One Onto the Other...

One Onto the Other...

A mother's hand in blessings shown

Londyn's grasp in nurturance known

The majesty of creation and birth devine

Supernal be the grace of breath and time

The reach of Londyn to her mother's hand

Be it of a blessed knowing command

A loving bond of BEING in God's grace

Beheld each be within heart's place.

Grandma Rose Marie Raccioppi

Photo: Granddaughter Paige and Great Granddaughter Londyn  

One Onto the Other.

~

Behold the Sacred Geometry in its commune 

the offering of the Mother ~ the receiving of the Child 

Image Credit: Nassim Haramein
~

J O U R N E Y

At this evening hour... An account, a story read of another’s life that ended all too soon… The story presents the person's own questioning of his life so young, so wanting, to be facing an imminent death due to the ravages of cancer...he, himself a neurosurgeon in residency, questioned what was life itself, its purpose, its pain, its vision, its faith... and so in reflection...

JOURNEY

BE there the impasse 


the intersection 


of words


of biology 


of physics


of philosophy


of behavior


of aspiration 


in an ever present questing journey…

BE I the questions, the exploration, the journey of mind

BE I the daughter, the wife, the mother, the journey of role

BE I the teacher, the therapist, the journey of service

BE I the activist, the advocate, the journey of vision

BE I the poet, the artist, the journey of expression

BE I SELF known, the journey of liberation

BE I AM known, the journey of TRUTH.

BE there the impasse

the intersection

of words

of biology

of physics

of philosophy

of behavior

of aspiration

in an ever present questing journey…

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Happy Mother's Day

Mother and Creation in Celebration
In Reflection

There is purpose and plan
Within each heart of man
When life is given anew
The gift of time is bestowed upon you
Days to mark a quest, a desire
And known be life's passion, life's fire
Peace and love to embrace each day
And known be the Glory to God I pray.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


After the Bath, Oil on canvas, c. 1901 , Mary Cassatt, American, 1844 - 1926.

Of Creation

Daughter, mother, grandmother, child of God's grace
With loving gratitude upon my heart your hand to place
Creation's call and nature's gifts of caring praise
Life's awakenings to fill these bequest of days
A time set aside to hail and in thankful celebration
Mother and the ever present bounty of Creation.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

The Creation of Adam is a section of Michelangelo's fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling painted circa 1511. It illustrates the Biblical story from the Book of Genesis in which God the Father breathes life into Adam, the first man. Chronologically the fourth in the series of panels depicting episodes from Genesis on the Sistine ceiling, it was among the last to be completed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam



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Within You

Within you there be
The light of stars
Wondrous galaxies
The call of the oceans
The cresting waves and tides
The cool ocean breezes
Within you there be
The rippling of brooks and stream
The melody of the songbird
The awakening of Spring
The warmth of the brilliant sun
The splendor of Summer's bloom
Within you there be.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Young mother contemplating her sleeping child, Oil on wood, 1875, von Albert Anker, 1831–1910.

Our children and the child within each of us, are to be known for their light, their love and their questing purpose.
We are to unfold, not confine, enhance not demean, embrace, not ignore, the call of each reaching spirit.

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And the Child Calls and Calls

the speaker calls for the listener
the writer calls for the reader
the performer calls for the audience
the artist calls for the soul
and the child calls and calls
what is heard
what is read
what is now known
what do we yet trust
and the child calls and calls
what do we answer
what do we do
what do we plan
what do we yet dream
and the child calls and calls.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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The truth, the innocence, and the all-knowing spirit of life fills our first breath. Who and what answers our first cry? What happens in the moments of life that fill the years to follow? Do we become the sum total of who touches, who answers, who denies, who ignores, who accepts, who rejects, who encourages? What moves us out of the shadow of our own experience? ... commentary continued on above link to APOGEE Learning Enhancement Training Systems™.

Mother and Child, 1944-47, Carved Stone, Isamu Noguchi, 1904 - 1988.

And when we fully appreciate that "abstractions" are those particular parts, perceived in a particular way that have grown out of our experience with nature and SELF - we see all expressions as calls of soul, self or spirit, longing to be heard.

Longing

Does that longing set at the start
At that moment the cut given to part
Held in a mother’s womb you be
Then with birth newly free
From lifetimes of pleasure and pain
Life now a newly set game
Yet the need for care and protection to grow
Discount and dismiss what you deeply know
And then I am as others perceive me to be
Lost I somewhere in the shadow of me
The soul sings freedom a welcomed refrain
Then gone the shadow then gone the pain
The longing that had its start
In this moment does depart
And I in freedom and light cease to be
Somewhere lost in the shadow of me
Guided by TRUTH and God's loving care
Stand I free of longing and despair.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Mother and Child, Oil on Canvas, 1865, Lord Frederick Leighton, 1830-1896


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And How A Mother Shows Her Care

And how a mother shows her care
She sees the loss, the pain but does not despair
With faith and the vision of her child set free
She revels in joy for all that be
Acceptance, gratitude, forgiveness to discern
Life’s lessons not always easily learned
With wisdom and knowing deep within her heart
Doubt, fear and sadness readily depart
A new path so shall she lay
For this and the awakening day.


Rose Marie Raccioppi


Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures, 1785, Oil on Canvas


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At the Start

Does that longing set at the start
At that moment the cut given to part
Held in a mother’s womb you be
Then with birth newly free
From lifetimes of pleasure and pain
Life now a newly set game
Yet the need for care and protection to grow
Discount and dismiss what you deeply know
And then I am as others perceive me to be
Lost I somewhere in the shadow of me
The soul sings freedom a welcomed refrain
Then gone the shadow then gone the pain
The longing that had its start
In this moment does depart
And I in freedom and light cease to be
Somewhere lost in the shadow of me
Guided by TRUTH and God's loving care
Stand I free of longing and despair.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Mother Combing Her Child's Hair, c.1901, Mary Cassatt, The Brooklyn Museum, USA

A New Path So Shall She Lay

And how a mother shows her care
She sees the loss, the pain but does not despair
With faith and the vision of her child set free
She revels in joy for all that be
Acceptance, gratitude, forgiveness to discern
Life’s lessons not always easily learned
With wisdom and knowing deep within her heart
Doubt, fear and sadness readily depart
A new path so shall she lay
For this and the awakening day.


Rose Marie Raccioppi


Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her Children as Her Treasures, 1785, Oil on Canvas