RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Touching sorrow being gently held in a fragile heart,
opening a window, letting it slowly seep out into
life, causing grief-stricken tears to fall from
watery eyes.
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Thinking of others, joy standing out on her face,
reaching always without qualms or fears, to
others in need of a sprig of happiness.
Dancing, gliding, being an outpouring of God's
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Years of wisdom and experience contained in a senior
center add to the joy of life.
As people stand and walk to the dance floor, happy
just to be alive and able to bring some happiness to
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Merrily stepping in tune with a polka as it takes us
up and sets us down over and over again.
Bodies filling ever faster with the elation of notes,
building themselves in hearts of emotion.
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Sighing deeply into my mind, unhappily seeing
so much loss sitting there in corners, all alone.
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Chasing winter dreams into snow-filled lanes of
New Jersey.
Soft and peaceful landscape, glistening in
morning and evening sunshine, showing off all
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Shades of novel ideas filter rapidly into mind the
moment they are detected from conception to reality.
Singling out unusual substances and finding extra-
ordinary ways to blend them with imaginational
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Cast your lines into waters of life, catch the dreams
you have wondered in your sleep, awaken them in
reality's noon day sun.
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Rocking in rhythms with
our individual souls,
feeling vibrations of
intense beauty playing
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Spheres of doorways opening to existential
environments, illuminating many viewpoints
of totality.
Reaching into icy depths, foreign to my mind,
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