RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Rising tides, whipping my mind with different thoughts in life's abject emptiness.
Woefully crying, holding hands cupped in prayer, knowing there'll never be any answers for me to hear.
A fruitless endeavor, hoping for more time together, yet I try to get it to come about in unending prayers cried from my interior heart and being recited by my mind tonight.
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Tracing tears down the window panes of my mind, knowing that there's nothing to assuage or wipe them away.
Living a life in a hazy mist with nothing to erase the sadness covering my sight.
Looking out tear-stained windows, no reprieve in sight, all visions breaking through have no reasoning of why I'm hurting.
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Riding through the dusk, singing to nature as I pass through forests of pine trees on horseback.
Realizing the pictures that have formed within my mind have been traced from the photographic screens of my memory - past, present and future.
All of them living now in poems that I have written.
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Slowly floating downstream in a gondola of my mind, dreaming of being maneuvered down watery streets of Venice, Italy.
Feeling the romance in the ripples of the water as the long oars pulled us through the avenues of long lost love through imagination.
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Heart-breaking, nothing can stop it from happening,
life has dealt a severe blow and there's no way to
recuperate from it's total devastation.
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Sounds of rhythm being focused in this mind, lifting
spirits, soaring into many other atmospheres filled
with positive attitudes and pleasure.
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Recognizing pictures in pieces of puzzles scattered
across the planet, mind fitting them together with
it's intuitive senses.
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Singularly finding a way to begin a new solo journey
down a brand new path, created just now.

Picking up little treasures of nature, sauntering
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Tender and easily harmed, a delicate balance of nature
that needs to be respected and cared for.

Responding to the beauty of nature's landscapes as I
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Soothing music, pulling me along on a floating cloud
from within an inner universe, hiding, keeping my
identity a secret so not having to join in with other
people all around me.
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