Best Thom Poems

soak up the side streets of Montmartre, 
Paris, 	Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy
class less 	art combusts	then drips 

- street beggars & tourists cant

writer Rubbish pastes   lace traceries
ala mode 	decoupaging decay 	
his cut-paper layers	grace	   anoint		
no longer anonymous		walls

stencilist C215’s “simply a cat”
defies sourpusses...

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"The Drowning Machine"



Pulled from my mouth
a string of raw gold to build a tower
built from one understanding
a united ziggurat of words sucked
backwards played before broken mirrors
translated anti-clockwise slow speed all that babel
an alter laid down dry to feast on wet before Shinar 
A ripe blood...

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"Fits the Need" 


All people want 
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home

to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free

live life 
how "we" 
were meant to feel

to have no hell 
continually raising chaos
in this very very small life we lead

yet we crumble 
like the...

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Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8







"Breath, in Blue"



Bluebottles broken scattered
shattered legions on the beach of my heart
my blue planet lungs rattle
my breath battered in the honeycomb maze
vanished all my bees belittled forgotten 
there breaks the earthquake in my brain -

ruptured motion emotes...

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"Next Poem, Erased on a Sharp Black Line"



The more I try to erase you
The more you present sharp and present
Oligarchy claps on, 
Teeth sharp and tongues bite venomous in numbers

There you are walking
barefoot and blindfolded 
on a Sharp Black Line
Daring to dive in

Here I await...

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METICULOUS 

Thom Love Pruett – his effect on absolutely
      everyone around him –
Impeccably dressed
Moderately slight in stature and weight
With features suggesting a certain hauteur    and
With promise of shrill snippiness should he 
     ...

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"Symposium"



where do you go 
when you try to 
dream your place

in my life 

gone now 
from your 
quicksand shores

once I rolled over 
placed my mouth 
against your throat

what used to be

as if you 
could transfer
some voice back into me 

I was so naive
missing the signs
in...

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If it were only me, I will be doing anyhow
Nobody would have been there to challenge me now

Now I look back into the face of the future,
What I see, golden grains, people of peasant pictures;

Red roses rooted in the soils of 29th August,
Some still sailing...

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"In You"  

What more to be said
or thought, when 
poetry flows like water

a never ending tap
of dreams and thoughts
spilling from a full heart

overflowing 

onto blank pages
pouring into the mind 
of you

the writing stops
eventually
but the stories 

continue 

in
and through
you

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
gvlm


“Open the Floodgates”/ Thom Yorke
https://youtu.be/yyq-YwrUJhw











LYRICS/...

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Somewhere between the Poseidon and Azure
Is his double shaded blue that always allures;
Between the lush and chrome, green hues
That glow in layers of velvet like necklace;
With rufous brown tail feathers and long neck
With strong twig like legs which are too thick
And with the slender body...

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"The Broken Valkyrie"



when 
the artificial 
sun 
replaced 
true Light,
revolution 
was a forgotten 
Valkyrie, 
Liberty 
had been 
put to bed
broken whore 
of Babylon
no longer holding
the torch for anyone;

women and men 
grew to love 
their servitude,
complacency 
skewered their fever,
it, like a contagion spread
a worldly blanket over all,
viral...

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"The Watcher"



You said, “Never me...”
I said, “Saltwater stings, when cuts slashed deep are bled”.

Somewhere sharks are circling
Swimming black eyes numb
Do sharks have souls?
The crowd cried, “None”.

You said, “Honey, life’s so sweet”.
I said, “Do you think?”

Somewhere, honesty lives in a place,
It’s called, “Not So Neat”.

Through the...

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“The Gideon Edge”



We walk the thin line
Alone, but in the 
crowd of humanity

We are walking 
towards
The Edge

Feeling our way 
in the dark 
fingers tracing our pasts

on walls that sound
like braille 
rattling, perishable, frail

Instincts in the 
back of our brain
bit by electric bit, 

We all shed...

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"Diamond Light"



Downy soft 
Love Light sharply glistens diamond prisms
from rainbow's seven colours, in each colour a meaning
imparts a visitation message from fallen angel off a gosling’s wing

A mother whispers secret stories
A child cries silently and remembers everything

In unread chapters
LOVE, is a strong army that loyally...

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Serve yourself cat, the grouchy butler said.
Thom was angry now, wishing the old guy was dead.
I have to make my own sandwich? Cut my own bread?
Only if you feel like you’d like to get fed....

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