RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Saddened plight of living, falling over edges of past
recognition, taking all images and burying them beneath
waves of oceanless thoughts.
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Songbirds living their destinies as we listen joyfully
to their music.
Watching with bated breath as they sit and perform for
one so tearfully lonely, seated on a chair within.
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Throughout nighttimes of living, happiness dances with
calm reserve, praying for life-changing alternatives
while balancing on a pin point of final remembrance.
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Careening through skyways of imagination,
a pilot of words and meanings, fitting
them all from abstractions into intelligent
poems so literature can become them in fate's
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Steps are taken throughout our lives to be educated,
to learn the physics of life.
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Somersaulting in my mind, light, careful,
peaceful, away from life.

Alone, it is so wonderful to be in a mind of
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Skidding and sliding
into a mental picture.

Trying it on for size,
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Lethargically moving in time with a slow-paced rhythm,
helping me to lay back and relax.

All doubts and insincerity left behind in a bog where
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Slowing down just a little, slows down thoughts,
they become less energetic and lapse into side-
lines, getting off the subject.
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Clouds of being cover me in rhythms's pulse,
quickening it into what I prefer to hear and
write to, experiencing the beauty of listening.
Recalling every measure ahead of it's being
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