Long Hols Poems

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 know they tell lies
And there isn’t a laptop that comes...

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In his green anorak
With a red bobble hat
He was sat in the midday sun
He was looking so glum
Our dear teenage son
Such a look on his face
For the last place on earth
He wanted to be
Was a...

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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 know,
It’s clear she does not.
We qualify.
We split.
She’s in London,
I am...

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THE FINAL SCORE

Returning home off my hols, with the two cats in tow
It is off to the supermart for a tuna tin top up, we go

The old town to me just doesn’t quite look, the...

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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 12 there on my own
watching my football team for the...

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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 smart
Before they booked there hols in NZ for next year.

The...

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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 it’s six pigs in blankets and biscuits for cheese

Faced with...

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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 phoning for breakdown rescue.

The ants were enormous, the grasshoppers blue
Inside...

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Thinking of years gone by of my mum
a real friend to me, a real support
always there in my stammering struggle
what would I have done without her comfort

Every Saturday morning we went to our town
on the...

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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 getting out feeling so barred

It seemed I was stuck in...

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

We begged some sandwiches cans of coke to drink
Borrowing a fishing...

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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 gal went on hols to Thailand, wanted a good time....

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SPRING TIME
Springtime’s here it’s come at last
 Winter’s over, it’s gone, it’s past.
It’s time to plant your bulbs and seeds
And clear out all those nasty weeds.

It’s time to shed those winter blues
Let’s all dig out...

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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, 
then Malcolm and Elaine's place, for some jazz 
and Jamieson's....

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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 was given to me
spending time alone loving to walk
among God's...

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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 learned to swim for years
till in my late twenties I...

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