Flight

...looking skyward...

a prelude to twilight moments to come
light yet present from the now setting sun
high above the towering oak there soaring be
a hawk with wings spread wide and flying free
time its ever present call and ceaseless flight
and gone the hawk and present the night.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Credit: Photograph, Peter Y. Chou: wisdomportal.com

No More

shackled no more for I am the wind free
silent no more for I am the thunderous storm
despairing no more for I am the dawning day
thirsty no more for I am lakes and rivers flowing clear
lost no more for I am the guiding stars
confined no more for I am vistas wide and far
hungry no more for I am bounty and harvest divine
this the awakened faith mine
this the awakened faith mine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Awakened Faith, Image, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012.

...this day in Celebration... On Being A Woman... IWD

Holding to the Wonder

Aware of the Omnipresent

Feeling the Marvel

Living the Aspiration

Fulfilling Need

Words to define what it is to be a woman
Come from the special meaning of who we are
With grace we receive and provide the ultimate giving
With love we nurture
With question we pursue
With pain we give birth and revel in its miracle
With persistence we provide
We are blessed to be
The receiver and giver of life.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Reve de printemps - A Dream of Spring, William Bouguereau, 1825-1905, 1901.

On Being A Woman, Selected Poem, BARNES & NOBLE | The Wind and the Willow by Rose Marie Raccioppi, Publish America | Paperback, NOOK Book (eBook)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wind-and-the-willow-rose-marie-raccioppi/1100867043


In acknowledged Celebration of
International Woman's Day
March 8, 2012.

Line and Shadow

line and shadow
a knowing to convey
line and shadow
echoes of heart at play
line and shadow
the revelation real
line and shadow
beauty beyond conceal
line and shadow
truth and soul
sought by the artist's hand
so be the gifts of Presence
in divine command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano Tori) (Italian, Monticelli 1503 - 1572 Florence),
Head of a Bearded, Young Man in Profile Facing Right, 1545-55.

Black chalk on light brown paper, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (21 x 15.8 cm).
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Upon the Farm Counter

upon the farm counter alive and green
the wondrous abundance of nature be seen
a grass so fresh its vibrancy shouts
this is what bounty is all about
harvest well plants that grow small
and those who grow mighty and tall
know that green speaks its language of love
offering to you its gifts of rain and sun from above
unto my table it comes to be
blessings and nourishment from the grace of THEE.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Image: Wheat Grass, Old Hook Farm, Emerson, NJ.

The Great Weaver

This ever present gift of time, a cloak we weave
Threads of many textures ever to conceive
Woven be the thoughts of love, peace and pleasure
And known be the blessings, a cloak of silken treasure
And if there be a torn and tattered cloak to bare
Know I the GREAT WEAVER with weft and warp of ever present care
With silver threads of light and golden threads of love
Weave HE will, a cloak of crowning grace, the firmament above.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Sky, photo, ©Cindy Dyer, 2009.

A Heartfelt, "Show and Tell"... Poetry, Art, Learning...

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Much love,
Rose Marie Raccioppi