RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Dedicated minds reserved for talented people,
innately attuned to wisdom's side streets,
beguiling grey matter with novel dimensions.
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Rehearsing guide lines set from birth by paternal
orders of obedience.

Preferring to wander when growing into teen years,
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Somewhere in outer space, notes are flying to and fro,
bringing together blends of music.

Shouting to the heavens, allowing spaces to be filled
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Silencing moods of
yesterday's trials begins
with understanding of why
they happened so they may
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People speak of paradise, yet I haven't ever seen it here on earth.
Only when I've died have I seen heaven's gardens for myself.
Blue roses growing effervescently in abundance everywhere I looked.
An intense bluened silence holding me spell-bound as I took it all in.
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Marching thoughts straddling intellect,
riding them like horses on the trail,
taking along so many ideas and views of
literature in nature to this particular
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Twigs poking my memories, bringing them to the forefront so I may see the beautiful willow trees of home when I was just a child.
Their long slender fingers grazing the lawn, hiding me behind them, because I didn't want to be found at times by anyone.
Turning towards the trunk, touching it's bark and lifting myself into the branches of it's arms, wanting to be held by mother nature.
Always feeling safe and secure in their hold, not ever wanting to climb back down.
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Rushing to meet a rhythm beating inside me, wanting to continue to feel it's thunder inside my chest.
At ease in it's presence, enjoying the grasp it has on my heart, soul and mind.
Never minding that it takes me away to heights and depths of life and reality.
Solo thoughts africanized in jungles of my imagination, not wanting to be tamed by rules of english grammar.
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Topless palm trees,
standing naked in the Arizona afternoon sun,
not being seen by anyone besides this poet.
Placing it's presence now in a poem to be
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Switching positions,
adjusting linear situations to see
what will appear in kaleidoscopes of sound.
Each design's color emits a tone of perfect
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