Curtains Drawn

the theater lights now low
the stage echoes the emptiness
the curtains drawn
the performance and the critic
the being and the reckoning
shadows hold the drama
light holds the vision
and the act awaits applause
the new script has yet to unfold
a pause, time's interlude
the curtains drawn.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Curtains Drawn, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

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