Poetry list
the turning year
what we notice and
what we fail to see are
so irregular yet from our
views and habits the
golden leaves and sparkling
pearls of dew are wonders
and signs of constant
change a gift beyond price
and telling nothing is
certain as turning time
changes us and all what
constancy and faith can
brave these seas and
storms as each sail on
and on there is more
than survival there is the
making and risking of
meaning and meaning is
the meeting of time with
eternity is this change or
death or both all change
is death all change is life
it turns and turns and
leaves us never the same
dead and changed no fruit
lasts for fruit is formed to
rot and die changed from
lustre to decay when life
sleeps in putrid dissolution
to be remade reborn returned
by turning year by turning
time the passing year takes
us all never to be what was
or will be yet never now and
always now the turning year
turns all into the confusion
and clarity of ticking tyranny
when next can still be liberty
© Neil Thompson 2023