Imaginings

thoughts
imaginings
the night enfolds
the silence echoes
what be these
vesper incantations
wild and contained
luminous and shadowed
expansive and finite
transformative and fixed
structured and free
thoughts
imaginings
the night enfolds.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


The Night Enfolds, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.

‎...from... visions and words... Light Streams

haiku reflections

within thoughts conceived
in the vista of my mind
light streams in glory.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Light Streams, Image: ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.

Echoes of Many Voices

Within this very moment
And seven scores past
Echoes of many voices
Upon pages in words cast
Hearts aquiver, souls in quest
Thoughts, perceptions, truth
Love, purpose, to hail our behest.

Longings, reflections, grace and gratitude
Within wisdom's heart be they ever mine
Words of thinkers, lovers, the moods of a day
And the touch of the known Divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


"Words are things, and a small drop of ink
falling like dew upon a thought
produces that which makes
thousands, perhaps millions, think."

Lord Byron, 1788-1824


My son Christopher lovingly gifts to me

"The Finer Things of Life"
A Compilation by H.S.
The Rosemary Booklets
London
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd.

A collector's booklet treasure


"The Finer Things of Life," Book Photo, CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.