RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Throughout nighttimes of living, happiness dances with
calm reserve, praying for life-changing alternatives
while balancing on a pin point of final remembrance.
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Careening through skyways of imagination,
a pilot of words and meanings, fitting
them all from abstractions into intelligent
poems so literature can become them in fate's
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Steps are taken throughout our lives to be educated,
to learn the physics of life.
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Somersaulting in my mind, light, careful,
peaceful, away from life.

Alone, it is so wonderful to be in a mind of
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Skidding and sliding
into a mental picture.

Trying it on for size,
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Lethargically moving in time with a slow-paced rhythm,
helping me to lay back and relax.

All doubts and insincerity left behind in a bog where
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Pastels turning about the floor, attaching themselves
to people's clothes as they jitterbug and tango.

As bright colors search for just the right person to
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Withering beneath a blanket of aging thoughts,
crying silently with yesterday's memories,
attempting to continue going on alone.
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Stomping around this world in boots, well-worn.
Always attempting to find a place to settle down,
writing life messages into poems everyone can
view.
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Leaves of change altering our minds, delving into
reveries of silence, finding spirit-filled essences
building themselves inside us.
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