J A N I C E

 

Janice

Moments, days, years, the gift of time

Blessings be known within decades nine 

In celebration, gratitude and love

The grace of light within and above

A loving heart be hers known to all

Animals, their care and protection, a supernal call

Colors of violet, pink and blue, smiles they do bring

As too, the melodies that songbirds joyfully sing

A tree with a mighty branch and bough

With a hug she brings her vow

And within a whisper or a word

There be her love to be heard

When asked how do you feel this day

She is sure to bring a smile your way

For in gratitude and with a prevailing grace

She share's life's blessings from heart's treasured space

Her years of challenge, joy, loss, in wisdom now be true 

Feel the love Dear Janice,  

Happy 90th Birthday 2022.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Flower: Hibiscus

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The Call of a Summer Day... Passions Real...

 

Language provides an echo - it is not the original - words are representations, symbols, utterances, that the inner spirit longs to be known - to self - to others and to the ultimate SELF. As a poet, language echoes my heart's lament, my soul's joy and my spirit's quest to soar, echoes holding to praise and gratitude, a sounding sense of purpose... passions real.

The Call of a Summer Day... Passions Real...

Passion

the pulsing

adventure

of soul of spirit

inspired by

omnipresent need

Passion

the very flame

that lights

the creative longing

the quest for purpose

the reach for knowing

Passion

the wakeful night

that looks to the stars

the moon

the rising sun

the promise of the new day

Passion

the touch of the sublime

the silent yearning

the one known

the beauty perceived

the moment present

Passion

the frivolity of the flower

colors in radiant supernal array

the call to the light of the sun

the roots that reach to the depths

the bloom that prevails

Passion

what I dream

what I vision

what I feel as ME

what I know as SELF

what it is to BE.

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Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Image: Passion Flower: Florgeou

And in reponse this gifted from

Nesreen Kassawa

This from her home garden in San Diego, California

planted with love

Indeed received with love.

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In Celebration ~ Blessed BE ~ July 4, 2022

 

Visionaries ~ Builders ~ this the AMERICAN WAY 

~ Rights ~ Freedom ~ Liberty  ~ 

the call of souls in TRUTH known  

and so shall we rise, rise, rise, anew to the Light.

The airways, the media
Messages of oppression, 
War, devastation, despair
A plea, pay note, be aware
So calls each message
Take action
Be not delayed
By the lure of distraction
Act now for your freedoms
Are at stake
By the decisions others
Are in power to make
V for Vendetta, The Matrix 
So warns
Man need not be forlorn
In faith
With power
Noble light and deed
Let us again take hold
And live
Freedom's creed
The ravages of suppression 
Known and heard
So from the heart of Freedom 
Came each word
Declarations so marked 
To portray
That man free of oppression 
Be the chosen way
In Freedom’s light 
And with Freedom’s call
Dignity of expression 
A right granted all
And if with doubt 
And query new
A forum open 
For a challenged view
Hold these words 
As Freedom’s choice
Let not TRUTH be a silenced voice.

Rose Marie Raccioppi 

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BE it ... ‘"To Thine Own Self Be True"... a Great Grandmother in reflection... a Consciousness of DIVINITY

I was asked, What would you wish your Great Granddaughter to be guided by? As I reflected, the words of my favored poet echoed their wisdom... ‘To Thine Own Self Be True’... yes, know and live the blessings of your creation...

"To thine own self be true" is a line from act 1 scene 3 of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. It is spoken by King Claudius’ chief minister, Polonius as part of a speech where he is giving his son, Laertes, his blessing and advice on how to behave whilst at university."

Here is the full text of Polonius’ speech:

"There, my blessing with thee.

And these few precepts in thy memory

Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportioned thought his act.

Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,

Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,

Bear ’t that th’ opposèd may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.

Take each man’s censure but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not expressed in fancy—rich, not gaudy,

For the apparel oft proclaims the man,

And they in France of the best rank and station

Are of a most select and generous chief in that.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,

For loan oft loses both itself and friend,

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Farewell. My blessing season this in thee."

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And this be known as counsel of the heart...

When one deeply embraces the TRUTH of SELF, Bathes in the Blessings of BEING, Marvels at the workings of each body part, each cell in communication, Blessed by sensibilities, potentialities, holds love sacred, rejoices for grace, and the endowment of wellbeing... what another deems otherwise will not have dominance over SELF ~ a Consciousness of DIVINITY prevails.

Be this received as a blessing, as an endowment of GRACE.

A Great Grandmother in reflection,

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Ever with love Dear Paige and Taron,  

Mother and Father,  of daughter Londyn.

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A BIRTH NEW.~ And This Her Time ~

 

Londyn ~ birth ~ June 20, 2022

NOW the blessings of a BIRTH NEW

a generational gift of time and BEING.  

A welcome to my Great Granddaughter 

LONDYN, 

born on June 20, 2022

BE known the blessings of supernal grace upon

Granddaughter Paige and Taron, Mother and Father.

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CONGRATULATIONS ~

And This Her Time

No limit to where she sets her goal

Within all IS and in grace to unfold

A poet, an artist, a dancer she be

A sculptor, a builder, all marvel to see

A musician, a singer, an opera star

A traveler, an explorer of lands near and far

An athlete, a winner of the gold

An inventor with a new story to be told

A scientist with ideas noble and true

A doctor to be there caring for you

A teacher, a nurse, an entrepreneur

An antique collector, treasures for sure

An actress, a wife, a mother too

All in Presence in Spirit's view

Within her loving heart and knowing soul

Exploration, discovery, TRUTH be told

Tender her touch, young be her years

Innocent and knowing she holds no fears

Keep in reverence all that she BE this day

This her time, life, a toy with which to play.

Great Grandma Rose Marie 

XOXO

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BEYOND ~ the fires, the grace of BEING, in blessings conceived.

 

BEYOND

ridden with darkness and the wake of pain

the clutches of shadows and the inane

'tis not life that looms, bows and seeks to hide

but the illusions and hurts held deep inside

beyond all hurt, doubt and unabated fear

ever the hand of grace reaching near

beyond devastation and the din of despair

lies the answered call of light and faith's care

hold to a vision noble with unrelenting love

look to the vistas of beauty within and above

the call to truth, love, beauty and grace

be they within the chambers of heart to place

within the darkness be there light perceived

the fires, the grace of BEING, in blessings conceived.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Image: Astronomy Picture of the Day ~2022 June 18

The Gamma Cygni Nebula Credit & Copyright: 

Min Xie, Chen Wu, Yizhou Zhang, and Benchu Tang,

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AWAKENED...

 

AWAKENED

awakened to the brilliant light of the SUN

to the sweet sound of the song bird song

to the embracing warmth of the morning air

to the gentle wind that dances the leaves

to the pulsing silence that is breath and BEING.

awakened to this day, this moment of time

to the gift of grace and the blessed divine

to all that life beckons to be known

we the perceiver of what is given, what is shown

alchemy ever calling to the quest within

be we one with soul, beyond all false sin

awakened to the reach of hand, heart, that has a knowing wise

to the TRUTH to banish betrayal, deception and lies

to the past, to the present and what is yet to come

to the resolve, to the light, to a shared PEACE as ONE.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

AWAKENED: APOGEE Vibrational Art, The Sounding Light Collection,

©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2012-2022.

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