RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Falling into line behind the rush of energy coming from
intellect, absorbing it's every particle and fiber into
being.
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Times of life on earth are many, adding up, culminating
in moments of our daily lives on earth.

Touching experiences and circumstances throughout, find-
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Marching to silent beats, kept sacredly in the interior
of my being.

Responding totally to their insistence to keep step and
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On the edge of life, taking time to write incessantly
of all thoughts and memories that have been accumulated
through daily living.
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Securing a place in annals of literature through writing
of poetry, spilling my essence upon the world.

Watching the effects it has on people who read me, thinking
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Passivity in throes of life, throwing people off, not
knowing what to think about the situation they're in.

Thinking, straightening out lines of ideas and placing
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Enticing melodies, bringing my mind back to yesterday when
I had the simplicity of meaning hidden deeply within.

Forging into the night, blinded by darkness of an eerie
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Traipsing along river beds, watching water ripple and rush
by, knowing that life is doing the exact same thing.

Filled with elaborate and delicious meanings, being followed
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Grasping ideas growing and being nurtured by intellect
daily, forceps pulling out qualities of enticing pur-
poses by their roots.
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Racing up and down a piano keyboard in imagination,
soaring into rhythms of melodies, sanctioning their
blessings this side of heaven.
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