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?"
CASCADES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
READ JAMES JOYCE ALOUD(in an Irish
brogue
It unfolds like origami flowers in
mellifluous verbal magic patterns
like waves breaking on the rocks of a
coastline page
bringing shipwrecks of ancestral emotions to
the surface
READ VIRGINIA WOOLF ALOUD(in an English
accent
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE/MRS DALLOWAY sparkle like
Gertrude Stein
in a music of language wet as waves rolling
in /like rocks in pockets of rivers
Underneath each surface is a tongue of
water,rolling like fish escaping linguistic hooks
READ DYLAN THOMAS ALOUD(in a Welsh
whisper
And an orchestra of villagers and gossiping
fences flap sheets in the wind
Each syllable a plum ,an apple and an orange
orchard,plucked ,perfect and piquant
READ WILLIAM FAULKNER ALOUD(in an American
(Southern)accent
Riches reveal themselves like sculptures
under sand
Uncover secrets when you articulate in the
language of this land
SPEAK INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ALOUD(find the
music
and their central way of conveying images for
the hunt
where water is,and what lies waiting for
every unwary one
We have lost more languages when their human
tongue has gone.
Extinction means silence.Wind carries
whispers.No body sings.
Sexiest thing I've read in
ages
James Joyce, Julio Cortazar, Marcel
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