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


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

MATHILDE GARVIA's CENTENNIAL(February 26,2011)

She would have been 100.We who loved her
and were loved by her met at Gilka's home-
a circle of friendship with a pot luck table
Stand we together with toasts in hand,praising
her loving acceptance,wisdom,Light and example
She related sans authority-7 languages later
in her homeland Bolivia she staged a Poetry Festival
in Aymara(indigenous language despised by the Spanish)
became a film star in black and white colors
lived in Italy,learned English by herself,came to Austin
already famed as "declamadore"-to perform @AIPF,
poesia y calle,poesia y sur,Expressions and open mikes.
She would kiss you full on the lips at 96-had memorized
Neruda,Borges,Mistral-all those truly Southern poets
whose speech was flaming tongues/with her-smooth rivers..
We spoke of her because she is still with us-example
of poetry as universal,language as necessity,love as all-
then the piano roared to life-percussion ,guitars,songs
arose as though her spirit had touched us(as it has-
100 cycles round the sun-we have yet to reach the end of...

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