This Old Chinese Kimono

This old Chinese kimono a gift of days long since past
With gentle comfort and light feel upon this body cast
Worn, torn and tattered in spots here, there and about
Discard me not I hear its many threads cry and shout
I welcome your body and the feel of its warmth and pride
I am ever ready to wrap you, though old, put me not aside.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Kimono, Photograph, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2008.

Pygmalion and Galatea

Line, form, structure, color, their call I heed
The workings of the creator's creed
A hand imbued with the divine
Holding to created beauty sublime
Agonies and angels, vanity and endearing care
Shield and step ladder and an ascending stair
Symbols, artifacts, the manifest desire
Aspiration, purpose and passion afire
In resounding silence the resolve is heard
'Tis the glory of art and the creator's Word.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Pygmalion and Galatea, Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904),1890, Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm)

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Marks To Proclaim

And what is this need
To touch, to speak
To sing, to create
To read, to write
To make our mark
Symbols of the soul
These lines and forms
Upon surfaces vast
Movements of heart and hand
This embrace of spirit
In search
Marks to proclaim
The Presence.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



A Woman Reading, Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875), 1869 and 1870, Oil on canvas, 21 3/8 x 14 3/4 in. (54.3 x 37.5 cm)
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Firebird

Firebird, the flame the flight
Fills this chamber this night

Fields, waves and firmament
Moods, desire and contentment.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poetessa



with deep appreciation to

Sandro Russo
Piano
Firebird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8r4V0nkes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=carvO02AcKQ&feature=related

Caverns of the Mind, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2002, http://www.apogeeart.com

The Ascension

The ascension
To the light
To the all knowing
To the reaches of the gods
To serene splendor
To SELF.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Orion Nebula: The Hubble View
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) et al.
Astronomy Picture of the Day

This March Night

I hear the frenetic dance of bare tree branches
The chilling wind of this March night howls
The darkened sky lambent with hues of soft violet
Before me a gossamer veil of snow adrift
And chimes resounding laud the wind in song
This March night.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
Snow Storm, Oil on canvas; 36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Tate, London, Turner Bequest, 1856
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All Sensibilities

All sensibilities known to me
From passion I shall not flee
The enchanted call of the divine
Heard within heart's chambers mine
This pulsing flame and fire
The throb of inner desire
With poet's pen a quest to write
Of the eternal now be day or night
With paint brush strokes of emotion
In glory and in reverent devotion
The silence filled by music heard
And so be known is the divine WORD
The Muse ever shall you heed
'Tis the echo of the creator's creed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
The Soiree Society of the Arts
South Nyack Recital Series

In Tribute to the Celebrated Performances of

Amy Buckley, soprano
Kirsten Allegri, mezzo soprano
Carol Wong, piano

Robert Schumann
Viincenzo Bellini
Frederic Chopin
Alberto Ginastera
Mikhail Glinka
Gabriel Faure
Kurt Weil

February 28, 2009

Divine Frenzy, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2000, http://www.apogeeart.com