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Thomas, Jack of Hearts

About Me

Thomas, Jack of Hearts is a one fella from australia. He used to be known as the political poet, citizen tom. He now writes for love. He has made a cd, reinterpreting the poetry of the great Sufi master, Rumi, into a series of australia-scented rhymes over hip hop beats and traditional Persian instrumentation.

RISE UP! visuals by cogulator

THE SHAPE OF MY TONGUE - visuals by Verb

POEM FOR MUM, performed it at her 60th birthday party. Visuals by Uncle John.

WE R NOT AFRAID. Visuals by Camera Phone

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/06/2007
Band Members: there was a moreton bay fig i met once...
Influences: Rumi, Hafiz, trees
Sounds Like: god, playing a scared boy, on crappy computer speakers made of lungs.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

two boys in a rocket - F.I.H Aug 7

we gots a development grant from the councils in Aulbury, the settlement stands, we were never 'that' naughty, a rebellion of hams on the stage where they aughtta be. look, just get this elephant pa...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:22:00 GMT

Jura Books night this friday 13th

In the heart of winter u got to get that darkness into ya, got to peel it right off the clouds on the perimeter, and mix it in with the carrots and the beets and the lentils and the ghee and the steam...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:58:00 GMT

on grandad's passing

21 million less oneThey don't make 'em like that anymore, the bricks and mortar, the struts and the floorboards of a family, things sure sorta look candidly different in reverse... somehow easier, som...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:18:00 GMT

tOKEN wORD, Jun 20

www.myspace.com/tokenword   I'm bailed up in a bayonet tower, watching shower after shower slide in skittles down the window. The wind! the wind it blows and there's a frozen shiver in me timbers...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:34:00 GMT