RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Dedicated minds reserved for talented people,
innately attuned to wisdom's side streets,
beguiling grey matter with novel dimensions.
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Rehearsing guide lines set from birth by paternal
orders of obedience.

Preferring to wander when growing into teen years,
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Somewhere in outer space, notes are flying to and fro,
bringing together blends of music.

Shouting to the heavens, allowing spaces to be filled
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Silencing moods of
yesterday's trials begins
with understanding of why
they happened so they may
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10: 18 a.m.
Memories awakening, sometimes sprouting new ideas and
concepts with dream-like rhythms.
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Reality staring into space, wondering why humans don't
like to face it throughout life, continually turning
from it, preferring lies and fantasy to it's truth and
honesty.
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In the night, studying nature, rose petals falling
into the darkness, being blindly stepped upon as
people stroll by on pathways.
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Dancing into an evening sunset, shadows deepening, life
coming to a standstill as activity becomes tired and is
put away quietly and carefully into cupboards of nothing-
ness.
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Blankets covering evening with quiet solace and beginnings
of contemplation, a fullness, an essence, opening up it's
blossoms to fresh scents of nighttime air.
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Timid and shy, avoiding crowds and parties full of those
wanting to talk and drink with each other.

Preferring only the solace of lonely abandonment where
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