Cognitive Abilities Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Slow motion thoughts wiggle and dive, swimming
pleasantly through ideas and images, putting them
together like puzzles and solutions of mazes.

Cognitive abilities stretch and ease themselves
so fittingly into poems of intrinsic value,
soothing even the broken hearts of wisdom's mind
with an interior solitude and presence of mind.

Taking latitude's steps into the beyond, filing
up stairways to see novel sights being invented
at this very moment.

Lovingly taking in every breathless fragrance
with rapturous delight, silencing deep feelings
of remembrance with faith and it's contemplative
hope.

Holding prayers under candlelight, carefully
sending them to heaven with wind-swept smoke and
joyful tears, hoping to touch hearts and souls
of yesterday's family.