ART and Poetic Dialogue by Rose Marie Raccioppi, Poet Laureate, a presentation in support of Arts Education...

Rose Marie Raccioppi, Poet Laureate

Presentation at The Union Arts Center, Sparkill, New York

Blue Rock School Fundraising Gala

May 17, 2014

To the left,  Rose Marie at podium in poetic dialogue. 

To the right,  on the easel, the art work, Dreams Enfold.

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams Enfold

we gave a cry and all rejoiced for this our birth complete

we are our first steps greeted with open arms

our first word that brought an admiring smile...

trace the years and their memories await anew

a montage, a kaleidoscope, of one's life view

sounds, impressions, of place time and moments sweet

where our dreams and our days come to meet

praise, punishment, joy and pain come to define

a life known as rightly yours, a life lived as mine

and what brings reason to pause this very day

but the wondrous Creation given by Life along its way

a sculpture unveiled and all in AWE and PRAISE

for what each has brought to their ennobled days

and then a painting, a poem, an endearing embrace

upon a time line of memories now they to place

decades of moons have brought mystery and delight

magical be this waxing and waning of Creation's light

and so this heart, this soul, in time's grasp and claim

be held in the spirit and glory of our Creator's name

be it of yesterdays or days yet, and dreams enfold

each new gaze, a breath, a sigh, be this our story told.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Dreams Enfold, APOGEE Vibrational Art,

www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com

At the Silent Auction three of my works of Art were auctioned, 

and now each enjoy a new abode.

Awakened Faith

Libation

Grace Be Faith

www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com

Grace Be Faith

Within the deep vistas of dark
Indigo, the pulsing of the night
The alchemic flame of PRESENCE
The golden light of PRAISE...

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


“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)

And so chosen to be the Cover Art for the January/February Edition of HOOK.

http://www.thehook.org

The Sounding Light Art Exhibit at Quincy Hall Gallery, 
The Union Arts Center , Sparkill, New York,  January and February 2014.

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, 
to them who are the called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28 KJV)
~

Upon Reflection ~ Grace Be Faith

Within the depths of night

So be this Indigo light

The celestial sea of heaven's above

Hold to the golden alchemic grace of love

The firelight of faith and vision divine

This of heart, of soul, of mind

The thought conceived and JOY to prevail

Lifted be illusion and deception's veil

Sparked be this moment in soul's surrender sweet

Where dark, light, vision and faith in adoration meet.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

~

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...