Yellow Awakening

The yellow awakening is in the air
Bright be this blue morning sky so fair
Warming sun and melting mounds of snow
Upon patches of green grass below
Twigs, broken branches from Winter's storm now past
The peeking bloom of deeply rooted daffodil bulbs everlast
The quiver of yellow this day known
In the budding green of my garden shown
Awaiting yet present be this Spring's grace
And I in enfolded in its awakening embrace.

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

Golden Mean

I see within the form and structure of this hand
The calling of the Creator's command
Passion's pursuit be known by thee
In the grace of a shell, a bloom, a branching tree
The golden mean proportion divine
In this hand and in a growing vine
In galaxies, spiraling light and star
This the Creator's beauty at hand and in vistas far.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Image: Red Ice Creations, http://www.redicecreations.com

And Proclaimed

With poet's pen a quest to write
Of the eternal now be shadow or light
With paint, brush, color and motion
In glory be this hour's devotion
'Tis the Muse whose call you heed
And proclaimed is the Creator's creed.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Tyger (Plate 42), 1794/ca. 1825
William Blake (British, 1757–1827)
Relief etchings printed in orange-brown ink, heightened with watercolor and shell gold, with hand-painted decorative borders.

Within You

Within you there be
The light of stars
Wondrous galaxies
The call of the oceans
The cresting waves and tides
The cool ocean breezes
Within you there be
The rippling of brooks and stream
The melody of the songbird
The awakening of Spring
The warmth of the brilliant sun
The splendor of Summer's bloom
Within you there be.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Young mother contemplating her sleeping child, Oil on wood, 1875, von Albert Anker, 1831–1910.

Our children and the child within each of us, are to be known for their light, their love and their questing purpose.
We are to unfold, not confine, enhance not demean, embrace, not ignore, the call of each reaching spirit.

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Melting Ice

Melting ice in the warming sun upon yet sparking snow
The bloom of Spring awaits in the covered earth below
Songbirds gather at my window and upon high soar
This season of change to welcome life new evermore.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Melting, Photo: CAR, Collectible Clicks©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2010.

Orion

Ominous shadows and wondrous light
The pulsing array of splendor this night
Luminous Orion of brilliant hue
Majestic seas of celestial blue
This illume within the chambers of heart mine
And breathe I the glory the gift of the divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2010 March 2, M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion
Credit & Copyright: Ignacio de la Cueva Torregrosa

Flirtations

playful encounter
thought, brush, paint, colors, to dance
spirit's flirtations.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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


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