Poetry list
why metaphors
they earth and open
excite and apprehend
the feelings and
thoughts reconnecting
the subterranean
vaults of being if
there are thoughts
at all perhaps
urbane fantasies
a rock bed as
insubstantial as
mist that gently
refocuses every
vista in that
softness of self
retreat it could
so it should and
must what sun
should burn away
my dreams and
face me with light
perpetual I need
the shadows and the
doubt to stand firm
in my concepts and
conceits in my take
on being without
end pour me a glass
of metaphors to drug
me in the euphoria
of delusion give me
pleasure not delight
me not you me
not us feed me with
the confections the
menu and meal of
metaphor
© Neil Thompson 2023