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?"
CHATURANGA...RECOURSE TO METAPHOR (&ALLEGORY)
Chaucer's The Book Of The Duchess"
Ovid's "Metamorphoses"
Lewis Carroll's "Through The Looking Glass"
Medieval Knight playing Chess against The Grim Reaper in Bergman's "The Seventh Seal"
How to deal with mortality/inevitability/Destiny..
Game Theory .String Theory.Chaos Theory.
Wittgenstein's trust in the Mathematics of Language.
George Bernard Shaw's Will to make English perfectly phonetic.
Bertrand Russell's PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA.Herman Hesse's MAGISTER LUDI.
THE ART OF WAR.THE GAME OF "GO"Brutalist architecture.Aristotle's Teleology.
Class War.Religion in Plague Times..Apocalyptic Literature.End Games.
Projected "Utopia"from Sir Thomas More to Laurel and Hardy to modern day "Dystopia"
Last gasp of a plastic filled fish ,bird,beached whale in "LEVIATHAN"
Chess remains,for Masters and Servants alike-a play of strategy and survival-
Like the poetry of Charles Simic.
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