Wednesday 26 January 2022

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?"

"PERFECT CIRCLES"
Mythology to philosophy to observational witness
Naked eye of Ptolemy to primitive lenses of Copernicus and Galileo
Until the combination of Tycho Brahe mathematics to geometry
destroyed the mythology of "perfect circles'-rather-ellipses
explaining the orbits of Mars(even without understanding gravity)
For centuries,through religion,observers believed
all planets revolved around our Earth.It took the data of Kepler
based upon Tycho Brahe,to restore our sun to centrality
and to displace a circle with ellipses to explain planetary orbits.
From Hubble to Webb,we can now explore our solar system and other galaxies
further back in time..to find our origins in Theories either supplemented
or destroyed-by supplemental data.NASA=Maths and Telescopes!

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