Vista Of The Mind

vista of the mind
blissful dance of reverie
lambent be the light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Musing Light, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.

Reverie

Reverie
So hankers this heart
So sounds this soul
Quiet be
These prods of passion
This moment
The music
Held
Within the violin
The lament
The longing,
Resounding
Resonant
Yet silent.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Veronica Veronese, 1872, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British, 1828 - 1882.


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Sweet Summer

The thirst of trees, grass and flowers
Answered by days of Summer showers
Wet leaves and blooms glisten in the sun
So fresh this day with God's work done
The feel of grass now new below my feet
A gentle wind blows with fragrance sweet
Fountain waters in libation flowing free
Heed I to the rippling water, a symphony
A rose in bloom my hand to hold
Sweet Summer musings I enfold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Sweet Summer, Oil on canvas, 1912, John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917.


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Passions Mine

Seduction and passion's plea
Longing and rapture in reverie
Fervor, spirit's luminous flame
Ablaze the soul calls its claim
Rueful reflection sounds its cry
Muse be summoned to answer why
Enfold yourself in the spark of creation
Now and eternal is all revelation
Brush stroke of color upon surfaces vast
Sculpture set by the artist to cast
Carving of stone with the hand divine
Drawing holding grace in shadow and line
The sounding heart and reaching hand
Music, music, echoes of God's command
Flaming heart of love and boundless fire
Know I of grace and incessant desire
Art, music, words in prose, words in rhyme
Playful musings of these passions mine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Baldassare Peruzzi, 1481-1537, a painter of frescoes in the Cappella San Giovanni in the Duomo of Siena, Muses Dancing with Apollo

The Creator's Enfold

These thoughts birthed and bred
In words of musings to be read
What is real and truth over time
Are the castings of the sublime
Loss and fear one and the same
Call for blessings in God's name
Reveal the teachings to behold
Eternal be the Creator's enfold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

photograph credit to: wordofdesign.co.uk