Our CLAIM ...

Written in the light of the afternoon sun...

Our Claim...

Seekers and doers to life our claim

Visions, dreams, our hearts to name

We look to vistas vast and far

To the telling of a distant star

We hold cards in our hand

Seek we what they reveal, what they command

A rune we choose and be we told

A truth from words ever new, ever old

And in silence our pulsing heart be heard

Know thyself, Know thyself, BE the WORD.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Melodies of Mind...

Resounding be the pulsing visions
Echoes of melodies of  mind
Waves of thought and BEING held in heart
From which memories, love and longings bear their start
In tones and hues that call to the solitude of night
Be known the embrace, the melody of mind, the melody of light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 
Poet Laureate 
Orangetown, New York


Melodies of Mind, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 
www.thesoundinglight.blogspot.com

Whirling ~ Divine Frenzy

in reverie, in silence, in the wake of a dream
visions beyond what is of the waking mind
thoughts go beyond continuity and reason
colors as expressions of spirit
lines as paths to the calling soul
words as echoes of the heart
this the enfold
the embrace of what is to manifest
gestures in quest
a palette that beckons
words to be held anew
a divine frenzy
the surreal free to be itself
galaxies in flowing swirls
whirling PRESENCE
man woman all that IS
the BIRTH ETERNAL.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York



Whirling, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2011.


And so my purposes defined...

"A story is told according to which Saint-Pol-Roux, in times gone by, used to have a notice posted on the door of his manor house in Camaret, every evening before he went to sleep, which read: THE POET IS WORKING." Surrealism, Andre Breton, 1924

Paul-Pierre Roux, called Saint-Pol-Roux (15 January 1861, quartier de Saint-Henry, Marseille - 18 October 1940, Brest) was a French Symbolist poet. Saint-Pol-Roux equally created the notion of "idéoréalisme". He desired an artistic fusion between the real world and the world of ideas, in a Neoplatonic perspective. Neoplatonism combined ideas from Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and the Stoics with oriental mysticism. It envisages the human soul rising above the imperfect material world through virtue and contemplation toward knowledge of the transcendent ONE. He imagined a cosmology in which Beauty - lost in the real world - has to be revealed by the poet.

‎...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.

Alchemy

With rhyme and reason many a story be told
Of visions, dreams, conquest and gold
The questing soul the heart of desire
Passions, alchemy, flame and fire
No trepidation be there in this heart mine
For alchemy be the WILL of light divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day
APOD: 2010 January 22 - Millennium Annular Solar Eclipse
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100122.html


Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~Robert Frost~

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