A delightfully spent Sunday in the PRESENCE of Summer...

In the PRESENCE of Summer...

the sun yet radiant in this hour nearing sunset

the air sweetly refreshing

greens yet lush and generously abundant

children's laughter faintly heard from doors away

I, in an interlude, a soulful grace of BEING

a quietude filled with the harmonies of songbirds

leaves of the dogwood glisten outside my window

sweet be the savor of the shimmering reflections

the sun holding to its supernal brilliance

strokes of gold and orange adorn the luminous setting sun

feel I a baptism of beauty

a stillness, a silence, a living peace

golden be this twilight hour

the endowments of BREATH and BEING

this a Sunday in the PRESENCE of Summer.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

~

The Primordial of Time

the wind in its whispers

the oceans in its sounding waves

the rivers in its flowing call

the waterfalls in its cascading 

the sounding of the universes afar

planets, galaxies, near and distant stars

harmonies of nature's glory and grace 

the primordial sounding within hearts place 

be we the harmonies of light and sound

within the marvel, the marvel of ALL be found

pulsing, motion, pause, a stillness divine

the sounding, the light, the primordial of time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Written in reverent reflection...

the ambient music, the song bird song, 

the harp song of the wind, 

the pulse, the breath, the cadence, the harmony, 

the PRESENCE.  

Image credit: NASA/ESA/ESO/Wolfram Freudling et al. (STECF) 

~

Sunday Morning in June... At my window...

At my window...

     The gentle warmth of the sun
          The room filled with streaming brilliance
               The sweet sounding song bird song
                    The glistening leaves of the dogwood
                         The stillness of the lithe bamboo tall
                              The hush, the quietude
                                   The breath
                                         The embrace of the morning light 

                                                                    ... known be I 

                                                    ... to the Presence.

                   

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Blessings, Love and Praise...

Blessings, Love and Praise... Be still and know I AM... 

Psalm 46:10 New International Version (NIV) 

“Be still, and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth.”

  ... to be STILL is to be in the embrace of 
Spirit, Truth, I AM, Love, Light, 
in this quest of breath ... 

 Called for is the awakening to the LIGHT... 

                        to the Love, 

                                 to the I AM, 

                                          to the Grace, 

                                                    to the Harmony, 

                                                              to the Truth... 

of breath of BEING

 heart to heart.

~

JOY

JOY

from the depths of silence
heard is the resounding stillness
this soaring solitude of PRESENCE
and the birthing of JOY.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

The Birthing of Joy, APOGEE Vibrational Art , ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2015.

In the Quietude of the Day's Dawning...

In the Quietude of the Day's Dawning...

Embraced by the stillness, held by the silence
Within the stillness the breath be heard
Within the silence be THE WORD
The SELF in stillness, revelations be known
The SELF in silence, THE WAY be shown.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Quietude, Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, www.apogeeart.com

Maurizio Bignone "In solitude" - when You must make a choice...

...and for you dear Maurizio Bignone...

Solitude

solitude

a resounding stillness to pervade

the cacophony of thought quieted

the grasp of self beyond clutter and chaos

the soul's call for depths of understanding

the heart's call for spirit's embrace

the silent the silent knowing of THE WORD

the music the music now heard.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

A Violet Cloak

 
 

I step into the night
a violet cloak across the stillness
a cool mist touches my face
a silent melody touches my heart
the vastness embraces me
veiled in this firmament of majesty
the Presence
and the I AM of BEING.

 

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Image, Violet Night, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

This Breath Known

Solitude
The quiet of God's grace
These echoes of thought
Hushed by resounding stillness of soul
The gathering of time
Moments suspended
Embraced by the ALL
Within nature's Oneness
This heart real
This breath known.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Quietude, Watercolor, Skyscapes, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http:www.apogeeart.com



Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~
and so the echoes of heart, soul, and quest, be heard...
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The stillness complete
At the summit of silence
The grace of God known.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Behold

Red and yellow blooms and brush of white
Waters in shadow, waters in light
Resplendent green, Spring's story told
A vibrant stillness I to behold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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