Talisman

The talisman I wear

Is naked love for life,

Awe-inspired

Familiar,

Blended into

A haven here of

Super-earth

Indestructible,

Inescapable,

Constant,

Ever expanding,

Never demanding

Love of life,

Is this talisman

I wear.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

SECRET

Oh! Needing not

To plunder my piano,

Nor rape, not ravish

Any thing, -

I caress the keys

And their music

Comes forth

Which I

Create not,

But merely share

What’s there.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

MAGIC

Do you believe in rainbows?

I do!

It's not fantasy

Nor logic,

Nor science

Nor art,

Nor chance

Convincing me.

All things simply come together

In natural perception

And crystallize in natural belief.

There is no discipline nor magic

Which reassures me.

There is simply

Life itself

Renewing.

Posing as life-studies,

Dead specimens teach nothing of life

Nor can pompous rituals

Ensure it everlastingly.

It is known only

As it is experienced

In the moment it exists

In the living,

The Eternal Now.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

♥The polka-dot elf

I keep on the shelf

Is Cupid's second cousin

By marriage.

Elves aren't much for

Laces and flowers

For love letters like ours

And being oneself.

But if you forget

To kiss me each day

Or love me the way

That you should,

He'll tickle your ribs

And blow in your ear,

And muss up your hair!

So watch it, my dear

And be good!

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

It seems the Earth is waiting.

Return is simpler than supposed.

The complexity is in the leaving.

The circle turns before she knows.

_____© Nellieanna H. Hay

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