RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Securing a place in annals of literature through writing
of poetry, spilling my essence upon the world.

Watching the effects it has on people who read me, thinking
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Passivity in throes of life, throwing people off, not
knowing what to think about the situation they're in.

Thinking, straightening out lines of ideas and placing
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Enticing melodies, bringing my mind back to yesterday when
I had the simplicity of meaning hidden deeply within.

Forging into the night, blinded by darkness of an eerie
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Traipsing along river beds, watching water ripple and rush
by, knowing that life is doing the exact same thing.

Filled with elaborate and delicious meanings, being followed
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Grasping ideas growing and being nurtured by intellect
daily, forceps pulling out qualities of enticing pur-
poses by their roots.
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Racing up and down a piano keyboard in imagination,
soaring into rhythms of melodies, sanctioning their
blessings this side of heaven.
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Surreptitiously sneaking in backgrounds
of life, not wanting to be noticed.

Continuing to write poetry created in
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Dying within, screaming silently, no one hearing
these plaintive cries for help.

Subjected to sorrow and sadness in this fading life
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Throwing caution to the wind, letting it fill the sails
of a continuing journey into depths of nothingness.

Onward through steps of tomorrow into eternity further
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Purposes of life having been gone through daily,
tempting passion of an interior feeling into
climbing higher into desires of a lifetime.
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