Fallen Rose: True Story Poetry

By Maria Rose Focareto

Fallen Rose is about myself, the author. It contains some unfortunate true stories of my life from childhood to late teen years. It is about a child sexual abuse, a child murder, emotional abuse, and drug and alcohol addictions. At least two are about people I admired who helped through those troubling times.
Fallen Rose II will follow at a later date and time. I had written and rewritten Fallen Rose several times. Thirty-one to be exact. It is time for my story to be told.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 4, 2010
• ISBN: 9781477178997

Maria Rose Focareto

My name is Maria Rose Focareto. I am 51 years old. I like to write poetry. Mostly true-story poetry. I live in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio called Parma Heights. I like it here. I love to crochet. Presently working on a bedspread. I graduated from Normandy High School in Parma, Ohio in June 8, 1978 and hopefully to graduate from Bryant and Stratton College with an associate degree in Criminal Justice 2012. I hope to work with troubled teens as a counselor. Fallen Rose is my first book. My second book that I will be sending to Xlibris is titled, I Promise – about daily inspirational sayings along with some artwork. Writing is my first love and my passion.

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Contents

Before I Had Wings

Those Boys

In A Wooden Box

Where Were You David

Child of Rage

Do You Know What You’ve Done

I Have Been Robbed

Bad Girl, Sad Girl

Bad From The Start

David and Thomas

Every Christmas Eve

Shattered Trust

Child Murder

In A White Van

Little Girl Lost

Don’t Want To Come Out

Invisible

Wilted Rose

Brittle Branch

I Know Who You Are

Mommy Why

Run Away

No Friends Allowed

Diarrhea Maria

The Teachers Knew But Didn’t Care

Under The Bed And In The Closet

Thunder Storms

Only Quit After The Hits

Neighbors Stare

Will It Be Me Will It Be You

I Am

Loneliness

Cutting Me

Catch Me Before I Fall Again

Without A Face

The Mirror Speaks

Where Do I Belong

Crying

Every Now And Then

Why Am I

Never A Baby

I Need To Be Somebody

Should Have

The High Life (Was All That Mattered)

Grow Up Give It Up (Linda)

Never Again

The Little Girl In Me

Grandma Pisani

Someone Special (Mr. Gaab)

Echoes

Listen To The Silent Pain

Watch The Fallen Rain-

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Before I Had Wings

A tortured soul was I.

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