RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Exaggerating emotional outbursts as I watch teenage
girls get boisterous when around the boys.

Seeming so funny now, but imagining I was the same
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Anywhere, finding time to write, living for
rhythms as they entice my being totally.

Always finding the light of energy unfolding
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Life is difficult, having large and small problems
while we live through it, nothing else can be done.

At times crippling people with disease or pain, some
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Wind whistling through the night, nothing to stop
it's eerie lonely sound.

Reminding me of a child happily walking through
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Centers of the universe fill my mind with questions,
wanting to know what they consist of.

Physically made from gases, rocks, shale, granite,
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Filling this mind with you only, wondering what you
are doing, if you're taking care of yourself like I
asked you to do.
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Picturing life like that of a hummingbird, watching as it's
wings are racing in the atmosphere, yet it can stand still
in the air, hovering.
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Sitting at a table, looking around at the past, talking with
my sister, and best friend.

Waiting, searching, hesitant conversation, not knowing what
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Tulips pulling at my mind, their colors fragrantly
aligned with nature.

Solitary figures, gathered in gardens of flowers,
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Rocks lying on their backs under water, looking up into the
sky, ducks sleeping lazily, floating like toy sailboats on
the water.
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