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
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Blog entries by Chris Armstrong
Winter Love (10/02/2020)
Democracy (18/12/2019)
Winter Beach (04/12/2019)
Berlin Irony (19/11/2019)
Vita hominum flos est (12/11/2019)
Augury (22/10/2019)
Autumn Rain (13/10/2019)
Dark Lullaby (10/10/2019)
The Sterling Castle, 1703 (08/10/2019)
The God in the Mountain (28/09/2019)
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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.