RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Setting fires in intellect, watching them engulf imagination,
bringing burning desires to the foreground.

Enlivening many possibilities as they jump from the ashes like
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Solemn times of life don't always have to be filled
with sorrow, they can also be filled with tears of
joy, remembering can bring.
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Having views on mortality make no difference to it's existence.

We struggle with opinions and theories, never getting truth to
rear it's head.
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Leaves dropping relentlessly, finding new purposes
beneath the trees.

Like humans, dropping slowly by degrees, from life,
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Living is learning, searching for reasons,
mounting obstacles, falling on our faces.

Deciding, making choices, becoming an
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Flags, pennants, balloons, all waving blank pleas
to passers-by, no one interested, no one buying -
there's just no money to spend except on dire
necessities of life.
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Nostalgically thinking, partaking of yesterday's menu
of delectable images with family, feeling their closeness
beyond death even now.
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Lanterns guiding my mind down pathways of enlightenment,
taking me on voyages I've never been on before.

Lightening striking, touching areas of brain, heretofore
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Laughter filling the atmosphere,
left over from Christmas Day and
all it's festivities.
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Lights regaling interiorly, brightening imagination with
twinkling beautiful colors and white.

Bringing to the forefront, extraordinary brilliance and
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