Poetry list
taking the plunge
the moment on the
rock by the pool at
the vertiginous top of
a slide or board the
water waits opaque or
translucent lurking
beckoning coldly flat
or sparkling hesitation
and impulse decide
whether we discard
control and enter a
hinterland of between
and before when it
comes there is no
return a different
power will hold us
and we are out of
our depth so is
the faith and the
hope of love this is
no institution or
configuration belonging
is dying plunging
being held when and
where no one and
nothing can here is
believing and the
power of the presence
always outside our
vocabulary outside
everything and so
deep it penetrates
personhood and self
at its utter utter
core such is love
© Neil Thompson 2023