2CELLOS - Demons [OFFICIAL VIDEO] ~ Grant not power to these demons of dark...

Grant not power to these demons of dark

Hush hush their haunts erase their mark

Be free of judgments and reprisals cruel

Truth and Spirit of Self in light anew to rule

Addict me not to a false quieting of the pain I feel

Make the liberation from a shadowed self a beauty real

Mask not these agonies of the abiding soul

No longer allow deception to demand a toll

Pay not the price of life relegated to sorrow

Live the promise held within each tomorrow

Depression be not a donned cloak of despair

Hold the Faith yet borne of God's loving care

The gift of life and power of will in your story be told

Hail each breath, the cleansing, 'tis the alchemist's gold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

And if I

And if I a Bee this an oasis

And If I a Butterfly a universe sweet

And if I the Flower joy in the flutter of wings to greet

Beauty and Being in folds of petals divine

Be this the majesty, the bequeath of springtime

The sun, the root, the savor in its beckoning call

The rapturous nectar of anthers to beget all.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo: Anthers to beget all, CAR, Collectible Clicks, 

©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2021. 

In Response to HONOR ~ In Poet's Hand

In response to HONOR 

A Proclamation bestowed upon 

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Poet Laureate, Orangetown, New York.

... and so...

In Poet's Hand

and here this pen in poet's hand

with word and faith in command

a smile, a gesture, the warming sun

a creed, a mission, a task now done

'tis not what I alone to answer nor unfold

the pleas of need be too, your story told

all awakens for the vision yet held

purpose and right intention in glory meld

a thought, a quest, with yearning real

passion and desire beyond conceal

the touch of grace, ever spirit's claim

within heart, the calling of GOD's name

and here this pen in poet's hand

with word and faith in command.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

It has been said...

"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 inhabit. The insights and imagery of poetry can take us beyond any small perimeter we have made for ourselves. 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."

Institute of Noetic Sciences, "Clear Mind Wild Heart,"

Finding Courage and Clarity through Poetry, David Whyte. 

Blooms In My Garden

Blooms In My Garden

Such be the beauty of bloom to behold

Petals that grace creation’s story told

Roots feeding branches in an expressive grace

Splendor of green and magenta within heart’s place 

Chambers of heart in pulsing passion they be

The quiver, the majesty of bloom blessed from THEE

Emergent glory of Sun’s prevailing light divine 

Savor as does the Bee, the elixirs, the rhapsodies of time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Photo Story: Blooms in my Garden ~ Rhododendron, CAR, Collectible Clicks, 

©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2021.

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A Post Script 

May 17, 2021

Blessings of beauty, nature in accord this very next day.
Yes, a Butterfly in soaring grace lovingly to mark THE WAY.

U N B R I D L E D

He spoke... I listened ... and in turn a word...

 a calling to the Self... UNBRIDLED...

 be his artistry, his vision, his quest, his passion, his truth...

Unbridled be your genius in its expression divine

The knowing, the visioned, the calling of heart and time

The grace of Spirit to hush the discordant claim

Binding shackles be they no more in HIS name

Blessed by the giving, the receiving, heart and hand

Beauty and Truth in Life's command

Unbridled be your genius in its expression divine

The knowing, the visioned, the calling of heart and time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS FABI 

APOGEE Poet

Founder/Director 

APOGEE Paradigm™ 

Personal Empowerment Specialist

Image Source: Painting: https://turnerfineart.com/product/kathryn-mapes-turner-unbridled/

Mothers Day 2021

 

A Mother ~ Three Sons ~ and known be our shared...

                    Gratitude

                        Love

                            Omnipresence

                                Resolve

                                            Inspiration

                                                Aspiration

           MOTHER'S DAY ~ May, 2021 ~ I Rejoice

 for the blessings of life given by the grace of three sons. 

     

Outside My Window

a canvas to behold

nature in artistry divine

the white of the sky

illumed by the brilliance

of the sun's light

this so magically cast

upon the white blossoms

of the dogwood tree

as the glistening leaves

of the lithe bamboo

hold to tones of green

in reflective splendor

this outside my window

a gallery of glory.

the window open

hear I the serenade

songbirds near and far

feel I the warming sun

my words, echoes

of a heart touched

by nature's canvas

alchemic strokes of light

this hour beheld.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York