RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Running down the highway away from life and it's
devastating requirements, heading into a misty fog,
gray and bleak, disappearing without a trace into
clouds of remorse.
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Filtering through ancient dreams, alighting on the
frailest probability of reality, standing apart
from a world of incriminating people.
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Tearing away laughter, hiding behind faded dreams of
yesteryear, tightly folding in upon itself, allowing
no entry into caverns of darkness.
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Rampaging through memory's darkened clouds, looking
for light to follow and lead us through life-
immersing circumstances.
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Walking up dirt paths, breathing in dust of ages past,
bringing ourselves into surrounding origins belonging
to no one.
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Quietly straining to hear interior melodies playing
poetical words to write down.
Falling deeply into catacombs of enlightenment,
preferring wandering through their images to portray
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Thankful for thoughts floating past like fish under
water.

Submerged, deeply fulfilling inner needs, leading
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Taking on concentrated efforts to continue living
through hardships of all kinds, showing brave faces,
laughing outwardly, crying sadly inside all the while.
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Swirling and diving in squares of delight, happy with
antique morbidity.
Shuffling and beaming down corridors unopened in any
century.
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