TEA TIME...

4' O Clock TEA time in Tappan, New York... sweet be the tea tag messages... out on the garden deck, ... sun ever so bright and warming, sky a lambent blue, a freshness so lovingly received...

Rose Marie Raccioppi

In the Embrace of the Warming Sun

The offerings of this day onto thee
Brilliant be the sun on the towering tree
Gems of color in glorious array to behold
Crimson, gold, russet, Autumn’s story told 
Birds in flight, their sweet song now be heard
Known be Creation’s Love, Creation’s WORD
Fluttering leaves to blanket the ground
As above, so below, gifts of grace be they found.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

...and this outside my window...

Spring This day

...this mid day hour...in Tappan, New York


the bloom of Spring
this very day
white and golden jewels
in treasured array
crocus and daffodil
greet the warming sun
and lambent sky
hear the chorus
songbirds sing near by
behold these gifts
ever divine
the bloom of Spring
beauty sublime.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


White and Golden Jewels, Photo: CAR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

... early evening here in Tappan, New York

the caress of the warming sun
the lilting drift of the hour
tender touch of the gentle winds
and so the blush of the summer sky.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Winds of Summer, Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, Skyscapes, http://www.apogeeart.com/

ALL Presence

In the solitude of these moments
The feel of the warming sun and gentle wind
Leaves in rapturous array, alight and flutter free
Ambient sounding, pulsing, heartbeat of time
This Autumn season of change
I, my breath, trees, the ALL presence.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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