Love into Poetry: Special Mother's Day Poems and Others in Rhyme

By Celeste Nadine Gallucci

New Book of Poems for Mom and Grandma
Laguna Woods, CA Make Mother and Grandmother feel all the more special with this new selection of poems heralding their unselfish love. Celeste Nadine Galucci, accomplished poet and ASCAP member, pays tribute to all mothers in her new poetry book Love into Poetry. This poetry collection is rich in imagery and profuse in love, respect, and gratitude for the special women in our lives. Bring a smile to their eyes with this new book as an extended celebration of Mothers Day.

From the poem Your Love To Me, Galucci employs similes to describe a mothers devotion, Like a symphony of violins/With the sweetest harmony contained therein/...Like a choir of birds in enchanting sound/... Beautiful words echoing all around/...Is your love to me. The book is actually composed of three parts. The first set of poems is for mothers, the second for grandmothers, and the third is a selection of poems that had been made by Galucci through the years. Having had a close relationship with her mother has inspired Galucci to create poems since she was a child. It was actually her mother who gave the title Love into Poetry, a fitting label for a daughters gratitude for the woman who loved and inspired her.

For Galucci, her mother had been a model of fortitude, faith in God, and love. In her childhood and teenage years, the poet had been stricken with debilitating diseases that doctors thought she would not live long. But her mother kept her faith and prayed for her child all along. In her new book of poetry, Galucci dedicates her works to the woman who had touched her life most. It is also to her mother that Celeste owes her artist blood. The late Patty S. Galucci was an ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) member and wrote numerous songs.

About the Author
Celeste Nadine Gallucci was born in Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1939 into a family of poets, musicians, and writers.

A prolific writer and poet, Celeste has gained acclaim for her works. Her poems had been featured on radio programs and selected for anthologies including those published by Ella Fraser and the Salesian Mission.

Galucci was also nominated to this years Whos Who in America.

Love Into Poetry * By Celeste Nadine Gallucci
Publication Date: October 27, 2004
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 10, 2004
• ISBN: 9781465317193

Celeste Nadine Gallucci

Patty S. Gallucci was born with music and rhyme in her. She carried a tune at eleven months old, and composed her first melody before she was two years of age. She wrote many most beautiful poems and songs all her life. These include an entire book of bilingual sacred songs in English and Italian. Patty also wrote many Christmas, wedding, and wedding anniversary songs. Her works are a variety of many lyrical and musical styles, in the easy-listening category.

Book preview

LOVE INTO

POETRY

Special Mother’s Day Poems

and Others

in rhyme

Celeste Nadine Gallucci, ASCAP, ISP

Copyright © 2002, 2007 by Celeste Nadine Gallucci.

