RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Superimposing images onto yesterday's thoughts, enlightening precious gems of creativeness as they are discovered underneath piles of leaves, raked up for inner ideas.
Gathering flexibility, becoming an agile being, testing strength of beginning character while selecting tinsel strands of intelligence to add to a collective repertoire of written meanings, becoming episodes of learning.
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Holding hands, glances, and one another's hearts
in gentle cradles of elderly hopes.
As they pray for someone to share the remainders
of their lives with.
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Walking tightropes of life, wavering in heights of environmental duress.
Existing in plain sight, ineffectual at best, riding through life in a coffin filled with satin and lace.
Shining up ahead, a motorcycle's awaiting my essence.
Stepping and riding into sunsets of existential patterns, set up in pathways of yesterday's images.
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Exercising thoughts in succession, giving them each careful, spontaneous consideration.
Watching each one gymnastically fit in a routine and be selected to fill in meanings and definitions in poems.
A fitting tribute to the liberty and freedom of my mind through intellectual imagination.
Giving a reprieve from the mundane occasions of life and it's trials.
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Difficulties abound in life,
yet we continue to move forward,
making our way towards the end of our days.
A total commitment of human nature
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Soaring above life, stretching it's boundaries, not
wanting to be limited between it's tight constraints.
Lifting me beyond what I've always known.
Splendid beauty gyrating before me in colorful array,
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Listening to music, feeling the liberty and freedom of it's rhythm, lifting me spiritually.
Recognizing the beauty of life in every melody I hear, and being carried away with it's airy lightness.
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Gathering pillows of regret, setting them upon a couch of memories, hoping they'll mesh and find an empathy weighing upon my heart.
Solace doesn't come easily, I sit and contemplate every angle seen in poetic lights.
Walling sentiments on edges of mountainsides, balancing them with breaths of air as they escalate in meaning, melding
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