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, October 25, 2011

GHOST POETS


Sounds of laughter coming from QUACKS,
FORRAYS,Cafe Solaire,Chicago House,METRO
The HIDEOUT,Spider House,Ruta Maya (4th/Lavaca)
Hyde Park Theater,Joe's Greek Cafe,Mexic-Arte Museum,Electric Lounge
Book People,Movements Gallery (on 6th Street),Victory Grill,
Vinny's Italian Cafe,Maui Wowie,ZOE's,
and every bubbling independent lover of the verbal arts-
Susan Bright,Dr Marvin Kimbrough,Floyd Freeman,
Albert Huffstickler,PASHA,Deb Akers-stars twinkling over Austin skies
beaming down upon us with twinkles in their eyes
knowing there will always be more in Poet's Heaven 
than can fit within our metaphysical memories.Stars above us,
reminding we are always at ground zero,only as brave as we dare
and their good example a call to the sleeping poet inside each of us
to be more than we thought we were capable of -through ghost venues,
ghost readings of ghost poems,unbreaking chains with bright truths
making freedoms with lines of sword concision,sharp visions to illumine dull times.
For they can no longer whisper their smiles to us shining every night
Your flaming tongues must start new fires.Your venues at your open mikes.

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