Dulcinea ~ Within this Heart Heard

What moves this hand
Wherein lies its command
Strokes upon canvas white
Hold I to the perceived light
Color to embrace and enfold
A story within this silence told
Each stroke upon canvas to convey
What words alone are too pale to say
A palette of passion, colors of grace
Brush stroke by brush stroke, this knowing to embrace
Tones and shadings in reverence sublime
And I imbued with these gifts divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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

Dulcinea from The Man of La Mancha

Within Folds

enveloped in layers of thought am I
embraced within folds of the Word divine
a bud, a flower, a pulsing of this heart
brush stokes and knowing has its start
colors, tones, shades and hues, bright and bold
within each brush stroke cradled, a story be told.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Grey Line with Black, Blue and Yellow, Oil on canvas, 1923, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887–1986.

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Yellow Delight

Rows and rows of yellow delight
Kernels tender, succulent and light
With a bit of salt, a tiny measure
Ah fresh garden corn a savory pleasure.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



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Waving Back

Outside in the sun this day
At a table watching all that passes my way
Young mothers in anticipation of a birth to be
Knowing smiles willingly exchanged with me
A grandmother with twin girls less than years of two
In delightful playful encounter I to view
Young blue eyes catch my attentive smile
And look my way waving back a while
With paper cups and plates they play with pleasure
And I with smiling moments now to treasure.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


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MARS APPROACH (26 AUGUST 2010)

The Moon and Mars
Child of Aries, I, in accord as ONE
Brilliant full moon aglow
Haloed in violet, gray and indigo
Mars warrior of this night sky
Rays of splendor cast on high
APOGEE this August moon be known
Alignment of spirit and power in light shown.
Pulsing be this light within my heart
Love, power, light, ever the end, ever the start.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

On August 27th Mars came to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and was next to the moon, the brightest object in the night sky. Indeed a most brilliant night sky encounter! It has been calculated that this event will happen again in 2287.
And so for me, a child of Aries birth, a once in a lifetime joy.

In tribute to Matthew Fascaldi
A True Light Being

Past Present And Yet To Come

The wax and wane of the moon's light
The ebb and flow of the tide
The rising and setting sun
Past present and yet to come.

The question, the doubt, the resolve in heart
The laughter, the joy, the knowing wise
The task, the vision, the deed so done
Past present and yet to come.

Rose Marie Raccioppi


Sunset on Long Island, Oil on canvas, 1939, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986.

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All Time All Place

It is the silence that is heard
The din holds blind the given WORD
It is the heart that seeks and finds
Beyond the trappings of the mind
It is the soul in its knowing care
That soars beyond the darkness of despair
It is love eternal in its gift of grace
That brings as ONE all time, all place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



Aurora Borealis, NASA, Space Shuttle Endeavor astronauts, 1992, http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/features/north_pole.html


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