RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Unwinding from stress of the week, taking the belt of strain
from around this mind.

Struggling no more today, easily moving through rhythms of
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Beating slowly, reaching into depths of being, realizing
there's more than what meets the eye.

Listening to the coded messages and writing according to
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Living according to the religious beliefs instilled within
since birth.

Loving the peace and solitude filling me interiorly through-
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Entirely enrapt in the beauty of harmony, taking me away
on tides of oceanic life.

Calmly floating gently into the night, never feeling the
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Rushing, running quickly into the desert brush, hiding
beneath a full moon.

Thinking that no one can see, not realizing that beauty
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Stars of evening open their eyes in time with rhythms
being played on horizons of yesterday.

Playfully taking toys of another time and using them
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Living in colorful rhythms, loving their essence and passion,
taking every fiber into depths of a mindful solace that never
quits it's tempo nor it's liquid flow of rhythms.
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Black shadows of nighttime coyotes, howling at the
moon, answering the wolves just beyond the ridges.

Disappearing down the mountainsides, saguaros are
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Drying in the arid Arizona heat in the middle of the desert,
feeling the intrepid loneliness coming through emptiness.

Fulfilling promises of abandonment, always completing the
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So many tears falling onto my plate through the years,
drenching the interior of this being.

Taking it down stairwells and into the darkness of a
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