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    Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade
    Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade
    Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade
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    Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade

    By Nick Armbrister

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    This is Nick Armbrister's first volume of poetry from his ten years of writing (1996?2006). It contains both old and new poems on several types of subject matter-from life and love to Goth and war. The poems express his views and his creativity; his love of Gothic music, aircraft, the written word and weird girls inspire him and the end result is here. He wrote his poetry while in a variety of moods. Volume 2 will follow in the future with more of his poetry.

    Nick has always been drawn to the weird and wonderful, and his poetry constitutes his small addition to this. The poems are simple and lasting, and make a graphic and often startling impact that cuts like broken glass.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateSep 27, 2006
    ISBN9780595853908
    Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade
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    Nick Armbrister

    Hi, this is the publishing writing profile for Nick Armbrister, an author and publisher from Manchester, England. His work includes varied poetry and stories, including short and novel length. Topics include history, erotica, aviation, current affairs and much more. Nick has been writing since 1996 and published in the 'small press' (poetry scene) and in books for many years. He does open mic, attends writing work shops and is always working on a writing project. He has writing online and in real world books. Follow Nick's writing, news updates and more on his varied blogs links. Enjoy his writing, something different and creative. Nick has also worked with several international writers/authors/poets.Nick's other interests are gothic/alternative music, gigs, tattoos, aircraft, reading, outdoors, paganism, hiking and life. He was born in 1971.

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      Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade - Nick Armbrister

      Fade into Focus,

      Focus into Fade

      Nick Armbrister

      iUniverse, Inc.

      New York Lincoln Shanghai

      Fade into Focus, Focus into Fade

      Copyright © 2006 by Nick Armbrister

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any

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      permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in

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      ISBN-13: 978-0-595-41035-4 (pbk)

      ISBN-13: 978-0-595-85390-8 (ebk)

      ISBN-10: 0-595-41035-9 (pbk)

      ISBN-10: 0-595-85390-0 (ebk)

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Foreword

      TEAR

      GENERATION ZERO

      LEGACY

      SOUL

      REAP THE WHIRLWIND

      LONELINESS

      DAMNED

      BAD PERSON

      ATF

      ATTACK HELICOPTER

      THE OLD MILL

      DEEP BLUE SEA

      FLYING

      PARKED CAR

      "ACHTUNG PANZER!

      STUKA

      BOLLOCKS TO MY ESTATE

      THE OLD COTTAGE

      IT ALL STARTED AS FUN

      DREAM SUNLIGHT

      ENDLESS SUMMER

      THROUGH MY EYES

      THE GREY BLACK NIGHT

      BOULDER

      A COLD WINTER’S MORNING

      SPEEDING ROCKET

      RAGING INSOMNIA

      THE FARMER

      FIRING THOSE ROUNDS OFF

      MISSILE LAUNCH

      AROUND THE CHIMNEY

      TEMPEST PILOT

      GHOST DANCERS

      RELIANTROBIN

      LIFE, TIME—YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

      MAN-MADE MECHANIZATIONS

      UNKNOWN DESTINATIONS

      REAL ALE PSYCHOPATHS

      FIERYLAVA

      ARABOTH

      FRACTURED YOUTH

      ICE-COLD CRYSTAL MOON

      BELTANE SONG

      THE DARK TOWER

      BLUE SUMMER SKY

      KIA

      GRYPHONS

      ANGELICA AWAITS

      PANDORA’S BOX

      OH, ARIANNE, WHY DO YOU FAIL?

      BACKFIRE

      AIRCRAFT BONEYARD

      ALIEN COMBAT

      FRAGILE FOREST

      U.F.O.

      ODE TO JULIANNE

      CAUGHT IN A STORM

      SPIRALLING OUT OF CONTROL

      INTO MY MIND

      VOLCANO

      ARMED ASSAULT FIGHTER

      ICE

      HUMAN EMOTION ON THE EDGE

      RAGING RIVER

      MISSING

      RAGING EARTH

      OVER

      CHOICE

      VETERAN

      BLACKMASS

      PARA PAUL

      FUTILITY OF WAR

      £4.88

      REMAIN

      TROPHY

      SPACE

      DEEPER THAN ASHES

      HABIT

      ANGST

      ROTTEN

      TO THE SUN

      WITCHES

      WAR

      NOW, PEACE

      TOGETHER…ALMOST..

      THE ROOM IN THE MOUNTAIN

      MAJESTIC SKYSCAPE

      LEADEN GREY SKY

      FRACTURED CRYSTAL BY

      CANDLELIGHT

      THE GOD’S CHOICE

      RESTLESS SPIRIT

      INSPIRATION

      RUFE

      PRIVATE PILE

      TEMPERATE OCEAN

      CITY UNDER THE SEA

      SWIM IN THE SEA

      ICE CRYSTAL WORLD

      THE CRAZY PRESIDENT

      TRAPPED IN AN ENCHANTED FOREST

      DEATH OF A 747

      ON ANGELS’ WINGS WE FLY

      WOULD YOU TRUSTA COMPUTER?

