THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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)

HOPE IS A BABY

PRONE TO DISAPPOINTMENT

awake/awakening.The preparation-so much

is out of our hands.Cut/curve of sliced grass.

Glass half full of emptinest.Pigeon's egg.Dumping Humpty

walls talk distances divided.To make slow,be slower.Grasshopper leaps

drink grumbling gridlock.Around towers of antique powers,we forget

whose emotions bought these chess pieces/to represent Persian War Games.

In bedrooms and head shops,village plots openness.Gossip fuels foolishness.

Guilt via knowledge .These are OTHER.We,The People,continue on/volunteering.

Stores of Anger and Umbrage,Chutzpah,Hubris and Exceptionalism/Manifest Destiny

denies equality/makes accidental asylum anarchists of Tea Party puppets/pressure group politics

Knee jerk game playing provocateur saboteurs shutting down and getting paid not to resolve self-created crises

Traffic slides around EMERGENCY Regulations.Equal and opposite forces.Physics of applied thuggery

"Ask not what you can do to your country."And,on the Third Day,crumble and contempt/collapse only occurs

when we talk to the puppets not the hands inside their programmed pogrom..