Poem
Adrian Mitchell
SONG IN SPACE
SONG IN SPACE
SONG IN SPACE
When man first flew beyond the skyHe looked back into the world\'s blue eye.
Man said: What makes your eye so blue?
Earth said: The tears in the ocean do.
Why are the seas so full of tears?
Because I\'ve wept so many thousand years.
Why do you weep as you dance through space?
Because I am the mother of the human race.
From: Greatest Hits
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., Newcastle
Audio recording: Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, 1983.
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., Newcastle
Adrian Mitchell
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1932 - 2008)
“Joyous, acrid and demotic tumbling lyricist Pied Piper determinedly singing us away from catastrophe.” (Angela Carter)
Dubbed the Shadow Poet Laureate in 2003 by Red Pepper magazine, Adrian Mitchell has been one of the most exciting popular voices in British poetry for almost half a century. He passed away just days before Christmas 2008, marking the end of an incredibly prolific, and political...
Dubbed the Shadow Poet Laureate in 2003 by Red Pepper magazine, Adrian Mitchell has been one of the most exciting popular voices in British poetry for almost half a century. He passed away just days before Christmas 2008, marking the end of an incredibly prolific, and political...
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SONG IN SPACE
When man first flew beyond the skyHe looked back into the world\'s blue eye.
Man said: What makes your eye so blue?
Earth said: The tears in the ocean do.
Why are the seas so full of tears?
Because I\'ve wept so many thousand years.
Why do you weep as you dance through space?
Because I am the mother of the human race.
From: Greatest Hits
Audio recording: Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, 1983.
SONG IN SPACE
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