The Festival That I Celebrate

The festival

That I celebrate

Is being close to you.

My special holiday

Is simply in your arms.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Gather me close

To your heart

Where it is

Warm

and

Safe.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I guess I needed you

The way horizon

Needs the sky

That fateful day

I walked into

Your world

And knew

The way inside

As though

I'd been there

A thousand times

Before.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

    You should know ~

You fill my heart

With gladness

And brighten up my day,

    You golden grown-up boy.

You lift my soul's last sadness

As your light along this way

Makes shadows play

A game with light

And hum a tune of joy.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Most delightful

Things

 ~ And all vital

        Things ~

Are sexy.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I know

You think of me

With thoughts not mental.

The distance is

A breath in space,

Less dense

Than mountain air.

And with the slightest stirring,

I am almost there,

Once again

Surrounded by

The magnitude of

You!

If I should love you,

I would love you well.

If I could comfort you

And let you be yourself,

I'd marvel at

Your specialness,

Morning, night and noon,

Delighting in

Delighting you

With me.

    ______© Nellieanna H. Hay

The heartwood of the tree is he

The fullest, highest crest of sea ~

And when he's near

My summertime

Repeats itself once more

And hums my evening song

To me.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

If you have felt yourself, -

With awareness of the wonder that is you, -

More fully than before,

It is because

I am a stowaway

Inside.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Knowing how

You know me,

Knowing how

That I know you,

Being all together,

    Together -- 

This is all I ask

And all I need

    To know.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I experience you

As abundance,

Wonderland.

Where everything

That can be touched, 

Responds.

Please let it be,

Unfolding - 

Free.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

Warm-

Lusty-

Alive-

Your vital juices

At the peak.

All man,

All hu-man,

You are.

And we are

Good 

Together.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay

I kiss

    Your brow,

           Your lips,

                  Your eyelids,

                         Your rugged fingertips.

                   I kiss you in my mind

             A thousand ways,

     Expressing my desire

Echoing from a love

Much more profound

   Than I had known

           Could be.

______© Nellieanna H. Hay