Chris Armstrong
Updated: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:03 pm
Biography
Sailor and librarian, navigator and researcher, teacher and trainer, and – always – a traveler. Although born in Sussex, I have lived in Wales most of my life – for the last forty years in the country, farms and hills near Tregaron. All this – and more – have shaped the poems which reflect the joys and tragedies that life brings. Although a 'scholarly' writer for more than thirty years, it is only in the last ten or so that I have found expression through verse. Perhaps life's larger trials lead to deeper outpourings. The past is always present I am always interested to see how my poems affect readers.
Samples
Druid Lane We came upon A mystic way leading nowhere but the hills. Floored in leaves, tree roofed, bank-bound Untrodden but by wanderers for centuries past. What lay beyond, worthy of such industry? Perhaps a long forgotten hearth tenured by shepherd or crone. Or did this tended track pass on to a hilltop way: Miles now lost to grass and sheep, A one-time druidic path to some time-eroded henge The copper leaf-rustle underfoot speaks of many passings Hidden in time
My Books
Mostly Welsh – Poems of landscape, love and loss: Available on Amazon The Dark Trilogy – A book that follows one man's life might be an autobiography, but what is a book that traces the lives of two men?... The fictional autobiography... Available on Amazon Braiding Brexit: A Lemming’s-eye View: Available to view or download https://i-booklet.co.uk/ChrisArmstrong/BrexitPoems/ Book of the Spirit - A poetry chapbook. Available at https://curatedlines.online/index.php/books/#BotS When I Am Not Writing Poetry: Selected Short Stories. Available at https://curatedlines.online/index.php/books/#WIANWP Lost Time: Chorus and Other Poems. Available at https://curatedlines.online/index.php/books/#LTCOP
All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.
Blog entries by Chris Armstrong
A New Nursery Rhyme (15/02/2025)
Miracles (04/02/2025)
Winter 2024, December (20/12/2024)
Destiny (22/02/2024)
Twixt Pen and Eye (23/07/2023)
In the beginning, God [early draft] (14/07/2023)
Summer Night (27/06/2023)
Grimalkin (14/06/2023)
Stars (30/04/2023)
The Door (29/04/2023)
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Blog link: https://www.writeoutloud.net/blogs/chrisarmstrong
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Comments
Chris, in your biography you say the ´the past is always present ´. For many this may seem an off the cuff remark but in reality is is an essential ingredient of our existence. Thank you. Keith
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Cynthia Buell Thomas
Fri 21st Jul 2017 16:33
I shall try to catch up with more of your work. I really admire the lyricism of your poetry, and the finesse of diction. A little learned sophistication is a blessed thing.
In your photo, is that a twisted 'knot' upon the sand? That would certainly complement your bio.