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 Tom's 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!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)
A CHINESE BEFORE
solitary fisherman with net and lance
pre-fishing
fleet mass dragnets
a
lake with stillness and with depth
pre-fracking
for deep natural gas
a
silence before book or word
pre-machines
and rush,road and noise
Morning
meditation.Night star dreaming.
Those
are airplane lights,blinking!
YOU
SEE(pre-us-
fewer,distance.Times
between.Slower.
In
our times/there is no time.Now not fast enough!
TO
LIVE IN OUR DAYS
you
must let TV talk.Loudly.Continuously.
and
radio.Blare.Talkback.Blowback.Soundtrack
Music
carpets space and time's metered jukeboxes.
To
escape,within this-find silences.
you
see-even Chinese no longer /lakes&rivers dammed
hydro-electrically
connected/huge projects dwarf us
ask
Wei-Wei what one artist can do?To live between the noises
Be
silent?or live larger?-to fill all empty spaces.Unframed.
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