Midnight Sun and Rainbows

Sunlight

Casts

Its shadows

Longest

Coming in

Or going out.

When one hemisphere is lit

The other is in darkness.

Sunlight is delicious

But shadows sweeten, too.

____ © Nellieanna H. Hay

Basking in reflected light,

Singed by proximity,

'Tis still a minor burn.

Past time and space,

Search up and down

Which way to go or run,

Yet still, it flounders,

Moving forward back into

Obscurity of shadows,

And still, it wanders.

Unknown to intellect,

To heart, direction comes;

Floats in on random notes,

Spotlighted by the sun.

Rainbow appeals

To all there ever can be.

Sunshine reveals

No vessel, lost

Beyond discovery,

In this midnight sunlit realm

Of possibility.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Inside my sleepy eyelids

Reflects a double rainbow.

From whence it comes

I know not,

Nor does it matter

To the sun.

For now it has begun

To sprinkle tender raindrops

To soothe the thirsty earth.

My rainbows come

On fleeting moment's

Interlude.

Should they intrude

On peaceful slumber?

So stealthy their advance

Among my fantasies.

I wonder if they're real;

I marvel at their worth.

〰©Nellieanna H. Hay

If a rainbow

Touched this gray existence,

If this voice became a symphony;

If everything were

As it should be,

It would be

As you are to me.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

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