Poetry list
imagination
it is being stunned
by wonder nothing
to do with you save
you have been gifted
this miracle of
otherness here is
no commodity or
process no inevitability
not even justice it
happens it strikes
unfairly arbitrarily
with no notion of
worth or status it is
a freedom and the
very threshold of
salvation and for
most it costs so
much it isn’t
recognised till the
life is gone
dead
it’s also a short
circuit to conformity
status quo convergent
thinking it is other
outrageous breaking
the rules showing us
something new to the
point of shocking
and even scandal it
is out of control whilst
placed delicately and
nuanced in learning
wisdom humility enquiry
daring sacrifice risk
commerce and industry
power influence and
success
think they can buy it
and bottle it it is
never here and
always there – just
beyond our reach –
and utterly beyond
price
© Neil Thompson 2023