Above wind swept fields of crimson and goldThe ascending lark in beauty beholdA soaring ballad trilling sweetWind and wings in destiny meet.Rose Marie Raccioppi
Wheat Field with a Lark, 1887, Museum: Rijksmuseum Van Gogh, Amsterdam, Holland, Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890.
"I know what you said to me..."
with color, paint and brush ...ever this heart you touch...
with knowing and pain beyond conceal ... beauty there be ever to reveal...
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
http://www.filefreak.com/files/122682_dcm4a/Vaughan%20Williams%20-%20The%20Lark%20Ascending.mp3
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Wings of heaven's lightBeauty of the Divine in flightDelicate is your touch and feelSublime be known in Spirit real.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
Photo: Butterfly Bliss, Ing Van De Vyver, 2010.
The mounting quest and fervor realThis heart knows not to concealOpen to feel, long and mark desirePleading passion, flame and fireQuiet the repose and soft the slumberNothing shall restrain or encumberI willing to heed passion's pleaIn all sensibilities I not fleeEach shade, hue, timbre and toneI in your Presence, One and aloneRippling waves of time and placeKnow I the rapture of God's grace.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
Frames of Mind, Opus 1, Watercolor, Rose Marie Raccioppi, Conceptual, http://www.apogeeart.com
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And what is this need
To touch, to speak
To sing, to create
To read, to write
To make our mark
Symbols of the soul
These lines and forms
Upon surfaces vast
Movements of heart and hand
This embrace of spirit
In search
Marks to proclaim
The Presence.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
Favourite lines, writing with a fountain pen. Photograph: David Sillitoe
The sun and moon I do seeIn this sunflower gifted to meStars and galaxies be they too shownWithin your petaled universe all is knownBloom ablaze with shimmering light of goldWithin each seed the Creator's story told.Rose Marie Raccioppi
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Oh, sweet sounds thy NightingaleUpon my soul this night I hail
And I in reverie and charm delight
Embraced by this sonorous night
Light lilting waves of love so real
All within my heart to feel
In this rapture now be heard
The music of the night songbird.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
In Dedication to Matthew Cameron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozoysappOp4Nightingale de F.L. Matthew Cameron
The Nightingale, Kay Nielsen, Danish illustrator, 1886-1957
Known by soul in splendor sublimeThe meaning of symbol, and word divineEver in query, ever in search be this heartFrom these gifts of wonder I shan't departStars by day stars by nightTwelve rays, sun, moon, in flightThe hours of day twenty four to treasure Twelve months, a cycle in full measure Across the heavens above earth and meTime past, time present, hold to mystery.Rose Marie Raccioppi
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
Credit: Yale University ; Digital Copyright: B. E. Schaefer (LSU)
a lone spirit in flight with a loving song, not heard but by his heart alone...
YouTube - Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Don McLean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM