RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Fidgeting with today's tears and happiness,
trying to decide what to live with.
Amazingly, my mind just gets into a groove
and continues to carry on no matter what
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Featuring specialized stanzas of life's heartened energy,
beckoning ever-lasting memories to outlive themselves on
cloudy days.
Planting insignias on foreign abstractions, watching
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Singing soulfully, tears hiding just inside
corners of your mind, awaiting times of
enrichment from interior solitude.
Suggestions filling aspects of pious memories,
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Solitary peacefulness settles within, bringing with
it temporary solutions to life's difficulties.
Standing alone, perusing every day thoughts in total
recall of a mind's reclusiveness.
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Children dancing so happily,
not a care in the world as
they step in time to music.
Loving, sharing their smiles
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Wonderingly amazed at life's turmoil through the years,
as we are born and age so nonchalantly without a thought.
Astonished at every birthday that we have grown a year
older, while at the same time, declaring we aren't going
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Honestly reflecting days of youth, before a lie was
told outright.
Past ages sprout from truth, bringing out young men
who follow pathways of righteous knowledge.
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Patterns of living create themselves with invisible
threads, producing a fabric of ingenuity and beauty
as we each follow our free will down lanes of our
own doing.
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Crosswords of musical talent bring about a lifetime
of beauty and concentration, allowing our minds to
stretch and bend out of shape.
Ideas converge and mill about, awaiting an existence
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