This Distant Vision

This distant vision
Touched by the blush of passion
Embraced by the light of TRUTH
Beholds man
In his own determination
Shadowed not by doubt
Imprisoned not by fear
Limited not by prejudice
FREE and known to SELF.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Explanation: Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, the glowing Orion Nebula and the dark Horsehead Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090310.html

In Honor of Lt. Col. Michael L. Murphy, USMC

Perseverance
March 3, 1962 - December 11, 2000

Memories of valor that touch our heart and soul
A place within our Presence the celebration of the goal
To reach our purpose with mind and plan
The birth of vision held by all of man
To hold resolve and endure all claim
To fire the passion beyond the pain
This assertion in what we do
With God's blessing brought to you
Relentless is the path the way
The spirit of perseverance calls this day
In honor of those who soar the heavens above
Our hearts open to God's eternal love.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Lt. Col. Michael L. Murphy, USMC was killed on the night of Dec. 11, 2000
along with three other brave Marine Warriors
while test piloting the MV22 Osprey Helicopter.


To Soar, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2002, http://www.apogeeart.com

Yellow Bloom Awaiting

The touch of Spring is in the air
Warming sun and melting mounds of snow
Twigs, broken branches and fallen leaves
Of the winter's season
Upon patches of new green grass
The peeking green of deeply rooted daffodil bulbs
The Knowing
Yellow bloom awaiting.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


A Field of Yellow Flowers, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Painting, Oil on Canvas on Cardboard, Arles, France: April, 1889, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, Europe

This Moment

This moment seized
and yet is free

The moment gone
and yet a memory

This moment held
and yet is fleeing

This moment sad
and yet is hopeful

This moment quiet
and yet is screaming

This moment now
and yet is gone.

This moment is
and yet is no more.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


From Series Profile of Time 1977-1984
The Nobility of Time, Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Cast Bronze Sculpture, 1977
County Hall on London's South Bank

A Saturday Before Sunset

No earrings, bracelets, necklaces or rings need she bear
Yet fully adorned and crowned in God’s loving care

Free of shackles and constraint of body and soul
Within all treasures and a found goal

She honors life in all its glory
Each moment now a complete story

And when she records with pen a line
Awakened and felt is the sublime

Who pray tell is she
She is the I introduced to the me

And in this moment of quiet reflection
She sees all of nature in full perfection

Bamboo leaves such grace of green
Shades and hues held by each leaf seen

Touched and moved by wind and light
Leaves in shadow leaves held bright

The quiver of the growing leaf, the strength of the rooted tree
Suspended, held and free

Running waters flow, a chorus of crickets, branches all a sway
A bird, a butterfly in luminous array

The warmth of the summer setting sun her hand does feel
And what is so distant is now and real

At a round wood crafted table she taken to rest
And marvels when catching sight of a bird returning to nest

An airplane above a distant roar
She thinks of how man sets himself to soar

Children’s voices at play are heard
Accompanied by the song of a songbird

No greater or lesser can this presence be
The I known here, now, in this moment to me

The deep breath of Being in great abound
In a Saturday before sunset the I has found.


Rose Marie Raccioppi


Wind and Light, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2000, http://www.apogeeart.com

Bizet's Carmen

Sounding waves of elation and fire
A rapture, a questing desire
Seduction and passion's plea
Longing now and in reverie.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Soiree Society of the Arts


In Tribute to a Performance Extraordinaire
Francois Borne
Fantaisie Brillante on themes from Bizet's Carmen

Zara Lawler, flute
Dianne Frazer, piano

Soiree Society of the Arts
South Nyack Recital Series
March 7, 2009

http://www.zaralawler.com

Rapture, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2002, http://www.apogeeart.com

Brush and Key

The expression of sound with touch and stroke of hand
The embrace of a knowing in spirit's command
The call of the music the instrument to convey
Artist and musician, the muses at play.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

And to us it be known

hands in the creator's command
with brush beauty to behold
upon keys the heart be told.

on this day
6 October 2010
dedicated to
Serena Rose Emory

Vincent Van Gogh, Marguerite Gachet at the Piano, 1890, (oil on canvas, 40-1/2x19-3/4 inches)
housed at the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel.