Poetry list
the alabaster vase
thirty seven years
of marriage and
this was my last
gift its creamy
smoothness cold
stone and translucent
delicacy betokened
the love and passion
of our selves and
now it lay open
waiting to be
filled with oil
and light for the
journey and the
entrusting the
taking and the
letting go into
the night of
dazzling day
and blinding
luminescent sight
a departure and a
homecoming a
separation and a
union beyond flesh
but anchored still
in the waiting
and the silent
beautiful stone
the jar that opens
onto eternity
© Neil Thompson 2023