Poetry list
dark arts (an epiphany)
the bended knee the star–
led journey the dumb
founding destination
after the palace arrival
these treasures are power
not naked but gift wrapped
melchior’s gold is not money
per se but the essence of
purchase the indomitable
choice of possession
glittering with its charisma
of riches cash down have
what you want unlike caspar’s
petition of prayer to gods
who can seemingly deliver
if appeased and satisfied by
the curling smoke to heaven
of burning gums and resins
the frankincense of piety
pity pitted against fate and
fatality unlike balthazar who
offers the spices of anointed
death the body immured and
enmyrrhed to ward off for a
while the inevitable decay
what will a child and young man
do with these his humility
overpowers all dominations
and more defusing the fears
the phantasies the glamour of
earthly futility utility ability
in a new dispensation of
unmerited gift and graciousness
the goodness that comes from
afar but lives in the now for ever
© Neil Thompson 2024