Pitts Poems

Premium MemberMY BABY

...IT'S BEEN AWHILE PERHAPS EIGHT BEFORE THE MURDERS YOU SEATED WITH JAMAICAN JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY ATTEMPTING TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN THE 1984 CHRISTMAS DAY ARSON THAT RESULTED IN 8 ELDERLY PERSONS...
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Categories: pitts, allah,
Form: Naat

Premium MemberINVICTUS

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 *Inspired By Nelson Mandela

 Out of the Pitts of Darkness, In the Absence Of Light
 where even the faintest smile Glistens, In Spite
 there I give thanks to the Higher Power Abode
 That I, h...
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Categories: pitts, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme


Coping

...Coping

Now I have found I can “order things.”
I can talk to a store and describe what I want.
That way I have a friend with a voice,
And a doorbell that rings with a jaunt.

There is a person...
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Categories: pitts, feelings, house, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Light Verse

Dust

...A wonder! My eyes bloomed in the Sun,
a beauty, bright, has blinded.
Until, the Moon has set and hung,
above ashes, dust, and silence.


- Christopher Pitts 2/23/2020...
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Categories: pitts, age, beauty, birth, death,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberThe Rites of Spring

...A named Mercury plies the air
above his fountain
in the Phipps Conservatory.

Children wet their fingers
in the receiving pool
and stare
up at possibilities
that may enable them
someday
to ...
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Categories: pitts, assonance, celebration, flower, love,
Form: Rhyme


Evil Woman

...she curses him
with 
insults and curses
she speaks ill of him
and makes him target
in her verses
she screams to curse
and speaks to unravel
and her mind is sultled with shame
she wishes to u...
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Categories: pitts, adventure, analogy, angel, anti
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberYou Are Beholden

...I am the son of the fallen Adam
I should've burn in Hades
But I've repented

I was wrap up tied up fallen
Headed for the burning Pitts
Now the life is right for midnights
But let me inform you...
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Categories: pitts, beautiful, blessing, celebrity, christian,
Form: Free verse

Kindle the Light

...to light our path
our mind has shown
the way for every step
but still we have
so little unknown
of the steps we all have left





Christopher R. Pitts - Non Premium Member
12/1/12...
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Categories: pitts, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Verse

A Flame Once Burned

...lingering embers lay smoldering out
fingers searching through ashes
rearranging, but always in doubt
to find all of the matches
re-piece all that matters

the dull glow lingers, hanging around
forcin...
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Categories: pitts, devotion, loss, lost love,
Form: Quintain (English)

Basins of My Downfall

...cant believe the make believe 
and speak as it was spoken
forced to bite my tongue 
and break into the ocean
slipped off ledges filled with glass
and entangled in frustration
the water left its mark,...
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Categories: pitts, angst, childhood, fear, growing
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberMonday

...MONDAY

Woke up on the wrong side of the bed,
There's a mind numbing pain at work in my head.
Wash my hair and comb my face,
Something died in my mouth, where's the toothpaste?

Grab a quick b...
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Categories: pitts, angst, funny, work, day,
Form: Couplet

Trevor Thomas Pitts

...You say you know me, Then tell me what Im about
Because from where im sitting im seriously in doubt

You can depict me, to anything that you think
I'll tell you who I am, with indelible ink

Im...
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Categories: pitts, lifeme, me,
Form: Rhyme

Forever and Always

...I sit here thinking about you
all the things you have gone threw
so mature for being such a young girl
everthing you shouldnt have gone threw in this world
The pain is over... I am here... your k...
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Categories: pitts, love
Form: Rhyme

The Mathematics of Love

...The Mathematics of Love



The Mathematics of love are quiet simple really

Though we may think
Some algorithmic logistic
Imparts some spiritualist medium of the heart

Perhaps some benign ...
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Categories: pitts, funny, lovepower, , cute,
Form: Free verse

Late

...Damn I'm late. Time moves slow but, sure as the devils footsteps. Ever so lightly 
as sin and time passes by. Damn I'm late. Time is creeping up on you like the 
sure death of cut wrists, and the r...
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Categories: pitts, on work and working,
Form: Bio

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