Otwituaries : Andy Jackson's tweet-length poetic elegies for the departed: Noel Harrison

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Noel Harrison - d. October 20th 2013

That quiet voice,
barely a voice at all,
and the fragment
of your song;
at your passing
I still wonder -
to whom did they belong?

Read about Noel Harrison here

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George S27 October 2013 at 09:43
Just found these and been right through them. I think they are marvellous. It looks like a very good - and successful - book in the making. I have linked to three of them on Twitter.
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Andy Jackson28 October 2013 at 07:20
Thanks George - that's kind of you. Sad that someone has to die for me to get to write one, but hey, poetry is a life and death business!
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About the Otwituaries

I started tweeting these poetic obituaries via Twitter on the death of Ernest Borgnine in July 2012. After a while a friend asked if I would gather them together, so I have created this blog as an archive. New Otwituaries will appear here as well as being broadcast via Twitter and Facebook.

All the Otwituaries are written very quickly on the day their subjects pass away, so are clearly lacking in polish or the insight that only comes in time, but they are all from the heart. They represent the people who have, in some way, touched my life - actors, musicians, sporting figures, TV personalities, writers, explorers and assorted others of note.

We live in an age where people are celebrated for the most modest of achievements - news and media ensure that seemingly everyone gets their five minutes of fame if they stick around long enough. It may therefore seem a little morbid or even self-serving on my part to write about the recently-deceased (few if any of whom I have actually met), but these people already enjoy some degree of immortality through their celebrity, and therefore don't need a poem from me. I hope you enjoy reading these short poetic sketches all the same, in the spirit they are intended.