THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, 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 Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and 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 within 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?"

DO NOTHING (and everything is done)

YOU DO NOT NEED TO TILL THE SOIL

You do not need fertilizers/phosphates

You can collect seeds and plant them

to reverse desertification.All this is natural,

and does not stress the soil for factory productivity.

Seeds planted,watered,nurtured make harvests

in their own season,in their own time.

Think small.Think relationships.Soil.Water.Seed.Sun

This is the way it has always been-now the future has begun

in much the same way as the Ancient Ones

flowed with the nature of the seasons and the soil

You do not need chemicals.

Every seed is a New world.

Masanobu Fukuoka

Masanobu Fukuoka (Japanese: 福岡 正信, Hepburn: Fukuoka Masanobu, 2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, no-herbicide grain cultivation farming methods traditional to many indigenous cul