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)
MY PROBLEM WITH PASTS
is-there is so much of it!Lives,experiences,memories,
complex
and compound into one big lump of archival material
with
only a little window life to see it all.O Palestine!
did
you know that a girl wrote an essay on that Newtown massacre
and
was suspended indefinitely from school?O Malala!
they
shoot teachers,aid workers,women ,children-
all
in the name of religion!So i have been boxing up my poetry pasts
storing
them in a shed to forget/just so this winter chill
might
not be warmed by book burning or witch hunts.
I
release all pasts!If you find these lines among your own-claim
them!
You
incite me to write-witness for the defense of humans-free speech
advocate
Meet
me @some open mike-request a song i have never done before
That
way we can both release any tendency to repeat.repeat.repeat
A senior at a San Francisco charter high school has been suspended indefinitely and faces possible expulsion for writing a poem, which school officials deemed disturbingly dark, about the December school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
According to SF Weekly, officials at Life Learning Academy were particularly rattled by these lines: “I understand the killings in Connecticut. I know why he pulled the trigger. Why are we oppressed by a dysfunctional community of haters and blamers?”
Courtni Webb authored the alarming verse less than two weeks after a lone gunman killed 20 young children and six teachers at the Sandy Hook School.
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