Poetry list
a terrible beauty
dreaded
yet I was
willing it
the end of
the struggle
the pain
death’s agony
and what I
never wanted it
was extraordinary
in its power
and beauty
a completing
an overcoming
a finishing
achieved with
a radiant
glory reflecting
the ninth
hour’s culmination
of triumph
nothing remains
save that of
glory indelibly
written into
a perpetually
breaking heart
and a hope
built on a
substance without
form memories
which are not
residue but
radiance that
overwhelms and
overpowers all
time with
its terrible
beauty
© Neil Thompson 2023