LENGTHENING SHADOWS

The Recorder ~ Sept. 25, 1970

Lengthening shadows

Indicate

The escape of

Yet another day.

The mournful bawl of a cow

Somewhere, somehow,

Impatiently punctuates

The stillness.

A dog barks nervously

At shadows, at some minor vague irritant

While the International DateLine

Separates one side of my room

From the other

With this dry, sticky gloom

While another reminder, -

A fragile breeze, -

Stirs leaves and trees

And me.

Distant woods sounds reverberate

With haunting

Hollow echos, -

Signaling this early Autumn dusk.

I've no regrets -

Except perhaps to see

That it's a frequent scene

And too often tests my trust.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Exploring the moon's surface

Is no more overwhelming

Than a timid step into

The bittersweet, agonizing

Desolation Of the heart,

Mining for freedom.

The moon may be

Less lonely ~

Even in its craters.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

1971

Life Fantasy

I am anywhere, everywhere.

I am here, I am there.

Life knows no bounds,

No time, no place.

There is no how,

There is no why.

There is no now.

There is no space.

There is only this~

Below, above,

To learn to be,

To give and live, ~ to love.-

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Nov. 1971

I struggle only

Against this fear,-

The struggle itself.

I struggle to escape it;

To escape the need to know

It all -

Right now.

Be still, my soul,

And you will know.

You will

Know.

_____© Nellieanna H. Hay

Fall, 1971

What is music

But the symbolization

Of one's yearning

For whole being,

A little closer

To the source;

A little further

From the symbol?

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Fall, 1971

Deep rhythms

Of the soul

Erupt to shake

My torpor.

I know that

Nothing can remain

The same.

All must move

With life's

Current.

Even this.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Fall, 1971