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)
GREAT WARS DO NOT MAKE GREAT ART ("I am a camera")
No poetry in the arc of falling bomb,nor ugly toy drone
nor
shell shocked patients recovering from concussion
Bright
minds encounter official violence-and are silenced
Kampuchea
to China,Iran to Iraq-poetry scraps white flags
There are
words-"holocaust"."casualties""attrition"
None
of them have bells of beauty ringing
Trot
out the corpses of Sassoon,Owen,Blunden
Not
one word will stop the next war coming.
SUPREME
SACRIFICE
"for
men who die like cattle"-white crosses
for
men who live in peace-white feathers
worship
of the wounded warrior-shell shock/PTSD
for
those who find their words-"the pity of it"
for
those made numb or dead-orations/folded flags
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