RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Laid back, relaxing totally in an atmosphere of
recalcitrant feelings.

Knowing that nature is just on the other side of
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Life and trees all natural, situated in the heart of a mind,
scanning the city streets, watching activities of individuals
on their way to work or home.
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Red suit, white beard, jolly beyond compare, touching the
lives of many children young and old alike, taking care
to be polite and a good example, using good manners.
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Whenever sounds of childhood penetrate outer borders
of a mind, life seems to stop endlessly in time and
space.
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Orange and yellow of disoriented skies, blending into
fictitious splendor of childhood.

Acres of knowing absolutely nothing, crawl around and
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Softly, echoes whisper through my mind, singling out
thoughts awaiting rhyming verse, sanctimoniously
arriving on quaking shores of irreverence.
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Parodies of ancient duos fixated within spheres of yesterday.
Calling forth mistakes covered in gold, shining examples of
evil in this world.
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Dampness of the years filling insides, molding,
mildewing, blackening inner being.

Emotions held in check, buried in steel boxes
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Reluctant, hesitant, standing back, straying farther from
the reaches of indecisive moments, afraid of the pain,
fulfilling destinies of thoughts about death and the ending
of it all.
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Rainclouds gathering in a mind, spreading themselves,
intertwining their souls with mine.

Hurtling storms, felt intensely inside, to all ends of
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