The Blessings of a Birth New ~ A Mother's Lullaby ~ Sleep Dear Child

Sleep dear child, this joyous day
Sleep this night, with stars above
Know the light, of God's love
Sleep dear child, you'll find the way
Sleep this night, the day is done
When you wake, you'll greet the sun
Wondrous night, this sky of blue
Brilliant stars, shining new
Rising sun, then night shall be
A new day for our heart's glee
Gone this day, and come the dawn
You will find, a bright new morn.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Sleep Dear Child, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 

The Wind and The Willow, Publish America, 2008.

Sculpture, Pietro Canonica, 1869 ~ 1959, Italian,
 Madonna and Child, 1918, Marble.

~ In loving dedication to a cousin new ~

December 30, 2020

Eiley Katherine O'Regan

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Sleep Dear Child ... a Mother's Lullaby...

Sleep dear child, this joyous day
Sleep this night, with stars above
Know the light, of God's love
Sleep dear child, you'll find the way
Sleep this night, the day is done
When you wake, you'll greet the sun
Wondrous night, this sky of blue
Brilliant stars, shining new
Rising sun, then night shall be
A new day for our heart's glee
Gone this day, and come the dawn
You will find, a bright new morn.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Sleep Dear Child, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 

THE WIND AND THE WILLOW, Publish America, 2008.

Sculpture:

William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874)

Title: Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana

Date: 1870; this version, 1874

Medium: Marble

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...blessed hands...

          ... blessed hands that sculpt beauty and hold to truth
                form

                     structure

                          line

                               passion
                                    captured 

                                          be the grace

                                                the pain

                                                      the ecstasy 

                                                            the quest of BEING...

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Terracotta bozetto for "Ecstasy of St. Theresa", 1647-1652.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, "Ecstasy of St. Theresa", 1652, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Born 7 December 1598
Naples, Kingdom of Naples, in present-day Italy
Died 28 November 1680 (aged 81)
Rome, Papal States, in present-day Italy
Nationality Italian
Known for Sculpture, painting, architecture
Notable work:
David,
Apollo and Daphne,
The Rape of Proserpina,
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
Movement Baroque style

#Bernini #Ecstasy #sculpture #sculptor #St_Theresa #rosemarieraccioppi

Playful Musings

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
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York



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

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

Psyche Abandoned ~ Haiku Reflection

love's lamentation
the resounding pain of heart
glory and loss known.

this beauty of form
the grace of the Creator
passion of structure.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Psyche Abandoned, 1790, Musée du Louvre, Augustin PAJOU, 1730-1809.

YES

This very moment...

Yield to the Eternal Spirit
Y
E
S
To the questing soul
To the knowing heart
To the calling purpose
Yield
Eternal be your Being
Spirit ever Divine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi

This YES is a wall hung sculpture that greets my students upon entry to the APOGEE studio.
It is a commissioned piece that glorifies our gift of choice.


YES, Sculpture, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.



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Heed Wise The Muse

Heed wise the Muse, your counsel of soul
God’s blessings to mark your goal
Others time and glory
And now ‘tis my story
Others have walked in the sun
My time has now newly begun
Words of knowing within my heart
From this joy I shall newly start
Others 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


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Destiny Willed To You

In the echo of Spirit's call
Know I you shan't befall
In thunderous rain and in sun's brilliant ray
Firmament moving clouds of white and gray
In moments illuminant and in moments dark
You are destined to make an eternal mark
In lines and strokes of pencil, of paint
Upon surfaces ever vast
With clay, beauty and form
In bronze cast
I, in knowing and in faith ever anew
This, God's destiny willed to you.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Dedicated to My Son
Christopher Angelo Raccioppi


Pygmalion and Galatea, Ca. 1890, Oil on Canvas, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1824 –1904, French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism.

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The Awakened Muse

The awakened Muse in God's spirit known
By the glory, beauty, splendor ever shown
The warm rising Sun for newness and light
The waxing Moon for faith's inner sight
Each bloom of Spring but a beckoning call
For the rebirth of life within each and All
Music and artistry 'tis nature's grace divine
Muse inspired note, form, structure and line
The music, the words, the poem's soulful plea
The drawing, the painting, the sculpture free
These gifts of purpose, goal, will and intent
The summon of the Muse with God's blessings sent
And when the Word sparks a thought of joy and rhyme
A wind's whisper, a bird's song, the day, the night be mine
Sky, land, mountain, stream, lake, river and sea
A palette of color, mood, bequeathed in guise to me
The vision, the dream now anew in God's Word
The Muse's entreat to follow, to follow, now heard
Line, form, sound, color, structure ever in creation
And so the awakened Muse in devoted revelation.


Rose Marie Raccioppi


Rottenhammer, Hans, Deutsch, Oil on canvas, Minerva and the Muses, 1603.