Rob Ayling writes: 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?"
VOLTAIRE 2015
LIKE SOCRATES,IF HE WERE ALIVE
he would be put to death.Think of
Wikileaks.
Think of journalists assassinated.Think of
truth tellers
reading books of poetry while Trump
trumpets.
Books not guns.Food not bombs.Hungry world
cannot eat fear.
It turns to anger in their guts.Forget
scapegoats.Forget sacrifice.
Forget ancient quarrels(eye for an eye for
an eye)
Start again.Seeking
friends.Associations.Freedoms(of speech,assembly,movement)
If we are human,we will find common
cause.Peace.sanity.Care.Compassion.Healing over horrors.
Core truths ("We find these truths to be
self-evident")unite us
Reach for your Browning-your
philosophers,your poets.
Free Chelsea Manning.Welcome Edward
Snowden.
We wish to walk these streets as parks and
gardens,not armed camps.
Welcome ,refugees.Let us connect to our
Veterans on these streets.
Homes for every body.Human speech.Human
communities..
shared a link.
Voltaire, the clearest of
Enlightenment thinkers wrote those words in his 1765 essay, 'Questions sur les
miracles.' And they resonate as much now, 250 years…
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