RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Suspended in an interior peace, filling my soul with
an ecstatic serenity, keeping me totally in synch with
rhythms of this heart.
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Going through avenues of incessant thoughts, alighting on
certain ones, allowing poems to be written in measures of
time.
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Meeting on trails of yesterday's forests, watching
children at play, and joining in the laughter of
Mother Nature.
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Buried beneath many lies, a certain distrustfulness manifests
itself.

Knowing that what a person is speaking face to face, is not
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Stepping out into the world, testing it's surroundings,
looking to find some strength in it, not knowing that
strength can only be found within.
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Rushing to meet deadlines of other people's desires, leaving
your own by the wayside, even when they are more important.

An insidious reality of those who feel they are above us in
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Reality strikes and takes away people's individuality at
times, leaving them in the middle of a vast expanse of time.

Taking away everything that exists in imagination just to
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Stretching imagination into measures of rhythms, expanding
knowledge and learning through an individual thought process.

Living in the beauty of creativity, accentuating life with
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Awakened fully at the very first sound of musical
compositions, believing in positive aspects
contained in every note as it increases passion
and desires of this mind.
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Darkness spreads across my mind, blacking out everything,
allowing an interior life to be seen and infiltrated in
intellectual endeavors.
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