Poetry list
righting the writing
these familiar yet
ultimately strange
marks on a page
are filled with a
limited meaning
of form and pattern
discipline and
imagination focused
through humanity
and personality
material and
time the real
meaning and reality
itself we write in
a language of self
regard unless we can
or dare to turn inside
out and launch out
into the freedom of the
uncreate void from
whence the incarnate
love touches our
flesh and realms
to release us from
a present that always
is and never is for
all is passing and
we all write in water
and fade and finish
in this form let
us always let in the
light from the other
that anchors may drag
and our journeys begin
to where we belong
and everything belongs
and truly is
© Neil Thompson 2023