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, October 3, 2010

realism vs fantasy

you point to history and its scattered failures-
one tiny Renaissance and massive barbarisms
you litany battlefields,greed and power
i point to poets and their singing dreams
as if a cloud defines the skies
or a bird could carry us on wings
You point to gravity (forget the bee-
whose ponderous weight outweighs his tiny wings
i vote for every salmon rising waterfalls
resist the cliche WILD! CAUGHT!
Somewhere,lighter than air,inventors dream alternatives-
(yet are we human and need batteries replaced-
Electric cars not as exciting as electric people
and possibilities that are more than theories
haunt us in our dreams.We are more than pasts-
(though past foundations architectures yet to come
We are open futures(though predictable/habitual
and in this present moment,find our dreaming
stronger than the decline of Western Civilization
As Ghandi said"Western Civilization?Now-THAT'S a good idea!"

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