Katherine Jenkins and Andrea Bocelli - I Believe...YES

YES...

the beauty heard by the heart, the vision perceived by the soul
with knowing grace and faith be the story told
a world for each child's smile and questing plea
where love, peace, and enchantment mark a destiny
this to BELIEVE and mark it done
a world fully embraced by the knowing of ONE.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

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...

Of Another

The tear of another, I too shed
From darkness I call to be led
The shadows of despair and dismay
With FAITH be gone this very day
With a GRACE gifted new and divine
Embrace I this moment NOW mine
And to another I with heart to give
My WILL of life to love and live
'Tis only what I in heart command
Be known to another as a helping hand
FAITH, GRACE, WILL and the NOW known
Light bearing SELF be ever shown.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Study of hands, Silverpoint and white highlights on pink prepared paper, c. 1474,
Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452 - 1519.
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