{"id":580,"date":"2009-05-06T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T19:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2009-08-12T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T23:19:01","slug":"phat-mandees-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Phat Mandee’s Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey everybody, it was incredible getting to meet so man different facets of Tom’s friends, I mean, would have been better under other circumstances, you know, but if it had to be done, I guess we did him proud, I was honored to be included. If there really is an after life, I don’t know how he could have missed us celebrating and loving him. <\/em><\/p>\n

I wrote a poem the morning after:<\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/p>\n

A Memorial, A Celebration, A Remembrance of a Life Well Lived….
\na poem for Tom Kennedy by Phat Man Dee<\/p>\n

“Wailing and heartache were all that were left
\nas I cried with the big brass band.<\/p>\n

Sorrow and loss and confusion and pain,
\nMade tuneful with syncopation heart stain.<\/p>\n

The sun went out when the sea took his life,
\nI could never feel good again.<\/p>\n

Ripper the Shark drowned , not forgot,
\n1000 replicas would not replace him.<\/p>\n

There were songs and altars and photographs too,
\nProof you had been here, proof we loved you.<\/p>\n

But nothing could have prepared me for the sound,
\nOf a marching brass band, wailing for the man who had drowned.<\/p>\n

Their song was simple, it echoed the pain,
\nOf a life we lost as we cried in the rain.<\/p>\n

Drums pounding, horns screaming, the fire flames high,
\nPrimal silence and screaming, I could only cry.<\/p>\n

A Little Bell whispered into my soul,
\n“If we loved him” she said, “He will never grow old.”<\/p>\n

His soul is timeless and his message is true,
\nLost not forgot, we are still part of his crew.<\/p>\n

She said the reason he lived has not changed with his death,
\nWe must all try to furthur his holy quest.<\/p>\n

To live without warning, and sing songs with our friends,
\nThe love is still there, it can never end.<\/p>\n

He drove fast in the fantasia he made with his hands,
\nHe adapted to sea forms to ride on dry land.<\/p>\n

He made missiles to fire the harsh words of peace,
\nto warlords and monsters he demanded relief!<\/p>\n

We love him and miss him, we must endeavour to be,
\nthe people Tom Kennedy would want us to be. “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everybody, it was incredible getting to meet so man different facets of Tom’s friends, I mean, would have been better under other circumstances, you know, but if it had to be done, I guess we did him proud, I was honored to be included. If there really is an after life, I don’t know… Read More »Phat Mandee’s Poem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts-sent-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomkennedyart.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}