RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Settling within this heart's life beat, stirring
memories of past inclinations, allowing them
room for thought.
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Clinking and clanking, entering moments of musical
rhyme, awakening me subconsciously, stressing
feelings of turbulent past times in hurried tones.
Cha chaing around, finding new ideas to think and
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Drifting into deepest waters, floating carelessly
upon waves of remorseless fatigue.

Up to shoulders in a fast moving ocean current,
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Soldierly sauntering down lanes of beating polka music,
lifting my spirits high into the atmosphere, calming
nerves.
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Rhythmic rhymes begin dancing to inner tunes of
words, so closely tied to feelings and moments
in past times.
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Elvira, a name from the past, conjures up an image
dressed in black, hosting a scary movie program in
the evening for all to enjoy.
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In the known of life, all truths stand out on edges
of questions we think about often.

Forgetting our frustrations and doubts, we waltz
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Penetrating barriers of existence, symbols partake
of our minds, taking us on journeys into mountains
and forests along our pathways, remembering endeavors
long ago hidden away in closets of our minds.
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Staring out over a sea of skyscrapers, hoping to see
glimpses of our beautiful desert wasteland.
From this particular direction, other than grey and
brown buildings, all I can see is the sky above.
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Awakening memories deeply embedded in sleep, stretching,
yawning, emitting brief and simple pictorial images into
a mind.
Watching as they fade and wan, suddenly coming into view
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