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Poems by Sheila Van Zant

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Poems

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11/20/2024485 Free verse
10/15/2022574 Rhyme
07/30/2022671 Free verse
05/27/2022455 Free verse
05/18/2022614 Free verse
04/19/2022573 Free verse
02/27/2022561 Free verse
02/27/2022347 Rhyme
11/03/2021556 Free verse
09/09/2021716 Rhyme
01/21/2021556 Free verse
08/29/2020588 Free verse
07/12/2020394 Free verse
07/12/2020720 Free verse
06/05/2020644 Free verse
05/10/2020575 I do not know?
04/23/2020552 Free verse
10/03/20191051 Rhyme
10/01/2019534 I do not know?
07/11/2019713 Free verse
07/11/2019494 Free verse
01/21/20191225 Free verse
09/29/2018482 Verse
08/08/2018748 Free verse
08/08/2018840 Free verse
08/08/20181024 I do not know?
01/27/20181003 Free verse
12/28/2017812 Free verse
12/28/20171091 Free verse
12/28/20171768 Free verse
12/28/20171298 I do not know?
12/01/2017630 Dramatic Monologue
11/27/2017553 Free verse
11/27/2017982 Free verse
11/27/2017568 Free verse
11/27/2017713 Free verse
11/27/2017988 Free verse
11/27/2017606 Free verse
11/27/2017924 Free verse
11/27/2017687 Free verse

Quotes

Quote Left My mind is a blank abyss - entwined in a paradox - an illusion waiting to define reality - a reality wanting to get lost in illusion Quote Right
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Quote Left Nothing is born mean, but human neglect and mistreatment can make them that way. Quote Right
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Quote Left Although it certainly distresses me to inflict anguish upon your consciousness, I deeply regret the painful necessity of telling you the rejoinder to the query which you just posed to me must be in the negative. Quote Right
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Quote Left Yesterday's fiction is today's reality and tomorrow's history to be dissected, picked apart, rationalized and set aside with no real resolution, answer or insight. Quote Right
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Quote Left When you lie you take away a persons freedom of choice, their right to choose to continue on the same path or to take a different path. You are forever limiting their choices. No matter what the truth may be I would rather know the truth than to make choices based on a lie. Quote Right
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Short Stories

TitleCategories
Throw the Baby Out with the water crime, inspirational, love, moral, young adult,
We punish truth yet reward lies crime, inspirational, moral, thriller, young adult,
Innocence Lost - Innocent Child Thrown Away crime, moral, young adult,

Biography

What is a Biography? Basically a cumulation of a person's perspective of their own past, accomplishments, thoughts, hopes, and dreams. 

Tired of all the takers always finding myself surrounded by losers. Wondering if there are any givers left in this fictional society we have built ourselves? Spending too much time reflecting on the limited sight of minds continuously immersed in dribble, gossip, humdrum activities, fanatical escapades, unnecessary violence, politics, reform, and ideology. Minds that fail to consider the foundation and that everything in their worlds is based on someone else's idea of what should, or should not be. Not realizing that society is a fantasy that has stagnated and is, in essence, a fantasy world. Not changing perspective to rise above the perceived but instead complaining about the mundane. Yesterday's fiction is today's reality and tomorrow's history to be dissected, picked apart, rationalized, and set aside with no real resolution, answer, or insight. Maybe I am a fixer in need of fixing, or maybe that's just your perception of me.

Can anyone relate, to pain once it begins? No way to escape fate, the broken record never ends. Accept now what is, not longing for should have beens’, What was, is not, what is, what a tragic end; There never was a what was, it's an imagined should have been.

Biographies will change based on current perceptions. All in all, life experience gives us all a better understanding of ourselves and this circus we call life. 

On another note - if you got this far.  I am the granddaughter of Frank Van Zant aka Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder a renowned sculptor (the first to use cement as a medium) whose sculpture that is still standing is a State of Nevada Historical Restoration Project in Imlay, Nevada http://www.thundermountainmonument.com as well as a descendant of Cynthia (Anna) Crossman poet (6th great grandmother) who was also the grandmother of Seba Smith aka Major Jack Downing the writer who Mark Twain fashioned his writings after.

I am the mother of two very talented children and six grandchildren.  Each one has a gift they have yet to tap into and the intelligence to do so when the time is right.  They are all very special in their own unique ways. May Jehovah watch over them as they walk the right path.

 


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