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


Thursday, May 26, 2011

STORM BOY

To bring change is to bring pain-
birth,argument,divergence,divorce
The split of atoms burns a fiery furnace
and it is no consolation to praise survivors
Pre-us,(and after)there will be storms
They are headlines now and often
They devastate towns and flood cities
They FEMA rescue few from detritus/debris
Who counsels the storm?Bringer of woe
messages of destruction-even when you build in a flood zone
or camp upon shifting tectonic plates/blame is a way
of forgetting cycles and history.Nothing is willed
that has not happened before.Wars and woe are not Nature.
Storms and floods repeat like answers to prayers
There were storm gods before us-Wodin,Thor
Wreaking devastation happens randomly
wake to a stranger in your bed in a house of enemies
House flips out in a hurricane-wilde winds tear @foundations
Yet every wound is original to the victim
Every death the final,one,only ..

No comments:

Post a Comment