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?"

SIZE MATTERS

When we were Arabic-saw the  stars as doorways

Greek-saw the stars as ceilings,able to be plucked like apples

Moon owned by poets(and Wallace and Gromit-and aliens)

Only when we sent a dog into space did we realize

how strange and dark and unfriendly deep space was

Gustav Holst and GONG and HAWKWIND soundtracks

Deep Space Whisper with Gilli Smyth-sing a long!

We sent Gold Records past the sun to contact aliens

They have different formats in divergent galaxies and constellations

Then came NASA (pre-SPACE-X ,pre-SPACE FORCE)

With ideas plundered from STAR TREK and (sadly)STAR WARS

Now we go beyond HUBBLE into the WEBB

We have become tinier the further our telescopes go

We learn more but know less about totalities,so

I go back to star gazing at night,looking for meteors,asteroids,flashes of light

to illuminate our moving diorama skies-in our collective space flight..