Tuesday, 9 July 2013

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 appearances 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)

FUNGI THE MOON THE PUPIL OF A HUMAN EYE

are round,roughly circular-something in our referent world of vision
that reassures.We are both part and apart.Stones on the beach Cot Valley Cornwall are all egg shaped and huge.
Sea creatures and stars are spirals like nebulae and galaxies whirling huge above us,and within
there are no straight lines,just bendings.Hence bent trees for Aboriginal /indigenous shelter
Gypsy wagons with bent roofs.Medicine wheel with Four Directions within.
Stars and seashells spiral chambers of our hearts.Mimesis=raths and round houses.
Tara,Uisneach,Illaunloughan,Boscawen-Ur in Cornwall=responses to a curved world.
Even straight lines curve over huge distances.Parallel lines meet @infinity.
We are on a rolling rock in dark space surrounded by dark matter
All our points of light are elliptical,spherical,irregular.We (still!)follow stars!
Riverbeds from plane height are wormlike,not straight.Imposed geometry=squares/rectangles/skylines
Bring back attunement to spirals and circles.Listen to the seashell oceans!

No comments:

Post a Comment

...BECAUSE SOME OF US THINK THAT THIS STUFF IS IMPORTANT
What happens when you mix what is - arguably - the world's most interesting record company, with an anarchist manic-depressive rock music historian polymath, and a method of dissemination which means that a daily rock-music magazine can be almost instantaneous?

Most of this blog is related in some way to the music, books and films produced by Gonzo Multimedia, but the editor has a grasshopper mind and so also writes about all sorts of cultural issues which interest him, and which he hopes will interest you as well.