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)
TRAPPED IN SEPIA
Portraits Brownie black and brown and white and gray
define
the distant slow and growing days before all digital and slick
You
Better Live These Days-Quick!Before They Disappear!
Photographs
solemn on gravestones.Families posed,frozen.
They
were used to horse and plow.Cannot leap into colorfilled now!
Theirs
a hand painted hand held-ours a moving image frame
Times
do not leak into each other.Kerouac hated hippies
Joplin,Morrison,Hendrix-all
dead @27.They never knew a Cd nor a DVD
When
we replay them,it is with deeper knowledge.Context changes.
Inside
their timed frame-they cannot see us ,nor ever know 2014.
And
we will forget them/as we will be forgotten.Folk will look back @us
and
ask-"if they had only known..."
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