RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Waves tumbling like desert
tumbleweeds rolling across the desert.
Watching an essence of it's dry beauty
as it came forward and brought an extra
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Strong and soft-spoken,
settling gently into a garden
filled with blue roses from heaven.
Keeping time with every pulse,
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Sitting, trying to collect myself,
because I've been broken into millions
of pieces and cannot see to put myself
together again.
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Rocking into the next century,
full flavors of rhythm taking
steps into aisles of musical
ability.
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Withdrawing into depths of inattentive focus,
planning to give in to it's passive flavors.
Tomorrow, falling into meaningless cisterns
of disaster.
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Jumping for joy, skipping down rows of gardens, happy as a lark in spring.
Everything crowding my mind with their beauty and tender essences of fragrant desire.
Thoughtful rendezvous, becoming a new episode in a difficult life.
Thumbing melodies absently on the piano, thinking in notes, seeing their pictures being arranged by intellect.
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Rehearsing the past in ageless memories,
watching childhood images of myself depicted
in them.
Happy, pleasant thoughts being brought forth
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Soundly walking down lonely lanes, emptied of feelings, hiding all emotions beneath the earth for now.
Peaceful endeavors, falling along the wayside, never looking back to see what was lost.
No more anticipation standing in the way of other-worldly dimensions.
Sequestering the light of tomorrow in a space all my own.
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Standing back, realizing the voices of the future have gone beyond me.
Following the sounds left from their lonely echoes in caverns of my mind.
Adjusting, not to well, to things that have been changing in ever increasing numbers.
Letting go of every emotion, wallowing in self-pity, all by myself, no one else can linger alongside me.
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Equally apportioned throughout the rest of life.
Taking turns with each and every moment of artistic grace, placing innate talent where it will do the most good in the future.
Knowing there is nothing better than releasing all emotions and their
feelings into the universe where they will do you no harm.
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