Outside my window...

The cycles of bloom, the changes within each season, the placement in relation to the touches of the sun, the rain, the snows, the frost, towering in the garden places of my home, have allowed me to listen, to feel;. to commune in a language of silent knowing.

Outside my window

Know I, this Oak's loving gifts

Towering life, strength and beauty

Rooted, reaching, branching free

Know I, its splendor and its grace

Many moons, many seasons past

The fresh green budding of Spring

The full rapturous bloom of Summer

The glorious array of Fall

Leaves donned in shades of crimson

Take to wind's wondrous flight

Bare soon both bough and branch

To hold Winter winds, snow and light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

OCTOBER Mood ... here in Tappan, New York

 

Feel the change, the darker and longer night,

the glory in each leaf now russet gold...

and so the October Mood of Nature's Grace...

Spoils of Fall

Three scores of seasons has this garden tower seen

Holding time, touched by moss, and leaves once green

A blanket now of russet fallen leaves, the spoils of Fall

From that mighty mighty oak tree, bold, strong and tall

Leaves taken to wind's flight rest now free

Behold the Oak above, bough and branch barren be.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Pagoda, Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks,©Rose Marie Raccioppi

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And I at a WOOD TABLE...

The wood table holds the divine signature of the tree
Shades of russet brown in markings of age before me
The quiet beauty of time and strength in grace to greet
Lines, waves of grain, where branch and bough did meet
I behold the majesty abiding in its humility and glory
The towering oak tree, a table with its calling calling story.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

The Dinning Room, The Table of Oak, CAR ©Photo: Collectible Clicks, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2018.
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Weathered Mighty Oak... too soon gone...

Tomorrow my loving towering oak tree is to be taken down. It has been my companion with each season of change for the last 46 years, a symbol of the strength and grace I have been blessed to live. Recent storms have been more than this mighty oak has been able to bear. Limbs have been lost to the ravages of the storms. The loss of this loving oak is painfully sad, the memories are heartfelt joy.

and so...

Weathered Mighty Oak

too soon gone

Deep rooted and held

Your branches like arms reach out
From the heart and depths of earth
Weathered mighty oak
Of many known moons
Healed from the wounds
Of harsh seasons past
Strong, deliberate
Confident in your determined pose
Enfolding the winds and light
The ravages of storms 

Beyond your endurance has come

Saddened I be with  your presence no more

Within my  heart be our shared memories ever more.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Weathered Mighty Oak, Photo: CAR Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013.

 It is beautifully silhouetted in this evening sky
heard are the strong winter winds
  seen is the graceful dancing motion of its branches
 It is as if it is taking its last curtain call.
and so
APPLAUSE! BRAVO!

...the warming sun... the melting snow...days of a New York winter... Libation's Grace

torrential rain, mounds of falling snow
onto the receiving earth below
libation's grace upon land, farm and field
all to Spring's bloom and envisioned yield
earth and root so nourished they be
quiver of grass, the reach of the oak tree
libation be it present and ever so sweet
for the heavens and earth do lovingly meet
gift of the seasons with time ever unfold
feel I the touch of Spring's story yet to be told.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Libation's Grace, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013. 

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Spoils of Fall

Feel the change, the darker and longer night, 
the glory in each leaf now russet gold... 

and so the October Mood of Nature's Grace...

Spoils of Fall

Two score of seasons has this garden tower seen
Holding time and touched by moss and leaves of green
A blanket now of russet fallen leaves, the spoils of Fall
From that mighty mighty oak tree, bold, strong and tall
Leaves possessed in flight rest now free
And above bough and branch barren be.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Pagoda, Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks,©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

Season's Grace

Leaves at rest in colorful array
Such be the gifts of this Fall day
Gathered near the tall Oak tree
The leaves of Fall a blanket they be
Fallen branches and twigs of great number
Spoils of rain, wind and sounding thunder
With leaves alight the wind does bring
The acorns, the seedlings, for yet the new Spring
Each season's grace in joy to receive
'Tis the Creator, again conceived.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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October's Gift This Hour

As I step into my garden I to greet
The sounding feel of leaves below my feet
A quiet presence deep within
All calmed is the daunting din
From that mighty Oak tree ever strong and tall
This blanket of fallen leaves, gift of Fall
Amber, red, orange and colors of gold
Trees of Birch, Dogwood, mark time and a story told
Leaves alight and with winds do flee
Season of change the presence of Fall's decree
Torrential rain and south winds yesternight
Harken to the rising of morning's new light
The messengers of storm now silent of sound
Leaves, twigs and branches rest upon ground
Warming sun yet chilled be the morning air
October's gift this hour, sky so blue so fair.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Photo : Bruno Monginoux / www.Landscape-Photo.net

A Prayerful Haiku

mighty mighty oak
towering regal and proud
though laden stand strong.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Oak, Snow of February 26, 2010, Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks,©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.

and so too...

This mighty oak of many a year and seasons past

A mark of enduring strength in its trunk be cast
And as its winter cloak in the warming sun be shed
May it in life and bloom by Spring be led.

With The Night Rain

Each fallen leaf laden with the night rain
Their wind swept flight put to tame
A brimming blanket of leaves upon the ground
Quiet they lay, gone their rustling sound
Held still by the towering mighty oak tree
Red brown leaves on branch and bough high above me
Gentle Fall winds entreat each quivering leaf to fly
Alight their color array to sweep the gray night sky.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Oak, photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Morning Light

Travails dispelled in this deep breath of early Fall
The oak tree of many seasons holds the morning light
Reaching bough and branch create shadows
A dancing grandeur cast upon the yet green grass
So gentle is the sway of the evergreens
I too, move to the touch
Of the crisp morning air upon my face
The mirth of bubbling water
Circles, ripples, reflecting light and shadow
I too, of many seasons
In the grandeur of the morning light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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This September Day

The rhythmic sounding sweep of the swing
The soft crackle of fallen twigs
The golden leaves of the birch tree
This September day
The crimson tipped leaves of the dogwood
The green fragrance of the freshly cut grass
The yet warm moist air of a noon hour
This September day
A stillness, a vibrancy
Leaves beckoning array
The emergent colors
This September day
A palette of nature's splendor
A green canopy holding to sun's light
Towering oak, rooted and ever free
This September day.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Girl on a Swing, 1879, Watercolor on paper, Winslow Homer, 1836-1910.



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Weathered Mighty Oak

Deep rooted and held

Your branches like arms reach out
From the heart and depths of earth
Weathered mighty oak
Of many known moons
Healed from the wounds
Of harsh seasons past
Strong, deliberate
Confident in your determined pose
Enfolding the winds and light
Of this noon hour
Weathered mighty oak.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


A Study of an Oak Tree, c. 1638, Black chalk, pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on white paper,
Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682, British Museum.

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All Known

In this late afternoon summer day sun
towering above this old oak tree
sunlight upon rustling leaves
and so the sway of shadow and light
Trunk bold and erect
giving to branches high and wide
this mighty oak of many a year
A palette of glistening and deep green
hues above me
and to the West
a sky of clear blue
All known to time and beauty

And to this late afternoon summer day sun.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


All Known, Oak Tree Canopy Photograph, Collectible Clicks©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009
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The Presence

Budding green of the old oak tree

White blossoms upon weathered dogwood branches

Sweet song of chirping birds

The touch of warm winds

The light of the risen sun

The Presence

These gifts of grace

Upon this day known.


Rose Marie Raccioppi



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