RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Rising and falling into life's rhythms, enlivening spirits
of interior talent with a spiritual fervor.
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Quiet contemplation centers in later years,
filling our souls with love and prayer.

Noticing God in abiding faces, as I look
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Rigorously, fighting bad karma, stranding me in an atmosphere
of deepening sadness.

Tangling weeds around roots of life, thwarting everything I
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Being rescued from stormy waves of fright, jostling against
tides of eerie continuity of nightmares.

Forgetting insides of torment as it grates penetratingly
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Water trickling into pools of sadness, evaporating from salted
piles of dust.

Tear ducts being overly used with many questions being asked
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Figuring possibilities of yesterday's thought and focusing it
with reasons of fate and destiny's portrayals.

Magically appearing in tantamount mysteries, disappearing into
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Writhing and spinning to old time beats of 'wipe out', being
played exquisitely by the Blu Notes.

Pushing our minds past borders of rhythm as we coerce our
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Anticipating glorious nature's filmy haze,
decorating my mind with ageless scenery.

Focusing on idealistic measures as life
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Disparaging thoughts creep down sides of my mind,
looking to thwart good feelings and happiness.

Finding symphony's in minor chords, collating them
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Vestments of pious spirituality bless our souls with promises
of God.

Tracking life with commandments of love, doing the best we can
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