Poetry list
gathered
living on the watery
wind swept shore and
looking to the bluff
above a solitary ancient
tower higher than the
brooding keep and
heavenward spire
behind there lies a
later jewelled casket
that calls and gathers
us to meet and share
the One among us
who has promised so
to be our bread and
joy our hope and
purpose enduring far
and longer than any
measurement of mind
but nestling close in
heart and kiss and then
in the breath that closes
every life leading us to
a home for which we yearn
yet know only in depth
and tear warm embrace
and breaking laughter all
this lies written and lived
through centuries of
hope and faith looking
up and reaching out
receiving the gift we didn’t
know of till our spirits’
eyes were opened by
forgetting self and living the
truths that turn us inside
out so never alone by river
or in grief the gathering
god retrieves our solitary
loss and makes again but
not in dust but in the manifold
meeting maze of mansions many
© Neil Thompson 2023