Poetry in expressive awakenings, painting in felt awakenings, and so self BE known in its supernal quest... What Be...

What Be

what be my thinking this day

what perceptions will mark the way

what memories shall I behold

what story shall there be told

will this day be its glory new

will it be shadowed by doubts held true

dispel the veils of doubt and fear

dispel illusions of loss, pain and tear

know that all in its own destined way

brings meaning and purpose to our day

beyond all hurt, betrayal and demise

is the seeking and the word of the wise

the waxing and waning to prevail

the splendor of light shall ever we hail

know with faith and an abiding grace

that within our heart destiny has its place

it shall be ours ever to have and to hold

this THE WORD with love and shadows cast gold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Shadows Cast Gold, Watercolor, Skyscapes, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013,

What comes to BE ~ a Birth Eternal

YES… the MUSE makes its presence known. This the moment to hush the clamor, to rise above task and deed, to allow what flows within you to be honored by its expression.  Passion, palette and brush unrestrained, words as pulsations of heart… and so "Moment of Freedom" comes to BE - a Birth Eternal. 

This painting occupies a wall that is seen upon entry to the APOGEE Acu-Tone™ Sound Sanctuary. Ever felt is the beckoning of the MUSE, the drama of the paint, the palette in its offerings of tone, of shade, of texture, of light. The inner call in resounding silence, be it heard.

Moment of FREEDOM

The shedding of shackles and confine

This quest of spirit and mind

The moment of birthing freedom sought

Beyond the illusion suppression has taught

The reach to the God within

To vanquish each false sin

With brush and paint I to proclaim

This Moment of Freedom in Truth's name

Peaks and flames of passion and desire

The light and glory of Spirit's known fire.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Moment of Freedom, 2002, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

Ideas Ideas Made Real

the play the theater
the drama staged
the brush the paint
the artistry unfolds
the line the shadow
the drawing to portray
the thought the reflection
the poetic word to convey
the vision the sculpture
the stone the clay reveal
CREATION CREATION
ideas ideas made real.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York



Still life painting with studio tools, Oil on canvas, Robert Talbot.
http://www.rtalbot.com/gallery/Still-life-painting-with-studio-tools-4.php

Michelangeli - Debussy Préludes Book II - Feux d'artifice ~ Haiku Reflections

Haiku Reflections
~ music ~ painting ~ word ~

this flowing grandeur
sounding sensibilities
hearken to the heart.

the night's majesty
cresting waves of violet
light within the soul.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Frames of Mind, Opus 7, segment, Watercolor, Conceptual, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

Rapture

This brush clean and bare

This palette filled with care
This paper stark and white
This easel touched by light
This quest a silent word
This heart a calling heard
Brush and paint in strokes bold
Form emergent to take hold
This dance of fire
Tango, passion and desire
Paint and brush yield and capture
Strokes of color, strokes of rapture.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Frames of Mind, Opus 6, Rapture, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com



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Passion's Decree

Strokes of color lyrical and bold
With line and form quest be told
Hold to this moment of need and desire
Portray the knowing, the passion, the fire
Hush not the refrain of glory's plea
Paint, brush, color, heed passion's decree.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Rapture, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com



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With Paint and Brush

The essence, the sense, the impression
The gratitude, the celebration, the expression
A word, a gesture, a knowing glance
A readiness, a preparation, a positioned stance
To listen, to see, to feel, to be the need
And with paint and brush echo a creed
Cast upon the paper pristine and white
The sounds, the touch, the blessed delight.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Frames of Mind, Opus 5, Watercolor, Conceptual, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

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This painting is one of ten in a series called, Frames of Mind, Opus 1 through 10. Each painting in this series is an orchestration of moods, impressions from nature's glory, feelings, the frames of mind that bring forward our responses to life's offerings, be they calm, chaotic, flowing, bright, dark, clear or shadowed.

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IS IT

Is it brush in hand and thought in heart
From which this painting has its start
Where comes this call I hear as mine
Word, color and form these gifts of time
Is it the Muse that summons the soul
Beauty be the quest, beauty be the goal
And when in completion a work is to be
Is it the Muse I hear in joyful reverie
Is it Truth that anoints each new day
With the knowing path of the spirit's way
Ever present this reach to do and create
Welcome I Truth, the Muse, Destiny and Fate
God be known in what I receive and give
This be the decree for each moment I live
Is it when faith and knowing jointly resound
That God and the Muse so freely are found
So be it brush or pen in heart, mind or hand

It is to be in the Creator's fullest command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Quest, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2000, www.apogeeart.com


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Heed the Hour

What allows us to endure such pain
How do we survive the bonds of the inane
What absence of what we were and are
Leads us astray and from faith afar
Blinders cast upon our heart and soul
Distant we become from our purpose and goal
Heed the hour present to amend
With the dawning from dark shall we ascend.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Beata Beatrix, 1872, Oil on canvas, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882, Tate Gallery, London, UK

A Tribute to the Amasi Trio

Heed Wise The Muse

Heed wise the Muse, your counsel of soul
God’s blessings to mark your goal
Another’s time and glory
And now ‘tis my story
Others have walked in the sun
My time has now just begun
Words of knowing within my heart
From this joy I shall newly start
Another’s creation in celebration
And I God’s eternal revelation
The plea from grace now known
I in gratitude for creation shown
The sculptor’s hand
In God’s command
Line and form to reveal
God’s beauty constant and real
Spectrum of color from a palette divine
Immortal the quest this moment be mine
The artist’s unveiling, the poet’s word
And the music, the music, to be ever heard
Heed wise the Muse, your counsel of soul
God’s blessings to mark your goal.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate


A Tribute to the Amasi Trio
Nyack College Trio in Residence

Sungrai Sohn, violin
Chungsun Kim, cello
Tammy Lum, piano

For an Outstanding Performance of

Felix Mendelssohn
Paul Liljestrand
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Astor Piazzolla

April 4, 2009

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Self-Portrait Hesitating Between Painting and Music, Angelica Kauffman, (1741-1807), 1791.

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

Is It

Is it brush in hand and thought in heart
From which this painting has its start
Where comes this call I hear as mine
Word, color and form these gifts of time
Is it the Muse that summons the soul
Beauty be the quest, beauty be the goal
And when in completion a work is to be
Is it the Muse I hear in joyful reverie
Is it Truth that anoints each new day
With the knowing path of the spirit's way
Ever present this reach to do and create
Welcome I Truth, the Muse, Destiny and Fate
God be known in what I receive and give
This be the decree for each moment I live
Is it when faith and knowing jointly resound
That God and the Muse so freely are found
So be it brush or pen in heart, mind or hand

It is to be in the Creator's fullest command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Quest, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2000, www.apogeeart.com

Frames of Mind, Opus 4

The call of color and light

Upon this surface pristine and white
Line, form, visions near and vast
Brush stokes of BEING cast
Pale, brilliant, hues, deep, dark
Surface holding passion, gentle, stark
Opus of tone, cadence sublime
Streams of spirit, Frames of Mind.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Frames of Mind Opus 4, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, www.apogeeart.com