Poetry list
two hemispheres
they’re not equal
they’re my brain
and yours unique
and different left
and right revealing
and processing
informing and
ordering creating
questing adventuring
I can see neither half
but both let me see
yet not in the same
way different worlds
shifting perspectives
converging diverging
homing in panning
out storing facts and
dreaming dreams
forming new languages
discovering new worlds
taking to myself
expending and
risking all
but do we choose
no rather in our
differences we, know
and know not see
and cannot dare
we let another teach
and show the
incomprehensible
unknowable
or shall we plough
my field my way
which is already dust
without spirit
returning fast to
pre–existent darkness
the chaos has a
pattern and the present
a future hidden in
synthesis and
philharmony
released beyond thought
and embedded deep within
the brain is wired to let
us know our limits
only the formless
stirring of the spirit
takes us out of
mind and into
empty fulness
© Neil Thompson 2023