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?"

BECAUSE I BEGAN

as an enchanter/declaimer

improvisor to musicians

This is the demotic,whatever medium is used..

I have 45 boxes of illegible written poetry

in notebooks slowly turning into page fog

More boxes of cassettes of improvisations

with and without music-all one-offs

Cds of course and an e- book of Peace Poetry

Typewritten (Remington,acoustic)then IBM Selectric Golfball)poems abound

Some are stapled together into original primitive collections

(Me and the stapler go WAY back together-

but my life's failure has been to capture the fish of the air

She always escapes ,like all those forgotten dreams

So many diaries,memoirs all coal black fires burning

OF COURSE i try to give it all away

OF COURSE i try to learn from the elements

Every word is borrowed,stolen,purloined from Muses

You,and every person i have ever met-real,virtual,dream,hallucination

Temporary as time,with scratch marks in the Buddhist yantra sand.

I accept everything,love selectively and miss creating

when the world sees no point in poetic posturing,giving me more incentive

to "fail more,fail often,then fail again"(Samuel Beckett)

THANKS FOR CARING,O CREATIVE MUSES!