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


Sunday, September 12, 2010

'knowing don't die"

Run back to the womb if ye will-until
regression is therapy,past lives stories,memories a buffet
Rush forward quickly-so that speed diminishes distances
acceleration overwhelms objections,and energy replaces thought
Stay in this Island Moment-with a Moat of Moments surrounding
as if stasis was not paralysis,and photography not motion pictures
Embrace all three at once-split the proceeds
so that perspective can compare and contrast
ways of seeing with waves of being
Doppler surf the possible until it is not
Surge the impossible until it stops
Invade others' theories until one relents
Seek a homeland in this Island earth
Space Colonies can wait.Moon as a man,cat,woman
but(as yet)we are simply visitors.
Sub-orbital exhausts jet carbon footprints
and we must move like Ryanair
until the terms and conditions are clear
we will explore undersea beds for mining
icecaps for fresh water/everywhere as frontier
until we exhaust ourselves and all resources
Now we must ask-did we know?
that development killed us
that civilization meant cities
that wars sustained us?that colonies R us?
Knowing don't die.But we do...

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