      WHY DID YOU DO IT?

      THE LAKE

      BLACK CRYSTAL

      ROCK SLUT

      COLD STEEL

      LIKE ICE

      AUTOMATED WAR

      OLD BASTARD

      CRYSTAL SHIP

      OUT OVER THE FIELDS

      ROOKERY

      MENTAL ASYLUM

      INTO HELL

      NUMB

      MASS

      GLITTERING LIKE STARS

      FACTORYLIFE

      DESPAIR

      AWAY

      CATACLYSM WORLD

      ANGELICA STRIKES

      TRAGIC LOSS

      ABANDONED CITY

      DO IT TO ME

      HUSSY

      STALKER

      BIG WHEELED THINGS

      ACHING MEMORIES

      BROKEN GIRL

      MONASTERY

      GOD’S LAND

      MEMORIES

      STRANGERS

      UNDER THE THUMB

      JOYS OF MY YOUTH

      ROSE GARDEN

      SPEEDING DARTS

      WHAT WAS ONCE

      NATURE’S BATTLE

      YOUR PUB

      PARKED UP

      THE GIRL WITH THE MIG

      CASTLE IN THE CLOUDS

      PEOPLE

      WHICH FIGHTER DO YOU WANT?

      SURELYNOT

      MIND FLIGHT

      DUST UPON THE STAIR

      LAST DAY

      INBOUNDS

      DRAGON

      DESERT-STONES-MAN

      WITCHING HOUR

      RODRIGUEZ THE TINPOT DICTATOR

      SONG BIRD ARISING

      BRIGHT CITY LIGHTS

      LIKE FLAMES

      BUTTERFLY WARRIORS

      OLD HOUSE

      CITYLIMITS

      BLACKNESS

      MOORSIDE MEMORIES

      STORMY OLDHAM

      IRONIES OF WAR

      THEN JUST AS NOW

      CASTLE

      AUTUMN SKYSCAPE

      IVORY TOWER

      DRAGONLADY

      RESTING PLACE

      MALE TOILETS

      JOYS OF BEER

      TRASHY TV

      TRAPPED INA SUPERMARKET

      RED HELICOPTER

      FROSTRETURNS

      METALLIC

      NEXT STOP HELL

      BOX

      END

      PASSENGERS OF LIFE

      BURIED ALIVE

      RACIST ATTACK

      INNER CITY

      YOUR HOUSE

      WHAT A GIRL

      CAR

      LIMITATIONS

      COLLAGES

      PERSONAL HOLE

      NORMANDY BEACH

      AN UNFORTUNATE DEATH

      MAD SLAYER

      MOODY SCENE

      METROPOLIS WAR

      AVALANCHE

      PAPER HORNETS

      SPENDING SPREE

      FUTILITY OF WAR

      THING

      TORRENT

      OLD

      APE

      HALT

      PUDDLE

      TUNNEL

      AURORA

      DOWN THE CLIFF

      RESTLESS SPIRIT

      INSPIRATION

      SO LUCKY

      SHATTERED ROSE

      SUMMER SCENE

      LAST DAY

      MESAMBRIA

      ATOP THE WORLD

      BULGARIAN CARS

      TAKE A PILL

      NATURE’S GODDESS

      SUMMER

      GREEN GIRL

      SIMPLY THIS

      IN YOUR GARDEN

      VOID

      WHAT I SEE

      SLOWLY, SPEEDILY TURNING

      BATTLEGROUND

      IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS

      FORGOTTEN PROMISES

      SO I LOVE MY COUNTRY

      OAK TREE—ENGLAND

      PAUL TRANSIT VANHORSE

      SUMMER’S GONE

      SUN ON MY BACK

      REQUIEM

      HAUNTED HOUSE

      ATOP ST. NELSON’S COLUMN

      YOU AND YOUR OWNEXISTANCE

      TELEPHONE SURREALITY

      STONE

      FLOWING

      VIRUS

      MURDER BY TWILIGHT

      WE COMETH TO MARS

      PENDULUM

      PARTY

      LAKE

      NIGHTTIME

      LET SLEEP COMETH

      THE CAVE

      DEATH’S BEAUTY

      DOWN THE WINDOW PANE

      THROUGH THE MIRROR

      SPITFIRE

      LIFE OF THE STUDENT

      A DAMNING DISASTER

      OUT OVER THE FIELDS

      FEAR

      TREASURE

      JUMP

      GIRL IN THE FOREST

      VIEW FROM THE MOUNTAIN

      U-BOATBATTLE

      BEER, GLORIOUS BEER

      INTO THE BLUE

      CONTACT IS LOST

      EXPENDABLE TEENAGERS

      THE TRAGEDY OF SONG

      MR PALMER’S TRACTOR

      COLOURS

      ALLALONE

      FIREFLY

      CLARKY

      MUSTINESS

      THE ROAD

      SUICIDE CORNER

      ENGLISH LANDSCAPES

      ONE WITH THE STORM

      AZURE COBALT SYSTEM 1

      INTO THE MIST WE GO

      COME TO OUR PAGAN PARTY

      YELLOW FEATHER TRIP

      END OF A SUPERTANKER

      GHOST IN THE CHURCHYARD

      WORLD WAR 1 BIPLANE

      HEAVEN

      TOWERING MONOLITH

      BANKROBBERS

      PURPLE LANDSCAPES

      BOMB IN MYFUCKIN’ HEAD

      PAGAN WARRIOR

      TREASURE IN THE SAND

      BRICK WALL

      CHANGE OF FLAG

      SHEFFIELD GIRL

      PLASTIC PIG

      SCREEN

      AUTUMN

      Foreword

      This is Nick Armbrister’s first volume of poetry from his ten years of writing (1996—2006). It contains both old and new poems on several types of subject matter—from life and love to Goth and war. The poems express his views and his unique creativity; his love of Gothic music, aircraft, the written word and weird girls inspire him and the end result is here. He wrote his poetry while in a variety of moods. Volume 2 will follow in the future with more of his poetry.

