RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Regulating passion and thrill of senses, accessing and
placing them in words, expressing each in accounts of
total memory and reciprocating endeavors throughout
life.
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Waking up and entering a desert, the moment I walk out
the front door, loving expressions lying before me.

Cacti, palm trees, blue skies and peaceful serenity,
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Scathing and burning inside past memories that are more
like nightmares through time.

Death and loss scraping against my heart, lessening it's
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Memories like ghosts haunting and teasing emotions
and feelings.

Eliciting tears and heartfelt loneliness, cradling
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Sadness seems to penetrate everything in life, even
happiness.

Because when the elation is gone from our minds, a
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Rivers are ever-flowing, watching water constantly
moving slow or fast, taking thoughts with it towards
the ocean.
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Mysterious and intriguing music from the Godfather
taking me back to childhood, living with my mafia
family.
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Recovering still from all the surgeries of two
years ago, needing more, but living and loving
strong through poetry.
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Rising above turmoil in life, forgetting about it's
strife, not opening the door to any of it at all.

Listening to happy uplifting rhythms and melodies,
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Desert landscape lying just outside the window,
sunning itself in bright rays of an Arizona sun.

Tantalizing pictures settling in my mind, enticing
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