Poetry list
the skittle
it stands scarred
and scratched by
its perpetual
execution by
barraged balls
bombarded and
bowled in
the bellicose
belligerence of a
game where ten
targets are doomed
to fall for fun
this one pin
is a theft by
pupil prank a
trophy of youth
but now a
veteran never
to stand and
topple again
on the alley run
inanimate and
anonymous evoking
lost time and
carefree joys it
is signed and marked
by story the
narrative soul of
being the hope
and heft that
topples our lives
into the caring
caress of the
creator who fashions
us anew not in
flesh but in the
invisibility of love
© Neil Thompson 2023