Dressing Up

Many a wonder deep deep inside
A princess, a queen, who shall decide
A crown, a cape, and here I be
The magic of all deep within me
Stories I have listened to so very well
And here I am with myself to tell.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Dressing Up, Oil on canvas, Fritz Zuber-Buhler, Swiss, 1822-1896.




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Bubbles

Such wonder above me
Breath, pipe and soap, magical be
Bubbles with sparkling rainbow light
Rising, rising, take they to flight
A moment by and poof bubble no more
Fret not, another breath will bring a score.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Bubbles, Oil on canvas, 1886, Sir John Everett Millais, English, 1829-1896
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, England

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Woven Threads

Woven threads
Thought and being
Solitude
Moments of intimacy
With the inner secrets of self
Passion in quietude
To move this soul's Presence to praise
A silent resonant call is heard
Wonder, oneness, echo a repose.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


“I Am Half-Sick of Shadows," Said the Lady of Shalott, 1915, Oil on canvas, John William Waterhouse, 1849-1917.

Little Hands

Wonder and question
so fills the day
Objects and toys
for fun filled play
Little hands make light
of furrow and frown
Within their soul
they wear the King's Crown
Upon their throne
of majesty and light
They create a world
of magic and delight.


Rose Marie Raccioppi



Portrait relief of children, Ellen Mary Rope, sculptor (1855-1934), 1898.

Sometimes Real Sometimes Pretend

Seashells hold the whispers of wind and sea
All of life becomes known to me
A world of wonder and wishes of no end
Sometimes real sometimes pretend.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986, The Shell, 1934, charcoal on laid paper
From the Collection of Dorothy Braude Edinburg

Heart and Home

Within these walls the waling labor and the promise of a new day
Upon these floors the heavy burdens and the knowing of The Way
Within these chambers of heart and home reverie and reflection
The searching wave of wonder and awe crests with God's perfection
No promise or lament need be silenced or denied its haunting call
Within moments Now the pulsing passion of Presence, The All
The rooms of this home bear sounds and visions of day's gone by
Beauty held in music, art, the gifts of man, child, earth, sea and sky
The noonday sun touches this winter day with warming light
From each window I look to sky, trees and leaves in wind's flight
This deep captivating call of heart and home in silence I do ever hear
I know of God, this moment, and faith in a tomorrow of banished fear.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Heart and Home, Photograph, Christopher A. Raccioppi, 2008