Royal String Quartet, Górecki, 3rd mvt. String Quartet no. 3

The haunt
the quest
the search
sweet revelation
pursuit
contemplation
reflection
reverie
resolve
the music, the music
the sounding strings
the sounding soul
this heart known
vistas of the great mind
the Creator's call
the music, the music.


Rose Marie Raccioppi

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Astronomy Picture of the Day
image: Orion in Gas, Dust, and Stars
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We in ascension
the splendor of soul as it soars beyond all imposed limitation
As the GREAT MIND speaks TRUTH
SPIRIT in heralding voices calls us to the ONE, to the KNOWING, to the LIGHT.
So be the music, the music...


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Harvest Moon

The stillness complete
At the summit of silence
The grace of God known.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day
2009 October 3
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So Tolls The Poet's Pulse

The Poet’s Pulse
The cadent throbbing silent and heard
The pulsing hidden and seen
Emotions held and free
The panting of the poet’s palette
Words of color, hue, mood and timbre
Sonorous images of light
Orchestrated upon the page
So tolls the poet’s pulse.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Image, Pool Pulse, Museum of Science, Boston, April 23 - 29, 2007

"Throughout the ages, the language of poetry has held a special power to lend us courage, to give us the vision of those who endured and to hazard ourselves boldly in the world we must inhabit. The insights and imagery of poetry can take us beyond any small perimeter we have made for ourselves and call us to look life straight in the eyes. Once we establish ourselves at this conversational frontier, we find ourselves living amidst revelation, the recipients of visible and invisible help we could not previously recognize. Poetry tells us we can not only be found by a greater world, but also enlarge ourselves to become a participating element in that new future.

The task of the poet is to articulate the “it” in our lives, or our society’s lives - whatever “it” happens to be at any given time - and to try and overhear ourselves say something from which we cannot retreat.

Great poetry tells us that the stakes in life are very high and that failure is possible, yet it does not treat living as a burden. Suffering has its place in any human life, and in many ways is inescapable, yet it is also the hallmark of our incarnation, and one of the tasks of poetry is to show us how to walk into the middle of it and make a home, thus emboldening and deepening our generosity to others."

Institute of Noetic Sciences, Clear Mind Wild Heart:
Finding Courage and Clarity through Poetry, David Whyte, poet and philosopher


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Luminous Majesty

A path upon these darkened waters
The luminous majesty reigns supreme
Radiant, ablaze with rapturous light
Enchanted are these depths of darkness
Revel I in the resplendent rising sun
Embraced within the wondrous firmament
And known be Glory known be Praise.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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A Measure

A measure of love
Symmetrical perfection
One in reflection.

Unity
Duality
Unity

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Formula from: "Mathematics: The Language of Sciences"


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Visions Of Time

What are you supposed to be
What of you do you let others see
Reflections, images, visions of time
Seized and cast upon a lifeline
Whose voice do you hear
What is it you fear
Markers are embraced
Life is here traced
I journey now to meet an end
Where moments past the future blend
First born daughter of seven years past
Compliance, response, obedience to last
Love takes shape in what is done
Work, labor, you deserve not fun
Your sun does rise, it does set
Reach out dear child, you may touch yet
Work to do, people to please
A longing that knows not ease
Woman I am and I am led
Searching for one and I do wed
And with now a life of two
I try to reach me anew
Yet I am not to be found
In what is all around
I once again need to shout
This is not what I am about
Heed my warning call
Least you catch me I shall fall
And so a mother I will be
With sons that number three
A need to reach, a need to know
I must recapture that gentle glow
And what I am in life's embrace
Is me, you, time and place
And what I bring to you this time
Is but a shadow of a lifeline
For what I may yet know and be
Is known by the tomorrow in me
Write your story as you go along
Yes! sing out, its your life's song.

Written
November 5, 1980

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Three decades of tomorrows now past
New markers placed and have been cast
Sons grown and gifted are you
With grandchildren that number two
Widowed you have become
And so now you live as one
Vistas of knowing have you pursued
To bring meaning to all you do
Educator, activist, advocate defined
Knowing, understanding, no longer confined
Art, music, poetry, delights newly shown
Exhibits, readings, a blog, now known
My reach to cyberspace, my son's plea
Mom, he states, ..."this is where you are to be"
What you have learned, how much you do care
Post it, blog it, it is time for you to share
So off to blog land I did decide to go
There I found others who search to know
And so this tomorrow blesses me still
Tidings within of God's loving will
Shared with you this very night
The embrace of spirit, love and light.

Written
October 2. 2009

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Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Thought

Within galaxies
The mind of the Creator
From darkness evolve.

Thought as creation
Voluminous vortices
Holding to the light.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Astronomy Picture of the Day, Andromeda.


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