Latest works, 2026 ~ Rough Places Plain, Poetry list
artifice and intelligence
the smell of roasting coffee
childhood dejavus
fleeting phrase of music
glimpse of hill or sea
our spirit is touched
enlivened ablaze
intense and explosive
wistful and transported
a tapestry of living
intimating the hidden
numinous precious
the threshold of an
otherness lost and
found at the same time
artifice and intelligence
are not bedfellows and
have no time for feelings
let’s not trample on one
another and ourselves
by unleashing the blind
partiality of inhumanity
the unstoppable
cleverness of false gods
in a world of cheats
why are integrity and
care so disposable
beware the box whose
lid cannot be closed
© Neil Thompson 2026