The Counsel of TIME

I AM this moment PAST
I AM this moment NOW
I AM all TIME
For what ever was IS
Embrace I the pain, the pleasure
Appreciate I the awareness, the aspiration
Feel I the soaring, the silence sweet
Live I its trials, its TRUTH, its treasure of BEING
I AM this moment PAST
I AM this moment NOW
I AM all TIME...

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Photo Credit: Jack Dagley

Silent Night Rhythm

Loss and the beauty of what was
The winds carry the haunting call of past and present
The heart beats the memory, the lament
The soul knows it is the dark and the light
The morning and the noonday gone to the journey of night
The journey of night ever in pursuit of the awakening dawn
To this our life and love belong.


Rose Marie Raccioppi



Silent Night Rhythm, Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011, www.apogeeart.com

The Call of the Season ~ the call of the moment ~ Passion

Passion
the pulsing
adventure
of soul of spirit
inspired by
omnipresent need
Passion
the very flame
that lights
the creative longing
the quest for purpose
the reach for knowing
Passion
the wakeful night
that looks to the stars
the moon
the rising sun
the promise of the new day
Passion
the touch of the sublime
the silent yearning
the one known
the beauty perceived
the moment present
Passion
what I dream
what I vision
what I feel as ME
what I know as SELF
what it is to BE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Flower, Photograph, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2009

Language provides an echo - it is not the original - words are representations, symbols, utterances, that the inner spirit longs to be known - to self - to others and to the ultimate SELF. As a poet, language echoes my heart's lament, my soul's joy and my spirit's quest to soar, echoes holding to praise and gratitude, a sounding sense of purpose.

Opus 1

Brush strokes, line, form and hue
Nature’s Frames of Mind captured
Moods and moments of change
Present, known and held in reverie.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Frames of Mind, Opus 1, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2007, http://www.apogeeart.com

This Moment Now Past

This moment present its gift to receive
Borne by what you choose to perceive

Harken well this moment now past
Within a memory held, a memory cast

And upon its thought and vision held clear
The moment once gone is again once near.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalí, 1931, oil on canvas, 9.4 × 13 in
Museum of Modern Art, New York City