Songbirds (ePub)

Overview

Songbirds, recently released by
Newman Springs Publishing, was originally written 25 years ago during a period
of unemployment that led the author, RoseAnna Lucarelli, back to teaching and,
left her little time to write. RoseAnna approached Ms. Gwendolyn Davis, Senior
Librarian, 96^th Street Branch of the New York Public Library and
asked for a critique of her manuscript humbly bound at Staples, written on a
laptop purchased at a thrift store. Mrs.
Davis, acknowledged posthumously, took the time from her busy schedule
coordinating poetry events, to read the original manuscript and, unequivocally
encouraged her to read aloud at Barnes & Noble and the NYPL. She did - to welcoming audiences! During that period,
the East Side Rapist terrorized the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and RoseAnna started
Rose Petals, a fictionalized screenplay about a woman, stalked and
attacked by a rapist who terrorized the Upper East Side; the protagonist
struggles with forgiveness - a theme that has haunted the author. Forgiveness; Love:
Familial, Pets, Nature; Kindness; Time, Life, Death; and a cast of characters, beguiling
and dastardly, are themes the author has explored, hoping, like Emily
Dickinson, that she has written for people who do not read poetry.

An article published in the Chestnut Hill
Local, by Len Lear, Features Editor, "Expecting rejection but accepted by
first publisher!"; tributes to her parents, Italian heritage; a story about her
heroine dog; and photographs are included in the volume whose cover was
designed by the author.

Within one month of its release, Songbirds
has been accepted for inclusion in the collections of the Philadelphia Free
Library, PA; Warminster Public Library, PA; Doylestown Public Library, PA;
Lambertville Public Library, Lambertville, NJ; and Montserrat College of Art,
MA.

Wind
Songs

Wind songs echo

In a room called home

Opening and closing

Yesterday's door

Until I beg them

To sing no more

Chanting to a burning hearth

Flirting with each flickering flame

Still asking me to praise
your
name

Timeless fires burning long

Kissed to life by warm wind songs

Force me to remember

I am alone with the embers