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Chris Pitts

songwriter, poet, activist, and advocate for the elderly

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Chris Pitts

songwriter, poet, activist, and advocate for the elderly

Death

Epitaph for a Lost Friend

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I heard a newborn baby cry, I watched an old campaigner die, I asked myself why, why, why, I can’t get an answer,When the last man has laid down his gun, When my last serenade has come,When the last game has run, Into His glory day I want ancient wings, I want ancient strings, why? Because nobody wants to die Leave youth …

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The Forty Foot Friendship

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Crashing into the stench of gas, mud blood and human limbs everywhere, Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, strange Hells mingled with church bells, ‘Boy Tom’ and Archie forty foot between them, and forty foot away from an agony that blows human forms away with roll a dice luck. Shadows on a negative black and white horizon …

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Gentle as a clear summer evening

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When I go people will say things. Don’t listen to them. People and friends love to put a nice full stop on things. Funerals are usually a theatre for the mourners. Very seldom do they relate to the dead. The body in the coffin will prove that silence speaks the truth. And what of me? …

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Recent Pieces by Chris

  • Aching for the season of loves memory
  • A time out of mind
  • The Chapel in the Wilderness
  • “The unseen guest”
  • Weeping that does not touch
  • 33 lights to the wind
  • Where shadows hide
  • Theatre
  • Ted and Dave
  • We’ll meet by the Chip shop in Marmaduke Street

Music from Chris

  • Looking for the Carpenter
  • Dry Leaves On A Bed Of Memories
  • Frozen Oranges & 60s Ice Cream
  • Romeo’s Railroad Remembered
  • Liverpool Bells
  • Herbert Moonslot and his Magic Umbrella
  • Arnold Plum and the Tramper’s Doom
  • The Ancient Cowboy
  • Branch Line
  • Nayland – A Cuckoo Crying

Notable poems and pieces

  • Bill and Patsy
  • British Underclass
  • Arnold Plum

Recent Comments

  • Nick Parry-Jones on Ted and Dave
  • Mark Sutcliffe on Links
  • Richard on The Room
  • Richard Myerson on In search of Rossi’s ice cream parlour
  • Chris Pitts on The class of 61

Brian Jones

On the River

Nayland

Moonslot…

Archives

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  • September 2018
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  • January 2018
  • October 2017
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  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
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  • April 2016
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  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
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