RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Feelings of loneliness drip into a mind, stirring a
heart into remembering those whom he loved.
Lamenting their loss, visiting their graves with
flowers and prayers.
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Swirling lifelessly in a maze of confusion brought on
by fate and it's dutiful martyrs.

Hopelessly falling from grace as people are undermining
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Sorrow sinking slowly upon a heart of beauty, tended
with loving care and serenity.

Violinly playing music of interior grief, while
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Reaching into the past, searching memory banks for
times now gone, of childhood images of Christmas
in New Jersey, filled with snow and beauty of it's
stillness, sparkling in my mind.
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Waltzing through life together, happy as larks on
this beautiful morning.

On our horizon, life is looking up, we're together
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Silently mimicking life, living beyond it's borders
in my mind.
Languishing amongst memories kept in locked trunks,
to prevent tears from constantly flowing throughout
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Long-time sorrow, continually drips into my heart,
overflowing it with saddened thoughts of yesterday.

Searching always for tears of joy to counteract
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Staring out over a sea of skyscrapers, hoping to see
glimpses of our beautiful desert wasteland.
From this particular direction, other than grey and
brown buildings, all I can see is the sky above.
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Awakening memories deeply embedded in sleep, stretching,
yawning, emitting brief and simple pictorial images into
a mind.
Watching as they fade and wan, suddenly coming into view
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Reading books that flash into my mind, expanding
knowledge all the time.

Countless words spoken, always remembered when
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