She as ONE

She As ONE

Her wrist with beads and ribbon bright

Her hand with earth's bounty and warming light

Holds she the sands of biding time

Earth's treasure and she as ONE divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo: Patti Pistis

Earth and the jewels of nature... beauty in hand

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.

Golden Mean

I see within the form and structure of this hand
The calling of the Creator's command
Passion's pursuit be known by thee
In the grace of a shell, a bloom, a branching tree
The golden mean proportion divine
In this hand and in a growing vine
In galaxies, spiraling light and star
This the Creator's beauty at hand and in vistas far.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Image: Red Ice Creations, http://www.redicecreations.com