Ardent Command

listen to the music of the night

daughter child of the MUSES

creation's plea heard within heart

this breath of life such blessings divine

and so my purpose beholds this gift of time

the hand with brush and pen in art and word

this the calling calling in PRESENCE heard

the song of the many winds shall you abide anew

threads of SPIRIT weave a cloak of grace onto you

expressions and marks,  the voice of the hand

unto CREATION be SPIRIT'S ardent command

listen to the music of the night

daughter child of the MUSES

creation's plea heard within heart.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

The Night's Music, APOGEE Vibrational Art, http://www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com

Daughter Child Of The Muses

Daughter Child of the Muses
on the altar of your soul
betrothed now to TRUTH
the light of moons, stars and sun
the song of the many winds
shall you abide
troves, garland, pearls of peace
crest your heart
Maiden Bride of Being
now and ever blessed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Madonna of the Magnificat, Sandro Botticelli, 1481, Tempera, Uffizi, Florence.

Hesiod and the Muse

Touched by the muses of inspiring springs
Such flow of thought to heart they bring
The wind a whispering song ever sweet
A knowing across time to entreat
And answered be in silent splendor
To beauty and truth thy soul surrender
A vision held with knowing clear
And banished be illusion's fear.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

"...Happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his mouth. For though a man have sorrow and grief in his newly-troubled soul and live in dread because his heart is distressed, yet, when a singer, the servant of the Muses, chants the glorious deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who inhabit Olympus, at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers not his sorrows at all; but the gifts of the goddesses soon turn him away from these."

The Theogony of Hesiod
composed circa 700 BC.
translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914

Hesiod worked as a shepherd in the mountains, as a youth, and then, as a small peasant on a hard land when his father died. While tending his flock on Mt. Helicon, the Muses appeared to Hesiod in a mist. This mystical experience impelled him to write epic poetry. Hesiod's major works are Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield of Herakles.

Hesiod and the Muse, Gustave Moreau, 1891, Oil on canvas 23 1/4" x 13 1/2", Musee d 'Orsay, Paris

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Maiden Bride of Being

Daughter Child of the Muses
on the altar of your soul
betrothed now to TRUTH
the light of moons, stars and sun
the song of the many winds
shall you abide
troves, garland, pearls of peace
crest your heart
Maiden Bride of Being
now and ever blessed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Madonna of the Magnificat, Sandro Botticelli, 1481, Tempera, Uffizi, Florence.

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Daughter Child Of The Muses

Held in the arms of spirit
Within the refuge of light
Daughter Child of the Muses
Your lyre sounds in delight
Strum the chords of the heavens
In this moment of thought
Feel the concordant harmonies
For nothing is, that is naught.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Parnassus or Apollo and the Muses (detail) by Simon Vouet, French painter, 1590-1649.


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Hesiod and the Muse

Touched by the muses of inspiring springs
Such flow of thought to heart they bring
The wind a whispering song ever sweet
A knowing across time to entreat
And answered be in silent splendor
To beauty and truth thy soul surrender
A vision held with knowing clear
And banished be illusion's fear.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

"...Happy is he whom the Muses love: sweet flows speech from his mouth. For though a man have sorrow and grief in his newly-troubled soul and live in dread because his heart is distressed, yet, when a singer, the servant of the Muses, chants the glorious deeds of men of old and the blessed gods who inhabit Olympus, at once he forgets his heaviness and remembers not his sorrows at all; but the gifts of the goddesses soon turn him away from these."

The Theogony of Hesiod
composed circa 700 BC.
translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914

Hesiod worked as a shepherd in the mountains, as a youth, and then, as a small peasant on a hard land when his father died. While tending his flock on Mt. Helicon, the Muses appeared to Hesiod in a mist. This mystical experience impelled him to write epic poetry. Hesiod's major works are Theogony, Works and Days, and Shield of Herakles.

Hesiod and the Muse, Gustave Moreau, 1891, Oil on canvas 23 1/4" x 13 1/2", Musee d 'Orsay, Paris

Brush and Key

The expression of sound with touch and stroke of hand
The embrace of a knowing in spirit's command
The call of the music the instrument to convey
Artist and musician, the muses at play.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

And to us it be known

hands in the creator's command
with brush beauty to behold
upon keys the heart be told.

on this day
6 October 2010
dedicated to
Serena Rose Emory

Vincent Van Gogh, Marguerite Gachet at the Piano, 1890, (oil on canvas, 40-1/2x19-3/4 inches)
housed at the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel.

Now and Ever blessed

Daughter Child of the Muses
on the altar of your soul
betrothed now to TRUTH
the light of moons, stars and sun
the song of the many winds
shall you abide
troves, garland, pearls of peace
crest your heart
Maiden Bride of Being
now and ever blessed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Madonna of the Magnificat, Sandro Botticelli, 1481, Tempera, Uffizi, Florence.