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, November 25, 2011

in the beginning,you are given

a sack of flesh and senses
as a toolkit to explore with
trespass upon all other worlds with
worlds of wonder and of witness
With these tools you make mistakes
human errors /every day/another scratch pad for fleas
These are the counted clocks of pulse and beat
that limit eternity to burial plots/ashes
of fires once seen/are now pilgrimage
where younger feet trespass/in trust
for induced wisdom and wonder
if the passage is worth it.No Fatima,Lourdes-
more bars and Hasek,coffee shops and dog eared paperbacks
We gain our learning from each other-those departed
leave us artifacts but no truths/other wise they would still be here
among the penitents and petitioners,pilgrims and potted poets
whose provisional portents are ignored like weather reports
when you can open the window and see the new sky
for yourselves.

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