The new Michael Jackson album This It It, a 20-track, two-CD set accompanying the release of the movie of the same name, features one of his poems, "Planet Earth."
His poetry is a call to environmental awareness, according to James Bearden, the music supervisor of Jackson's This Is It tour, who told MTV about the singer's theme:
"[Jackson] wanted the world to know this may be it when it came to seeing him tour, and if we don't start paying attention to the world, it will be it for the Earth too."
He's one of the biggest music stars ever, but can MJ hack it as a poet?
Critical reaction to Jackson's prose has been mixed, but generally positive.
It has been called everything from "unsophisticated but poignant" (Globe and Mail) to "hokey at times, but there is a childlike quality that emerges after a few listens" (New York Post) to "vapid" (Toronto Star) and "consider yourself warned" (Time).
Follow the jump to read Michael Jackson's poetry in its entirety:
Planet Earth, my home, my place
A capricious anomaly in the sea of space
Planet Earth, are you just
Floating by, a cloud of dust
A minor globe, about to bust
A piece of metal bound to rust
A speck of matter in a mindless void
A lonely spaceship, a large asteroid
Cold as a rock without a hue
Held together with a bit of glue
Something tells me this isn't true
You are my sweetheart, soft and blue
Do you care, have you a part
In the deepest emotions of my own heart
Tender with breezes, caressing and whole
Alive with music, haunting my soul.
In my veins I've felt the mystery
Of corridors of time, books of history
Life songs of ages throbbing in my blood
Have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood
Your misty clouds, your electric storm
Were turbulent tempests in my own form
I've licked the salt, the bitter, the sweet
Of every encounter, of passion, of heat
Your riotous color, your fragrance, your taste
Have thrilled my senses beyond all haste
In your beauty I've known the how
Of timeless bliss, this moment of now.
Planet Earth, are you just
Floating by, a cloud of dust
A minor globe, about to bust
A piece of metal bound to rust
A speck of matter in a mindless void
A lonely spaceship, a large asteroid
Cold as a rock without a hue
Held together with a bit of glue
Something tells me this isn't true
You are my sweetheart, soft and blue
Do you care, have you a part
In the deepest emotions of my own heart
Tender with breezes, caressing and whole
Alive with music, haunting my soul.
Planet Earth, gentle and blue
With all my heart, I love you.
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15 Comments
November 3rd, 2009 11:09 AM
he was such a great artist
November 3rd, 2009 11:26 AM
Thanks wacko Jacko for letting me know that there is pollution on the planet. Unfortunately, he didn't read my poem entitled "Stay away from children".
November 3rd, 2009 11:49 AM
Next, his family will continue to try to cash in on MJ by auctioning off his poop stained underwear...and drool stained pillowcases....they are sick, greedy bastards!!
November 3rd, 2009 2:52 PM
LEDGE!! nuff said
rip!!
November 4th, 2009 11:11 AM
MJ, Your talent is unmatched. Your critics are jealous. Im so happy you are at peace. I LOVE YOU FOREVER!
November 7th, 2009 7:32 PM
He was an amazing man, who will be sadly missed
November 8th, 2009 12:16 AM
YO HELLION!!! You are a jackass! Leave him alone, he does not touch children. He is loveing he is amazing and he is a humanitraiun... Most of all he would never even think to talk to someone the way you have, you do not get him at all. That poem rocks, perhaps you are just consumed with jealousy Michael is full of love, go watch the movie.. He is WOW! You should be less judgemental and perhaps you should look at yoursel in the mirror and figure what you can do to be a little nicer. MEAN, just M-E-A-N!!! WOW~~~~
November 8th, 2009 12:16 AM
Hellio you are so pathetic for even commenting...... obviously this wasn't for you to read if u wanted to just write something like that! Fuck OFF!!!!!!!!!!! Leave MJ to rest!
November 8th, 2009 12:23 AM
STOP CALLING HIM WAHKO JACKKO TO!!! I hate that it really ticks me off! Do you think that he is not a human being, or do you just enjoy dehuminizing people? Would you want to be treated that way? Micaheal loves all children, but because his heart is so big, and because he is so childlike or did you not know that he was to busy entertaning people like us he did not have time to have a childhood. You can look in those eyes and see such a true genuine innscence. After all the mud being slung on him by people like you! He was good to everybody and he would give you the shirt off his back and you are gonna call him so nasty! WOW, you are not nice at all! GO LOOK IN THE MIRROR, you need help!
November 8th, 2009 12:24 AM
SEROUSLY, you are freakin rude to. DO YOU KNOW ANY OF THE JACKSONS AT ALL? Stop judging them.. Leave judgement up to God. I think you have that all wrong they all love Michael and I really think you are wrong so stop starting problems..