Moments...

embraced by time and spirit's grace

thoughts call to the pulsing heart

visions call to the questing soul

moments past be the silver treasure

moments now the alchemic gold.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Shadows Cast Gold, Watercolor, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, http://www.apogeeart.com

Bring Him Home (from Les Misérables) - ThePianoGuys

heart's sounding strings

soulful be the plea

HOME

Honor to the Omnipresent the Manifest Eternal

Bring Him Home.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

...so deeply touched by this sounding of vision and heart... 
Life's work... for SELF to be HOME - in the PRESENCE... 
SELF BE known... in JOYFUL PRAISE


God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there

He is young
He's afraid
Let him rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.

He's like the son I might have known
If God had granted me a son.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.

Bring him peace
Bring him joy
He is young
He is only a boy

You can take
You can give
Let him be
Let him live
If I die, let me die
Let him live
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.
~

And so...As I work with the sons and daughters of others,
my ever present vision IS - Inspired Spirit -
that loving flame within each heart that aspires to BE.
2013 has brought a deeply renewed purpose to this
gift of LIFE ~ Love ~ Inspiration ~ Freedom ~ Eternal...
~

Indigo Whispers

jeweled be this night of thought
indigo whispers to my heart be brought
loss calls as plea and pain
light ever the journey beyond the inane
a vision of beauty and truth to prevail
depth of breath to silence the beckoning travail
the night to bring the day dawning new
known be the grace of light's blessings upon you.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York

Indigo Whispers, APOGEE Vibrational Art, ©Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013.

Starry Night

the depths of indigo in vista far
veiled in the light of a brilliant star
feel I the beauty and the wondrous grace
within heart chambers the divine I place
with wondrous delight and rapture sublime
known be this PRESENCE such blessings mine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Vincent Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, Words: Rose Marie Raccioppi, 2013.

Its Claim

certainty be an ever present variable of change
what lies ahead has many a term and many a name
what with certainty can one with heart and mind proclaim
be it that the breath present bears life its claim
the heart in its pulsing passion sounds its plea
this breath of life, the gift of time on to thee
savor the ebb and flow of life and spirit within
hear the rhythmic beat beyond the oppressive din
heed well the sounding glory sacred and divine
hold in revered celebration life's gift of pulsing time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York


Image Credit: ©John Matlock

A Blessed Sunday... Play I the Light

So sweet is this song of the winds I hear
Bygone yet heard within my heart so near
Strings to sound within this soul mine
Play I the light of the firmament divine.


Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York 


Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, best known as Guercino or Il Guercino, 1591-1666, Italian Baroque painter from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna, St Francis with an Angel Playing Violin, Oil on canvas, 162 x 127 cm

Image in Reflection

This my image in reflection
Is what I see real or is it illusion and deception
What am I yet blinded to see
That lies in secret depths within me
What word now upon my soul be a darkening veil
When it is resolve and faith I justly hail
Taunts, taunts, no longer to hold domain
Healed be this heart, I longingly proclaim.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Narcissus, Oil on canvas, 1597-1599, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome, Italy, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1571 – 1610.