EARTH DAY 2016... just B E C A U S E ...

                               EARTH DAY 2016 ... just B E C A U S E ...

                                                                          there is Beauty 
                                                                          there is Earth 
                                                                          there is Creation 
                                                                          there is Ascension 
                                                                          there is Unity 
                                                                          there is Spirit 
                                                                          there is Eternity

... there is the hand, the heart, the soul, the vision of BEING...

 Rose Marie Raccioppi 

Our Earth ~ Our Celebration ~ EARTH DAY, 2016

Our Earth ~ Our Celebration ~ EARTH DAY

May our awareness, our discernment, our knowing wise, as a community of people from all parts of this Earth, bring a renewed reverence to Mother Nature and her Divine intelligence. Let us rise above the corporate greed and impeding control... of those who ravage Mother Earth by pesticides, toxins, poisons, manipulation and GMO domination. We are more in numbers, more with endowed power, more with right intention, and must appreciate WE ARE THE CHANGE that is to BE!!! WE and Mother Earth deserve no less... all with blessings and love... Rose Marie Raccioppi

Mother Earth ~ Ravage Not

Inspired Spirit and Blessings shall prevail

There is Love beyond travail

That knowing faith within heart

From which a questing peace has its start

A vision beyond the perceived despair

So be our wondrous destiny in God's care

Light and TRUTH be they the resounding plea

Over our lands from sea to sea

Gather our thoughts and a new vision clear

Beyond all illusions beyond all fear.

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

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

A Feather at My Door

a hawk's message I now to heed

life as ascension be the living creed

rise aove the trial, the travail

in soaring spirit your love to prevail.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

April, National Poetry Month 2016

Aprii is National Poetry Month,  A Tribute to Leodardo da Vinci, 

Artistry in Poetic Dialogue, by Rose Marie Raccioppi, Poet Laureate, 

is now on exhibit at the Orangeburg Library, 

20 S. Greenish Rd. Orangeburg,  NY

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

In Celebration of his birth April 15, 1452

his genius

his gifts eternal

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

Leonardo Da Vinci

In His Hand

In his hand 

A pencil he to hold

Lines, shadows, delicate 

Purposeful and bold

Portrays he grace

A beauty sublime

And gifted we be

By artistry divine.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 ~ May 2, 1519, an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo is known as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. Indeed one of the greatest artists of all time and perhaps the most diversely gifted person ever to have lived.

Self-portrait in red chalk, circa 1512 to 1515

Royal Library of Turin.

A call, a message, a posting, the NEWS in headlines ... and so it is...

A call, a message, a posting, the NEWS in headlines ... and so it is...

Loss and lament in reflection known

The call to love and light be shown

Time as life's gift of days NOW, days gone and days yet to BE

This the very moment to declare life's decree

A visit, an understanding, we to share

And touched we be by the spirit of care

A life new in this moment to embrace

Within our heart of hearts FAITH we place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

Shocking Be The News ~ The Orchid Yet Blooms

shocking be the news
the orchid yet blooms
deception and deceit
the orchid yet blooms
terror and destruction
the orchid yet blooms
pain and loss 
the orchid yet blooms

a pervasive beauty 

in expression devine

beyond the shadows of darkened time

the splendor of petals and colors of grace

its message of peace in heart to place

its message of peace in heart to place.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Photo Credit: ORCHID, ©Jake Raccioppi, 2016.

Now Somewhere Far

Through the open window the train whistle is heard

In the distance a sounding of a journey’s word

Here then there the wheels upon tracks rumble they do

Yet  gentle is the touch of the night that awakens you

The sweet feel of a caressing breeze this moment  does bring

And known is this night and the coming soon of spring

Silent again the night in its cloak of deep blue and a sparkling star

The train has passed, the roar of wheels now somewhere far.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

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