This Season of Autumn ~ This Sunday Known

the Creator's Will, be it known in expressions of divinity

the beauty, the truth, in an ever present and abiding eternity

time in its timeless embrace of change, evolution, and light

be this the rising of sun, a dawning new, twilight begetting night

mankind in joyful encounter and so we pray

nature in its ever present bounty day by day 

a child born and all in celebration divine

so be this gift of BEING and the grace of time

a life, a soul, to its eternal heavenly place

memories and blessings within heart we place

this season of Autumn,  this Sunday known

by the CREATOR’S WILL, truth and beauty shown

behold the wondrous in each breath that marks our day

blessed be the beauty, the truth, the CREATOR’S WILL, THE WAY.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo:  CREATOR’S WILL, Season of Autumn, CAR, Collectible Clicks, 

©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2020.

Such Be the Gift

Such Be the Gift 

Touches of crimson on the dogwood tree

'Tis the play of color in this season to be

Each leaf holds glimmers of gold

Within, the story of days be told

'Tis Summer's end, hail to the Autumn anew

Treasures of color in many a hue

Such be the gift of tree and time

The breath of beauty, the pulse sublime.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York 

Crimson Upon Dogwood, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

Of Leaves

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 this be Fall's decree
Warming sun, touched by the morning air
November's  gift this hour, sky so blue so fair
These gems of trees in colors bright
Behold the benediction of  Creation's light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Photo: Collectible Clicks, Rose Marie Raccioppi, Credit: Bruno Monginoux.

A leaf, a gem, a crystal, a mineral... and so I ponder...

Could leaves be the very messengers that speak the language of rubies, emeralds, jade, citrine, peridot, tourmaline, malachite? These among the myriad of gems of Creation... All Above All Below... each leaf, each tree, to feed the Earth, to transform the Light into crowning jewels. 

A leaf, a gem, a crystal, a mineral... and so I ponder...

Photo: Collectible Clicks, Rose Marie Raccioppi, Credit: Bruno Monginoux.

November in New York... Haiku Reflection...

alchemic moments
season of splendor and change
the grace of autumn.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York 

The Grace of Autumn, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013.

A September Sunday Morning

Experience the BEINGNESS of ALL
To BE is the ever present ardent call
Birth Eternal in thought, vision and wakeful determination
This the endowment of Spirit in creative celebration
The breath, the ebb and flow of time and life we embrace
And within our pulsing heart a moment of eternity we place
Season of change and our life to divinely unfold
Our light, our form, our vision, BE our story told.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Dreams Enfold, APOGEE Vibrational Art,©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013,  http://www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com

September Dawning Light ~ A Verdant Song

September dawning light and wind upon garden green

Touches of golden hue upon leaves now seen

A verdant song in wind's whispers I perceive

Season of change, nature's palette within Presence conceived.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Verdant Song, APOGEE Vibrational Art, http://www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com. ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013.

'Tis Fall We Hail

Glowing amber such luminous array
As time beckons the closing of this day
A season of change within this moment now
Nature keeping its ever present vow
Brilliant gold, vibrant orange, ruby red leaves alight
Chilling winds and a distant whistle call to the night
Sounding crickets sing this season's quest and quail
The crackling rustle of gathered leaves 'tis Fall we hail
Dressed in lavish color each tree soon shall be bare
Barren bough and branch then held in Winter's care.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


The Mulberry Tree, Vincent van Gogh, Painting, Oil on Canvas, Saint-Rémy: October, 1889.
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

I Look to the Trees ~ Leaves of Autumn

'tis the season of change that calls its name

these first jewels of autumn

touches of amber, crimson, russet and gold

'tis the season of colors bright and bold

the warming sun the air crisp

lambent sky of blue

the gems of Creation bequeathed to you

'tis the season of change that calls its name

a deep sigh and felt is the Creator's loving grace

in this moment within soul blessings of time I place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Image source: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/12/19/spectacular-fall-colors-on-view-for-all-in-berkeley/