RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Treaties trump our Constitution, that's why politicians
keep trying to push and get them through, tearing away
our rights and freedom, through words of every treaty
they try to pass.
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Like ashes from a fire, my heart has been burned and
the wind of sorrow has blown them away in all direc-
tions throughout the universe.
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Settling into a poetical interlude, writing while sitting
here, quietly listening to music of Springsteen, enjoying
it sublimely and totally.
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Leaving kisses lying in another dimension, not taking them
with me for they are only deaf reminders of the love never
given to me.
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Living in this temporary world, finding no magic here,
only pain and suffering, there's no love anywhere, an
empty desert, arid, dry and forlorn within.
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Empty skies filling me interiorly, feeling the absence
of life drifting with clouds away into the distance,
soft echoes singing into mind.
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Touching upon senses of nature mixing with my own,
mysterious and yet known to my soul only, vibrant,
telling of the future and my place in it.
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Shutting off interior lights, instead lighting candles
of faith and hope in preparation of God, filling me
with bluened light of His Divinity.
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Bereaved, missing you, wondering how to live with this
broken heart, not wanting to pick up it's pieces for
then tears will fall incessantly.
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Walking dejectedly through this empty life, nothing to
live or hope for without you my love, bed lying empty,
sheets rumpled where you last slept.
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