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The Amesbury Refugee ( The King of Stonehenge)
This lyric celebrates the life of the Amesbury Archer, a Bronze Age migrant to Britain bringing new technologies and ideas.
Chris Nash
Jul 16, 20243 min read
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Purbeck Summers
This lyric sings of the interwoven, inseparable connections of Summer and Winter that create the environment of the Isle of Purbeck, Wessex.
Chris Nash
Jul 14, 20241 min read
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Siting a House (by the Chinese Tang dynasty poet Du Fu)
'By the flower washing river
On the western bank,
Master of my house,
I've chosen the quiet woods
And river bank.'
Chris Nash
Jul 13, 20241 min read
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Early Morning Nanjing
"their fine fingers of summer leaves
breaking over us in waves of light "
Chris Nash
Jul 13, 20241 min read
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We Are All Refugees, Seeking our True Home.
The moon has opened you up, you curl like a gull inside her. A siren sea has begun to wail, her salt tears staining the land. ‘It is a...
Chris Nash
Jul 13, 20241 min read
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Amunni
This song celebrates Sicily as a place of the meeting of worlds.
Chris Nash
Jul 5, 20201 min read
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Blues for George Floyd - A Sonnet
This is a song for George Floyd and the unity of resistance that will grow from his murder.
Chris Nash
Jun 2, 20201 min read
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Awakening
This song is about the world's return from lock-down. It links us to nature's spirit of resurgence, both daily and with the seasons.
Chris Nash
May 14, 20201 min read
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Alcantara -The Bridge
This song sings of the endurance of border-less love in a time of fragmentation.
Chris Nash
May 8, 20201 min read
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A Change is Gonna Come ~ 2020 re~mix
This meditates on the coronavirus crisis and the need for cultural and ecological re-balance.
Chris Nash
Apr 28, 20201 min read
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北京之春~ Beijing Spring
A song about the re-birth of Spring.
Chris Nash
Apr 13, 20201 min read
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Who are we and how did we get here?
This poem was inspired in part by the doorstep isolation of the coronavirus crisis.
Chris Nash
Apr 11, 20201 min read
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Hokusai's Return
This song is about our response to crisis.
Chris Nash
Apr 5, 20201 min read
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Monkey Mountain
This is the song of the Red Shanked Douc Langur threatened with extinction in the remote jungles of Vietnam.
Chris Nash
Mar 28, 20201 min read
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Ballad of the Bees
This poem sings the communitarian song of the Honey Bee, contrasted with philosophies of individualism.
Chris Nash
Mar 26, 20202 min read
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Coral's Last Dance
This is the song of the ocean coral. Coral reefs can be thought as the rain-forests of the sea.
Chris Nash
Mar 24, 20202 min read
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Gondwana Blues (the rotting sea)
This is the song of the Antarctic penguins threatened by extinction through global warming and habitat destruction.
Chris Nash
Mar 21, 20202 min read
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Earth~rise (what have we done?)
This poem is inspired by the famous photograph taken of Earth from space by William Anders in 1968.
Chris Nash
Mar 20, 20201 min read
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Slipper Orchid (an abusive relationship)
This is the song of the Asian Slipper orchid. 99% of Asian Slipper orchids are threatened with extinction.
Chris Nash
Mar 19, 20202 min read
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In My Backyard ~ A story of everyday extinction.
This poem sings the songs of the wildflower species that are close to extinction in Britain right now.
Chris Nash
Mar 18, 20201 min read
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