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


Saturday, May 28, 2011

"CELEBRATE YOUR LIFE!"

Woodstock 94-"The Bottle"-"Everybody needs something"
Paris"Is That Jazz?""Don't Give Up!"
Selective attention means we may never hear "Angel Dust"
of "The Spirits"-only his BIG HIT"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!"
I blame TV for this vacuousness/emptiness-GSH 's spirit was best encapsulated
in his mantra oft repeated @Woodstock 94-"CELEBRATE YOUR LIFE!"
In an age of LPs and singles,when urban black music poetry was rare
The Last Poets carved public attention long before rap
I was in New York when his 90s revival had him alive and well
lost a friend who went to his show rather than ours
Long ago,had heard his words from afar
and loved them more as a signal of truth and power
a jazz infusion of electric shock lyrics
to awaken all to connection.He is gone
Gill-Scott Heron 's poems live strong
Truth has a way of defeating time
via music,via rhyme...

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