Distilling the Essence

Once a little garden grew

And Cyanus ruled it tenderly

Till wintry winds' descent

Upon its inner wall

Blew away the cornflower

And blue the heart where

He fell down and where he lay

Beyond recall.

But now remembrance whispers go

To a little garden, worlds apart

Where, framed in gray,

That flower blooms again

Today.

I go.

___© Nellieanna H. Hay

How painful,

Yet pleasant

To outgrow each step

One finds to take.

Beautiful growth

Radially;

And inwardly

Grows free.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

The wind kicks tin cans

And paper cups

Along the street

And makes the giant tree

Into a feather fan-

The path of street lamps

Seems to bend

Before the wind

Of summer storm.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I leave my clues

Upon the pages,

Even silent ones.

And when I do not write,

Their absence

Is the clue.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

The wasted lapse of life

Between

The thought and action

Could be vanquished

With the plan.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Perhaps the fleur-de-lis

Begins to fade

As bougainvillea beckons.

Eternity is now.

I wait not

To fit myself,

Submit myself

To Life itself

This moment.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I feared

I'd lost the rhythm,

As if the heart

Forgets its beat.

Fear may cloud

And finally smother life.

But it

Cannot

Be lost.

Fear exposed,

Dissolves

And I am

On again.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I told you my soul

And you answered me,

"Tomato bugs."

I like it better than

Shakespeare

Out of context!

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Would you care to cauterize

My love for you?

To sever feelings so intense

That they cannot be subdued

To minimize the ocean of my love,

To fit into a corner of the heart?

Is that what you would

Wish to do?

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

The barometer

Inside

Becomes

At rest.

The path finally reaches

Its horizon,

Horizon evermore.

The seagulls soar

Above its point of vanishing,

To show that

It's become

Its fullest self

Where soul-to-soul

Communes.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

If I seem to clutch,

Please know

I would clutch not

But only touch

And feel the glow

Of love to know

Of love that is unforced.

I need that kind of love

To live,

To grow.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I shall not follow.

Here I am

And here I'll stay,

Whole -

Together or alone,

If sadly.

'Tis better that than

Shut out deliberately

Or shut in fragmentally.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I'd like an easy, breezy feeling,

If you please.

I want no heavy, hassley,

Creepy, crawly

On the knees

Feelings!

Life's too short

And life's too good

For wasting.

It's too much but too little

To miss a single tasting.

Stand up tall

And walk on by;

Just don't let this moment

Pass you by.

Have a little,

Have it all,

It's yours just for

The taking.

It's all there is,

How great it is,

And right now it's in

The making.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

If you be

Human hearted,

Then all you are

Is good.

The heart in tune

With self

Cannot betray itself.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay