RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Challenging interior feelings, causing a deepened
intensity that elastically covers up my mind.

Using intellect to keep sanity intact while dealing
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Quietly watching a friend across the miles, seeing
him live a life of loneliness and sorrow, always
striving to live his life alone.
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Settling into patterns of idleness, not wanting to
be bothered by anything, just wanting to be quiet.

Not watching nor noticing anything except the music
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Rattling inner cages of emotions, musical rhythms
taking precedence and evoking beautiful thoughts
of a life that can become in moments of time.
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Syncopating rhythms flowing gently and steadily into
intellect as I write.

Soothing, calming, energizing my mind with it's quiet
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Listening in an atmosphere of bluened light, being
soothed as I write from within it.

Knowing many things innately, learning more with
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Looking out a window at my doctor's office, being
downtown in Phoenix.

Skyscrapers, trees and cacti everywhere, morning
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Distinguishing life from death is a very fine line,
it depends on whether or not a person has a strong
mind and will.
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Out of reach, life standing before me, waiting for
it's end, yet my mind tells it, not yet, I still
have some things to do before letting go of you.
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Loving the world, everything and everyone in it,
finding much pleasure in the living of it while
writing and listening to music every day.
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