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


Friday, October 21, 2011

"every one of you is a poet!"(Elzy Cogswell Huston-Tillotson Poetry on the Patio Oct12


How could you know after saying that-
and reading a poem inspired by that saying
that the Registrar would be inspired to write for the very first time?
After you did your Cinderella ,she stepped up to the mike
with a short piece written on the spot
on the theme of NO REGRETS!
She examined the proposition based upon regrets
how wasted they were in terms of energies
how hope inspires trust inspires love
and how life,being limited,needs to be fully lived
How could you know,dear Elzy
that you birthed another poet in your absence-
one who loved poetry but up to now had merely memorized her faves
and recited them to praise poets of the past?
How she asked all frowns to be inverted to smiles
and stepped away from that microphone
a new person-fresh and bright and shining
and will herself be soon asking others 
to embrace their own creations...

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