Poetry list
winter solstice
the night is blessed
as the day we have
invaded its darkness
with ingenuity and
artifice a new world
of opportunity and
gain yet we are the
po orer and the blinder
our seeing exists in
the dark and our
prayer burgeons and
blossoms in the
divine night our
footsteps may stumble
our senses reel and
panic our fingers fumble
as the familiar is
jagged hostile uncertain
illegible yet our need is
all the answer as clear
as day bright as any sun
they exist together and
always confounding
our patterns and
footmarks the maps
of a meaning we
invent to make
everything mine
embrace the liberty
of the longest night
take the darkness
to the heart
and see live an
otherness whose
light shines as
absolute black in
a bleakness and
glory we cannot
comprehend
© Neil Thompson 2024