Romp With Hound Will

 

Like a quicksilver flicker

He's as the current

in calm and in torrent.

From start through to end

changes in form, not in essence.

A quick plip-plopping,

A shadow on a hill,

A movement in the aspen;

silver flickering leaves in a breeze,

form always changing, never in essence.

A beautiful thing now recalled,

upon the happenings of the world.

A remembrance of something,

closest to people and nearest to nature,

a thought of life, love, and belief,

a realization; always present yet waning,

a call from life,

it's life that's calling,

here, in its entirety,

never meaning more to me.

                                                 

John Audun Nelson

                                               

John Audun Nelson has a B.A. with a Major in Psychology from the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.  He is currently working toward a Master's degree in Microbiology.  The poem ``reflects  a tender ten-year experience, which remains fresh in my mind.  I believe that this memory which I have put in poetic form will provide a rewarding read.''