may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Monday, March 8, 2010

"WE HAVE ALL BEEN HERE BEFORE!"

Remember ,friend,when times were bare
and you felt alone out there
painting houses as a meditation?
Your music stored in the basement of your parents home
you toured /loved/tried not to be alone
Tides came in /went out again..
This is all cyclic/and will happen again
This is when you really need your friends
to reassure that more will enter when it will-
dreams do not stop(like music)-lots
of people feel that Trough of Despond
Connect!The Bridge Between Islands spans
between friends and every living being,and
we do not know when the tides will rise again!
Trust to the fact that you are elder
Youth is a flower,old age a hardy perennial
Weeds have a right to be ,and we
will be round for the next harvesting.
SING when you can,smile at the joke
(the punch line is always on us-and most
are lost before we share rememberings..
There is more to this story than endless beginnings
We are in the middle of a span that bridges years
Time to pack away loss and fears ,regain that life joy
that empowers us out of aloneness-back in chorus
to be with and within-to listen and to sing
like every chanting chirruping bird at a new dawning

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