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 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.