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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