With Paint and Brush

The essence, the sense, the impression
The gratitude, the celebration, the expression
A word, a gesture, a knowing glance
A readiness, a preparation, a positioned stance
To listen, to see, to feel, to be the need
And with paint and brush echo a creed
Cast upon the paper pristine and white
The sounds, the touch, the blessed delight.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Frames of Mind, Opus 5, Watercolor, Conceptual, Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

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This painting is one of ten in a series called, Frames of Mind, Opus 1 through 10. Each painting in this series is an orchestration of moods, impressions from nature's glory, feelings, the frames of mind that bring forward our responses to life's offerings, be they calm, chaotic, flowing, bright, dark, clear or shadowed.

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Late Summer Sun

The warmth of the late Summer sun I yet feel
Whispers of the changing season this day to reveal
Vibrant strokes of yellow upon birch tree leaves
Taken alight by this day's caressing breeze
A calm resolve, Summer's bloom hushed in fulfillment array
Trees, brush, fields of green, readied for the Fall parlay.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



View on the Catskill, Early Autumn (detail), Oil on canvas, 1836–1837, Thomas Cole, 1801–1848, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


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Bubbles

Such wonder above me
Breath, pipe and soap, magical be
Bubbles with sparkling rainbow light
Rising, rising, take they to flight
A moment by and poof bubble no more
Fret not, another breath will bring a score.

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Bubbles, Oil on canvas, 1886, Sir John Everett Millais, English, 1829-1896
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, England

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Vespertine

Vespertine to call
Image of the Infinite
Illume be the dark.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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


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Heavenly Foray

Radiant, ablaze be the heavenly foray
Spectrum of stars in luminous array
A palette of color, the Creator's Art
From which beauty and grace have their start
Constant and changing be each fervent star
The Presence of Creation known from afar.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Image Credit: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090828.html
NGC 7822 in Cepheus
Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman


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In the Fold of the Muse Divine

The whispers are ever to be heard
in a wind song a voiceless word
In the fold of the muse divine
beyond all space and time
This eternal call of spirit's reach
upon your soul to bequeath
The giving over is the receiving
and real becomes the believing
Known be truth and splendor
to destiny's purpose surrender.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Photograph, White Flower, C.AR, Collectible Clicks, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi 2009.


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Ravage Not

Ravage not the land nor sea
Heed the echoed cry and plea
Heard in the crashing wave and thunderous sky
In valleys, plains and mountains high
Hold this Earth in reverent care
Protect our gifts of water and air
Take not in abuse a mineral or gem
Behold the wonder of each bloom, leaf and stem
Trees to flourish, 'tis bounty's call
The knowing grace of Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
Earth, animals, a you, a me
Nurture wise and abundance be.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

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