RoseAnn V. Shawiak Poems

Fear latently hiding in storms of daily life, afraid to look
out and free itself, keeping close tabs on all activity, lest
it should escape or find a way out of it's cocoon.
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Later, finding out that there had been another accident while
they were trying to figure out what had happened here.

A roll-over, just a little way down the road, another pickup,
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Squashed beneath stares of other people, looked down upon
for what you wear or how you look.

Ignorant remarks caught plainly in your eyes and placed
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Silencing the wake of life with quiet breath, quickly scanning
the atmosphere for hopeful dreams, searching inner creative
heavens with peaceful joy.
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Stripes filled with the holes of universal musical notes,
stretching heavenward in search of a peace not yet known
on earth.
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Between the pages of many books, rampant ideas and thoughts
have been corralled and put in order to form collected works
of poetry or stories.
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Blossoms popping their beauty fragrantly into my eyes as I
pass by.

Tranquilly easing into the easy chair of life, unbending,
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Awkwardly rephrasing the melody of life, grasping fragmented
tunes, trying to make music once again.

Tattling memories being seen and placed in jars upon a closet
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Like an apple on a tree, waiting to be picked, selected,
knowing I will soon fall to my knees under the apple tree.

Wasted, unwanted, abandoned in this life as I lay on the
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Broken-hearted, still, saddened by this day of life, there
being no one to understand or guide me along the way, walking
unsurely in the path of darkness - no one will light the way.
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