiny destiny call to your name.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Thank You Gary Manzo for believing and knowing
Image, ©Gary Manzo, 2011.

ONE

Peace and prosperity, anguish and pain
The majesty of God, the veil of the inane
Look to this day with faith in thy heart
Love be the path, from despair do part
Streaming from earth and the heavens above
Enduring abundance and God’s complete love
No limitation upon thy spirit thy soul
One with God, One with goal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Saint Patrick's Cathedral, NYC, New York, Photograph, PFR, Collectible Clicks©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009.


The beautifully detailed architecture of St. Patrick's Cathedral
speaks glory to God and to the gifts man can devote to beauty and faith.


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In This Hour of Sunset

No earrings, bracelets, necklaces or rings need she bear
Yet fully adorned and crowned in God’s loving care
Free of shackles and constraint of body and soul
Within all treasures and a found goal
She honors life in all its glory
Each moment now a complete story
And when she records with pen a line
Awakened and felt is the sublime
Who pray tell is she
She is the I introduced to the me
And in this moment of quiet reflection
She sees all of nature in full perfection
The warmth of the summer setting sun her hand does feel
And what is so distant is now and real
No greater or lesser can this presence be
The I known here, now, in this moment to me
The deep breath of Being in great abound
In this hour of sunset the I has found.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Sunset 1830-5, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775 - 1851.

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I Thyself

From deep hurt and loss a web to spin
In threads of anguish caught this heart within
Soulful reflection and resolve I proclaim
In forgiveness and faith I call God’s name
To feel the knowing, the purpose, the plan
Ever God’s gift to life and man
Free be this heart and lamenting soul
I thyself in glory to live life’s goal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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ONE

Peace and prosperity, anguish and pain
The majesty of God, the veil of the inane
Look to this day with faith in thy heart
Love be the path, from despair do part
Streaming from earth and the heavens above
Enduring abundance and God’s complete love
No limitation upon thy spirit thy soul
One with God, One with goal.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Saint Patrick's Cathedral, NYC, New York, Photograph, Patrick F. Raccioppi, 2007

One Step More

Beyond the bronze, silver and gold
Is a vision set a story told

Many an hour of practice and play
Marking time for an honored day

Yet within each moment the heart does shout
It is the NOW that it is all about

A journey, a path, a destined you
Marked by what you choose to do

Postpone not your victory and conquest
See it in each moment you do your best

A belief, a dream, a goal
With it your willing paid toll

And with triumph and the winning score
A new journey and one step more.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 530 B.C. Attributed to the Euphiletos Painter Greek, Attic
Terracotta; H. 25 in. (62.23 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rogers Fund, 1914 (14.130.12),
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One Step More, from THE WIND AND THE WILLOW, Rose Marie Raccioppi, June 2008,
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Is It

Is it brush in hand and thought in heart
From which this painting has its start
Where comes this call I hear as mine
Word, color and form these gifts of time
Is it the Muse that summons the soul
Beauty be the quest, beauty be the goal
And when in completion a work is to be
Is it the Muse I hear in joyful reverie
Is it Truth that anoints each new day
With the knowing path of the spirit's way
Ever present this reach to do and create
Welcome I Truth, the Muse, Destiny and Fate
God be known in what I receive and give
This be the decree for each moment I live
Is it when faith and knowing jointly resound
That God and the Muse so freely are found
So be it brush or pen in heart, mind or hand

It is to be in the Creator's fullest command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Quest, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2000, www.apogeeart.com