Sunday 12 August 2012

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling writes: "Thom the World poet, is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Toms poetry tapes and guest appearences with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!!

Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!"

En Passant

perhaps/always/like this/passing/temporary/transient
every moment/island/all we have/to be is all/temporary memory
by the time you lose time/it will have gone/like a cloud/storm/shower
image/metaphor/what was that?

DESERT ,PILGRIM
and you will leave-home,love,hearth
it is not that you will arrive(but you will arrive
in a space where you are comfortable/oasis/moisture bliss
where you can fully express your experience

FOR THE DEAD(can write no more than speak
and we are what we need.We may not be enough
but we are all we can touch.

FOR OUR LIVING is only this(transience
yet while we Heraclitus/someone plays @Atlas
another bright as bliss expounds experience

FOR THOSE IN TRANSIT
not yet sure to be alive.He shares with me-
They call me Tom Of Sadness.."I say-"You are joy!You would not be
here unless you realized/the joke of life is on us!(we are the punch line!

FOR THOSE UNSURE
You are right.No certainty exists
And i am quite positive
of this!

FOR THOSE QUITE CERTAIN
You may be right.
But if not
I would keep a different poem in each pocket!

THROUGH A WINDOW
plane/train/auto-distance,melancholia
it has nothing to do with the glass
just mediated experience

WHEN YOU SPEAK (eye listen
There may not be time to write this poem
Hence brevity .hence venues/where
you can dispute every singular word!

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