Blue Planet
Edinburgh Revisited
English - September 05, 2019 10:00 - 57 seconds - 777 KBBooks Arts Performing Arts edinburgh; fringe edinburgh castle edinburgh festival poetry ledingham edinburgh revisited Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Blue Planet
We went to the National Museum
To wait in a winding queue
To see a piece of moon rock,
It was grey and disappointing,
And unimpressed, I spent
The rest of my time wandering,
Lost under the Blue Whale,
Trying to take in its scale,
This traveller of the globe,
Reduced to a skeleton,
Swimming above my head,
One of 10 million objects,
But only the top
Of the pyramid on show,
The rest stored carefully
Under dustsheets,
Embodying our world,
Yet when I think back
To the astronaut,
And his small step for man,
Picking up that piece of rock,
He could block out the
Whole of the blue earth,
With only the top
Of his
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