Best Hols Poems

Was a calm and uneventful day on  a family holiday  
what can we do next, how about taking that boat out to sea

We...

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So your youth has long gone and you’re feeling your age
And you squint at the print on the optician’s page
Hallway mirrors are banned cos you...

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Wobbly jiggle
Bit squidgy in the middle
Get trim for the hols!...

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My first experience in the water
when my dad threw me in
at the tender age of five I was
from then water fear hit my chin

I never...

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The day my mother died
It was approaching Christmas tide.
A morning in December I remember it well.
She had a dicky heart
And a check up they thought...

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Being adopted living in the country
an only child but knew sweet contentment
although had beginnings of a stammer
life was happy feeling no resentment

At the age of...

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The Complete Nick Armbrister Poetry Collection Volume 3 1996 - 2013
Copyright 2014 Nick Armbrister
ISBN - 978-1-326-06538-6

my poem based on true events, out of my book

Beware
Brit...

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Leftovers

Don’t let Christmas come in too much of a hurry
I really can’t handle one more turkey curry
The kids now want something else for their teas
So...

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We are thirteenish.
We meet.
I know.
She does not.
We meet at times
When home for hols.
Then I’m at varsity,
She’s a student nurse.
We meet more often.
Deep down I still...

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My life's been fine without you -- really has. 
A Belgian bar has opened in the square, 
and weekends, we do beer and tapas there,...

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Lord my God blessed indeed I am
for your ever wondrous kindness
when I look back since came to Christ
received your imputed righteousness

You have kept me in...

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So many of us have been through so much
in these recent years of covid, its been so hard
personally been horrendous with my stammer
so difficult not...

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It took fifty-seven paces to the end of the track
But for some strange reason, only fifty-six back.
I tried it again, for something to do
While constantly...

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This year has seen God very near
working His providence through many a turn
giving real opportunities to newly speak
no matter how often others would spurn

Much enjoyment...

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Hail, snow, ice cold sleet,
Fur lined wellies,cosy feet.

Wind gusting,like an arctic blast,
Wayward brollies, flying past.

Hot sun shining,ice cone treat,
Sand so hot, burning feet.

All this weather,in...

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