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!