Jewelled Apple

Sweetest fruit

Whose succulent nectars

Linger on the tongue

To awaken a stirring hunger, ~

Tempting, tantalizing

The ancient spell.

Remember?

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Remember when

We met in a life before?

We were in a meadow

By sparkling stream,

Between dream

And dawn.

I recall it all

Like yesterday,

Though dream and stream

And dawn ~ are gone.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Not everyone

Leaves empty space

When he goes away.

But when you return

The earth again is lit,

Is full

Of warmth

And grace.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I like my audience

Of one.

I write for me

- And you -

Who

Are

The One.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Splendid rapture

Of the heart and soul

When whole once more!

You came!

The heart I beat before

On half-time

Becomes full-measured.

It falls in step with these,

Between your quarter notes

To fill the gaps between

Our lost eternities.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Lavished on the wind,

We live

In ephemeral splendor,

Surrendered to our fates,

Mostly self-contained

In wispy isolation.

And if

We chance to touch,

It shatters us!

Yet sometimes,

Some times -

Touching happens

Perfectly,

So we

become,

Together,

A single membrane

Strong against the wind

Forever.

_____© Nellieanna H. Hay

This love

Opens up

Secret places

In my soul

I never knew for sure

Existed!

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

My love loves me

And lets me be

The self I am

And continue

To become.

By this boundless,

Bondless generosity,

I'm bound more closely still,

Till he becomes my true home

Where love is boundless,

Bondlessly free ~

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Illustrations used here are adapted from various issues of my vintage collection of Neiman-Marcus 'The Book' catalogs. Other graphics used were created by me with PhotoShop Elements 9 and are not permitted for any other use.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay 2012