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    Songbirds
    Songbirds
    Songbirds
    Ebook105 pages29 minutes

    Songbirds

    By RoseAnna Lucarelli

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewman Springs Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateMar 15, 2023
    ISBN9781638816638
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      Songbirds - RoseAnna Lucarelli

      Table of Contents

      Title

      Copyright

      Poems

      Private Collection

      Mamma

      Mother's Love

      Mother's Touch

      Papa

      Papa's Blue Sweater

      Cherub

      My Christmas Child

      The Adopted Daughter

      One Love

      Love: Certain Bet

      My Valentine

      Wind Songs

      Fare Thee Well

      Beloved Stranger

      Flight Companions

      Windowsill

      Sun Sparrow

      Robin Red Breast

      The Photograph Album

      L'chaim

      Life and Death

      Enmeshed

      Greed

      Sweet Revenge

      Erosion

      Kindness

      Redemption

      Forgive

      Barely

      Equality

      Find Me

      Street Walker's Lament

      Lamb of Gods

      Happiness

      Humelah Himalaya

      Sir Barrymore

      The Miser

      The Lawyer and the Rapist

      Blind Mice

      A Somebody

      Sunday School Children

      Our Beastly Old Chair

      Foster Puppy

      Rao's Christmas Card

      Tributes

      Maria Regina Lucarelli

      Filippo Lucarelli

      Nonfiction

      Our Heroine: My Dog Cheri

      Saint Frances Cabrini, Night Visitor

      Family Photographs

      Acknowledgments

      Credits

      Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, and Screenplay

      Article about the author

      Expecting rejection but accepted by first publisher!

      About the Author

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      Songbirds

      RoseAnna Lucarelli

      Copyright © 2023 RoseAnna Lucarelli

      All rights reserved

      First Edition

      NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

      320 Broad Street

      Red Bank, NJ 07701

      First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2023

      Cover art, design, and photograph by RoseAnna Lucarelli

      ISBN 978-1-63881-662-1 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-63881-663-8 (Digital)

      Printed in the United States of America

      To my beloved parents, Maria Regina Lucarelli and Filippo Lucarelli. You gave me all I need to love, live, paint, write, and teach. Thank you for my life, proud heritage, and vision.

      To our everlasting love,

      Rosa

      Poems

      Private Collection

      A treasured mine richly ored

      Boasts a cache of diamonds and gold

      Violet amethysts are secretly stored

      Its map is known only to me

      And the misty whispering sea

      Delighting us in our quiet mystery

      Proudly silent it shall be

      Until time unseals a rare beauty

      Opening portals for suns to see

      Ice storms shall strengthen

      My love's private collection

      Until my weathered reflection

      Invites hope's recollection

      Bathing the treasures it holds,

      The sea shall finally speak bold

      Blessing all jewels unsold

      And the mystery shall unfold

      Mamma

      Mamma embraced Responsibility

      Gave it a name:

      Me

      Mother's Love

      A mother's love has no bounds

      Without an ending, without a plan

      Kind beginnings herald a soft sound

      Promising hope throughout the land

      A mother's gift is never lost

      Finding us in our secret hiding places

      Embracing us when we need it most

      Guiding our spirit in all our races

      Kind beginnings herald a soft sound

      In a love never lost and always found

      Mother's Touch

      Mother's silent eyes remember

      Her baby's windswept curl

      And greet us once and again

      In a stranger's

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