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Contents

ABOUT CELESTE NADINE …

FOREWORD

TODAY IS YOUR DAY

A MOTHER BLEST

I LOVE YOU

THE THO’T OF YOU

YOUR LOVE TO ME

JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE YOU

BLESSED

WITH A SMILE

ALL THIS GOES WITH MOTHER’S DAY

HEARTY LOVE

FULL OF LOVELY BLISS

GOD’S BLESSINGS ON YOU

FOR MOTHER’S DAY

THE LOVE OF A MOTHER

MOTHER’S DAY

YOUR FAITH

MOTHER DEAR

HAPPINESS

TRULY WONDERFUL

A BEAUTIFUL THO’T

WORDS OF LOVE

GREAT THINGS FOR YOU

WITH ABUNDANCE OF JOY

WHAT YOU ARE TO ME

THE BEAUTY OF HIS PRESENCE

YOU’VE BEEN WITH ME

GOD’S LOVE

EXTRA MEANINGFUL DAY

PLEASED WITH MOTHERS

SONG OF LIFE

MOTHERHOOD

JUST LIKE MUSIC

A MOTHER’S DAY SONG

SUCH A DARLING MOTHER

MOTHERS, MOTHERS, MOTHERS

A SPECIAL DAY

YOUR TENDER LOVE

A MOTHER’S DAY SONG

MOTHER, YOU’RE PRECIOUS

MOTHER DEAR

MY PRAYER FOR MOTHER’S DAY

WONDERFUL FEELING

YOU’RE A MOTHER

A GODLY MOTHER

THANKS

WITH A MOTHER

YOUR LOVE

LOVINGLY TO YOU

M-O-T-H-E-R

SWEET BLESSINGS

FOR YOU, MOTHER

THE MONTH OF MAY

MOTHER, THIS IS YOU

A WORLD OF LOVE

THANK YOU

A MOTHER’S LOVE IS FOREVER

I HAVE A SWEETIE MOMMY

SURROUNDING US

MOUNTAINS IN THE DESERT

THE JOY OF SPRING

A BLESSING

SPRINGTIME, OH, SPRINGTIME

GOD IS LOVE

MY HEART GETS SO THRILLED

O’ER AND O’ER

LOVE

To EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON

WHEN I LOOK OUTSIDE A WINDOW

NOW THAT SPRING IS HERE

GOD’S LOVE

A SPRING SONG SOUNDS IN THE AIR

EASTER DAY

… . MAY YOUR EASTER DAY BE

THE LOVE OF GOD

BEAUTIFUL SPRINGTIME

SPRING IS SO JOYOUS

THE REBIRTH OF JOY

A GARDEN OF FLOWERS

MESSAGE OF LOVE

SPRING IS HERE

SNOW ON THE MOUNTAIN

HIS PRESENCE

NOW

WHEN SPRING COMES ALONG

DAY OF DELIGHT

ONLY

GOD’S COUNTRY

GOD MAKES IT SO

WATCHING

SWEET LOVE

HE MAKES

SEASHELLS

GOD LOVES YOU

GOD’S WONDERFUL FRESH AIR

COLORFUL SONG

GOD’S LIGHT

THE FRAGRANCE OF SPRING

TENDER AND SWEET

HEAVENLY

HE REIGNS

THE CHERRY TREE

I THINK OF GOD

SUNSHINE

SMILE

THE MORNING SUN

THERE IS GOD’S LOVE

THE BEAUTY OF SPRINGTIME

TODAY IS SPECIAL

WISHES OF LOVE

HEART OF A GARDEN OF FLOWERS

RAINBOW MUSIC

GOD’S RAINBOW OF LOVE

RAINBOW IN YOUR SKY

GOD’S RAINBOW AND SONG

IN GOD’S RAINBOW

THE SONG OF A RAINBOW

BEAUTIFUL RAINBOW OF PROMISE

WITH GOD

NOT ALONE

DID YOU TALK TO HIM THIS DAY?

TODAY AND EVERYDAY

MY VISIT TO THE DESERT

SUMMER, WINTER, FALL, SPRING

MUSIC OF MY RAINBOW

HOW BEAUTIFUL

ABOUT CELESTE NADINE …

Celeste Nadine Gallucci was born in Woodbury, New Jersey in 1939 and was raised in Malaga, New Jersey, a town half way between historic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the famous Atlantic City. She was born into a musically talented family, some of whom write stories, plays and poetry, also. Her Mother, the late Patty S. Gallucci, was an ASCAP songwriter and wrote a vast amount of great songs.

As a child, Celeste wrote a few ditty-type poems, never dreaming that some of her future poems would someday be published in a book by Xlibris.

In 1949, while at camp, Celeste was stricken with polio and spinal meningitis (both at the same time), along with pneumonia. Her temperature was 108 degrees and she was unconscious for six days. Inflammation was in her brain. Her whole body was completely paralyzed, including tongue and all. Dr. Clemont Boland, who was the one who doctored Celeste while she was hospitalized, got on his knees and prayed, „Dear Lord, please show me what to do for this child. They gave her all kinds of drugs that were available at that time. Her Mother‘s faith was tried, and very strong. Yes, her Mom, Patty, had to come to the place where she was ready to give up her daughter to God, and found this very difficult, but said, „Lord, Thy will be done.

That‘s when Celeste became conscious, and she was and is a living miracle. While hospitalized, she wrote cute little poems about all her nurses.

Then … at the age of 15 years, Celeste became very ill and suffered a nervous breakdown. She was in a complete catatonic state. Just as 5 years before, doctors told her mother to give up, and that her daughter was doomed to be a vegetable. Again,

Patty had strong faith in God for her daughter to recover; almost constantly she prayed, leaving the matter in God’s hands. Well, in 1959, Japan introduced the USA to the medication called Compazine, and it agreed with Celeste.