Archive for July, 1981

The Moment

Posted in Uncategorized on July 26th, 1981

The Moment

Live in the hope-spangled moment!

Yet the fragile crystal moment

Too often shatters

Into thought-slivers

Of barren futures

Or painful pasts.

Live in the moment

But gingerly.

Prudy Sutherland

26 July 1981

Elaina

Posted in Uncategorized on July 19th, 1981

Elaina

Elaina, she dances, she dances, she

Dances across fragrant meadows

On a primal summer morning,

Her silk gown billowing;

Sweetly she hums a melon cool tune,

Whispering, swishing.

Elaina, she trods across sullen graveyards

At cold winter midnight,

Her sirge robe mimmicking

The shadows of the gravestones

On which her foot falls leaden;

She wails, she wails, she wails.

Prudy Sutherland

19 July 1981