Poetry list
passion
fire and wind
engulf us all
raw and elemental
flaming and gusting
inside us and
among us un
controllable yet
manipulated exploited
and engineered accelerated
fermented and
set loose beguiling
intoxicating deadly
the world glows
with passion its
faces and hearts
lashed by the whip
like squalls while
order and ego claim
the progress of the
pendulum quarterly
strike and imprint
of civilisation it pops
like a bubble it
bubbles the shiny
veneer it careens
into a chaos of
savagery where our
glory is shot through
by victims’ agony
the unspeakably
forgotten and it
spirals into a
vortex of past
and future in the
one whose week we
call holy and the
nailed nihilism bleeds us all
whose last breath
is our only one
© Neil Thompson 2025