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

FOLLOW YOUR MUSE(1950-2012)


BEATFEST November 3-5 2011 will have pilgrims who come
to celebrate a culture they recognize as their own-
the right to free expression  for every one
has a Muse,and each must listen to her demands
If she says"get in a car and drive to Bryan!"-they will
If she demands they share their visions,hallucinations and epiphanies-YES!
If open mikes spill out with imaginative exercises,collaborations and improvisations
she will have done her job well-for all of us have stories to tell
and time is required,and space,and listening ears -
this is why we find ourselves here-in a desert,in Texas,in a drought
when ideas are in short supply,and dreams have mutated to nightmares
Muse calls us all to supply this demand-for fresh and original lines 
that do more than describe our times-they CHANGE our minds
and lead us to start our own open mikes and open Festivals
so each and all and every tall story and short story might 
become a pearl poem of truth and power might be shared
among all visionaries ,poetic pilgrims and unbeaten BEATkeepers of desire..
 

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