RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Walking down empty streets, noticing the signs ahead,
wanting to find my way to destinations into outer spaces.
Soliciting new dimensions of sensory perception as it
hits my mind, giving me pause.
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Shelving life, like my seven thousand books, not wanting to come close to them, not wanting to feel the anxiety of death looming near.
Yet, wanting to succumb to it's devastating grasp.
Sliding further into haunted messages of yesterday, knowing they will fill me with their distraught thoughts and leave me wallowing in a quandary of emptiness.
Sorrow pushing me further into pits of hell where I will no longer be able to get out.
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Surpassing trials and sufferings in life to go on and become a poet in every respect, literalizing everything that happens into words of beauty and inspiration.
Taking it as fodder for an eternity, energizing my spirit and giving it hope for the coming days.
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Tapping out secret codes from an interior space of imagination, giving a message of faith, asking for
prayers, hoping things will get better, yet they
never do.
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Oblivious to the suffering and pain all around, a maintenance worker rakes leaves out from around desert landscapes, totally into his own thoughts and life.
It's not his fault though, because we are all such self-absorbed people, living in our own worlds, trying to exist in spite of others around us.
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Regaling life with parades and parties,
developing social skills and learning
words, being filled with their meanings,
grasping onto beautiful prose.
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Deeply profound, set in the bottom of my mind, checking what is there in hopeful chests of thought.
Bringing feelings into clouds of heaven, as they fall around me in desperate moods of resignation.
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Aligning thoughts, spreading them around and aggravating them with an anxiety wrought from not having all memories intact.
Climbing aboard a razor sharp idea, taking it's element and behavior into consideration.
Acknowledging it's presence, now stationary in my life.
Watching it permeate and slowly take over little by little.
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