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John Thomas Beat Poet of Venice Beach

2/6/2016

 
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I decided today looking for a journal entry with today's date is too hard and has been stopping me from posting to this page. The journals are stacked in year order, at the moment, on a bookshelf in my green house study. I just grabbed one this morning and I'm so glad. 2001-2002 I was fondly reminded of a wonderful couple that I knew, John & Philomene, they also lived in the Ellis Building (15 Paloma Ave.) in Venice. I met them in the elevator and studied with John Thomas for a bit before he was too ill to continue. I found this entry in my journal from 2002. The poem was written in memoriam, he died March 29 (Good Friday) 2002. You can find out more about him online. 

John Thomas

​will I ever know again
the wonder
staggering in unsteady confidence
and kindness gushing
sweet reserved questions
so deep they hung unanswered

depth and dedication - sweetness and light
to wander among words, ideas, concepts
to feel the passion and see
with crystal clarity
a countryside never visited

commanding and gentle knowledge
John Thomas appeared to me
the supreme listener
listening in silence to things said
and those left unsaid
interpreting - not judging
sensing struggle and pain
treading lightly
wandering among land mines
with no mind

tell me what it felt like, sister
to be loved
to experience that "love eternal"
so lucky and unfortunate
the paradox of being
to know and not know
all at once 
the physicists be damned
so it is daily 

Thanks to John Thomas for an awakening, for a breath of sweet magnolias in Spring.

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