RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Ideas and notions of the Statue of Liberty from a
crowded boat.

Arranged marriages, the Black Hand, smuggling, -
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Remembering eating grapes under the vines, then walking
over to the cherry tree around the corner.

Eating the cherries and spitting the pits as far as we
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When life is precious, nature wraps us in a protective
cocoon until we may present ourselves when mature.

Taking years or decades for some of us, others expand
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Taking various courses and paths through life's journey,
we express our minds and lay our fortunes before us on
any given day.
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Lonely, bereft, aimlessly walking, looking about, finding
no companion of old to be with.

Painstakingly realizing that I am alone, curling up in a
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Backyards beckoning my mind, titillating imagination,
making it jump and hope for something more this day
in life.
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Outlasting exhausting propensities of yesterday,
quietly anticipating moments breaking and swelling
in unison.
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Slowly scraping a stick across memory's pathways,
unable to alter or change a thing kept stored
inside.
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Moving disappearingly across spans of listless time,
bereaved for many moments of the future.

Likely aspects, rudimentary facets walking - tracing -
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Outside spaces crammed with beings, disappearingly hiding
quietly, so they cannot see what is appearing before them.

Causing the allocation of every missing piece and fractured
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