A piece of music which swirls around the poem by Colin Bell.
Colin Bell was born in a Franciscan convent in Surrey but grew up in Sussex, UK – almost everything he’s done, he did for the first time in Brighton.
More information can be found on his blog: colinbell1.blogspot.com/2013/11/colin-bell-biography-colin-bell-was.html
Colin Bell has written many poems based on the Fibonacci series – expands and contracts following the numbers of the series; for example: 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 13 8 5 3 2 1 1 .
lyrics
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Music of the Spheres
Flat
Earth,
old home,
marble domed
and painted with stars,
easier for simple mortals
than this slowly spinning ball suspended in chaos.
Pythagoras heard heavenly harmony humming in space – the planets’ mystic song.
Divine choreography ruled humanity’s fate
while we worshipped blindly below,
humble and fearful,
ignorant, trusting -
less
brave.
Colin Bell September 2013
credits
from Music of The Spheres,
released November 1, 2017
Music: Tim Risher
Voice: Colin Bell
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