Friday 3 June 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?"

FELICITY OF FOLK RHYME
As in ballads,narrative and lyrical patterning
Right up to today's Kendrick Lamar
Right back to Chaucer and Shakespeare
For what was limericks and light verse
Returns  via  Gilbert and Sullivan and  HAMILTON
Young   taste is for rap,jazz and trip-hop,
where words and sounds conjoin in   meaning
to argue   and petition in new dreaming.
Comic verse  has  used  rhyme  for wit
Folk versions of old limericks/song lyrics
Armories of  harmonies translate Rilke/Brecht
through  English's mercantile predicaments
French romance,Italian decadence,Germanic cadence
in an Esperanto  of  translations.Arthur Waley failed  me.
Robert  Bly  offered Rumi  (though  he   could not speak Farsi)
Dylan Thomas  failed Welsh .Pagan rhymes informed Yeats.
Our worlds  enriched via International  Anthems
each based   upon  some  past  precedent(which is Folk
in all her bastard slant rhymes,near rhymes,mock rhymes
from  HALLMARK to McGonagall to VOGON(worst  poetry   in   the Universe)
Cultural   appropriation   subsumes all  literary traditions
Only folk allows all  forms of   rhyming    manifestations

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