RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Hesitant voices mildly carrying through a karaoke
atmosphere.

Finding voices buried in music, peeking out at a
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Drumming along without a care in mind,
tangling thoughts along the way.

Matching beats to melodies, counting
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Patterns falling and lifting into special etudes,
being recognized from daily stances in life.
Becoming the essence of intense passions as they
ooze from petals fallen from many bouquets of
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Instilled sorrow sits upon my
shoulders.
Watching saddened events through
the years, as life falls down
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Classrooms filled with ageless knowledge, brought about by teachers
who have taught.
Filling pages with written words, reading from books of age old
wisdom.
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Gathering thoughts like leaves on a sidewalk.
Letting them lie there to bring up their own images,
travel their own word-filled journeys.
Running to infinity, sidewalks travel into new horizons
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Pages, turning pages, filtering through sorrow of a lifetime,
so sure of death, all wishing spent with this desire.

Truthfully, never hoping or praying for another day on earth,
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Water cascading off of water fountain falls, soothes
and refreshes my soul with laughter, gentle and calming.
Days and years, filled with stress and hardship, melting
away in a placid space of poetry.
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