      For people who say poetry is a Victorian genre and has no appeal today, that today is the age of the internet and trash novels, he has this to say: Go to your local bookshop, go to the poetry section and have a look. Buy a book and read it—show the world that poetry is alive and well. Even better, pick up a pen and write a poem: one day you may even have a book out!

      Nick has always been drawn to the weird and wonderful, and his poetry consti- tutes his small addition to this. The poems are simple and lasting, and make a graphic and startling impact that invariably cuts like broken glass.

      Charles Muller

      Diadem Books

      www.diadembooks.com

      TEAR

      I am a black diamond with a dark flaw so deep in my heart it can never be healed. Will this inconsistency be my downfall or my saviour? I will not know until my fate is in the balance. Now I don’t know. I weep silent tears and pray to my pagan gods and goddesses to release me, to let my end be right now. Judge me on my actions.

      I stand before the northern sky; black, it is, a gulf between me and the heavens, only an illusion. Is it me or am I it? There is an understanding somewhere but not here, not now. How many other dark souls are like me in this tortured and cracked universe which has no name, just a feeling that is as old as time, as old as our consciousness?

      We are the generation of the damned, forever so until our end, until the circle runs straight and we are no more. Cracked diamonds forever failing…

      GENERATION ZERO

      We are the generation zero, born without a hero.

      Waiting, waiting for it to happen, caught without a weapon.

      To you I turn in my hour of need, part of the same creed.

      Our leaders fail us and fill their pockets, building nuclear rockets.

      What can we do but run from this zoo?

      Generation zero, generation zero, caught against the trap of a material world.

      March and unite in a display of being bold

      Generation zero, generation zero, throw away teenagers burnt in the fire,

      as their parents choke in their children’s funeral pyre.

      Watch and learn, be by my side, we can swallow our foolish pride.

      Into the war we venture, unafraid to fall.

      If the devil dogs get us, join me and be my evenfall.

      England cries as her folk party and trip,

      On make believe happiness, the Devil’s whip.

      This is the fire of President Blair’s treachery,

      an experiment of hypocrisy.

      Soon no one will be left, except me and you.

      Can we be strong and come out true?

      Generation zero, generation zero, caught against the trap of a material world.

      March and unite in a display of being bold.

      Generation zero, generation zero, throw away teenagers burnt in the fire,

      as their parents choke in their children’s funeral pyre.

      The system has failed us and has now broken our backs;

      now the enemy follows in our tracks

      to hunt us down and take our lives in a frenzy of death.

      Stand with me and fight to the last, become my heroine of the earth.

      Together in slow motion we fall,

      fallen souls against it all.

      Generation zero, generation zero, generation zero…

      LEGACY

      Be my legacy through the ages,

      I call your name not knowing who you are or if you exist in my time and space.

      I know we have met before, now lost memories turned to dust.

      I live on my own, a dark shadow in a chaos-driven world.

      Soon we’ll meet, when I can’t say, tomorrow, or in a thousand years,

      you are my legacy that I wait patiently to find.

      SOUL

      A tortured soul is mine from the depths of my pain to the realms of time.

      How am I to live with this endless melancholy?

      I cry out, a silent scream, for no one is listening to my hurt and loss.

      I am alone, total isolation.

      I look up at the dark menacing bulk of the mountains and I feel one with the

      huge sleeping monolith—loneliness, despair, pain—a dark gothic beauty in silent

      suffering.

      Soon I have to go back to the surreality of society but for now I’m left alone on

      the northern moors. They take my pain away and cleanse my misguided soul.

      REAP THE WHIRLWIND

      Thou has hurt me and betrayed me, thou has contrived with my enemy and

      fucked him. When thee fucked him did thee show no regret or remorse for thy

      actions?

      Or did thee smile with glee and laugh behind my back?

      I will pay you back equal pain, I will show you what it is like to be hurt and

      deceived.

      Thee will take to the hill and abandon thy life through shame, damned to the end

      of time…

      LONELINESS

      Loneliness

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