Spike

[woodelf]

Anyone know a website that has a copy of Spike Milligan's poem about Aberfan?...I'm not sure of the title. Ta Muchly.

[chelle7272]

Is it this one:
The Children of Aberfan

And now they will go wandering
Away from coal black earth,
The clean white children,
holy as the Easter rose,
Away from the empty sludge-filled desks,
Away from the imprisoned spring
that opened its mouth
To breathe air
and moved a black mountain to find it.


So,
Away they shall go - the children,
wandering - wondering
more loved
more wanted
than ever.
I don't burn coal any more.

http://www.writersnews.co.uk/writers_talkback/ comments.php?DiscussionID=67507

[woodelf]

Brilliant Chelle, that's the one. Thanks very much.