Favourites

Authors are funny creatures whenever we write. Most of the time we don’t like what we’ve written, but there are occasions when we will write something that we really do like, then we hate letting that fledgling out of the nest. I’ve been writing for more years than I really care to admit, and yes, I have my favourites among all the writing I’ve done. A novel called Blind Tiger has never left the nest and a short story called The Man Who Was Always Late, again never seen by anyone. However is saying that, there have been a couple I have actually let go. Both were originally song lyrics, which I’ve turned into poems. One I actually sang in a concert at one time with the curious title of I’ll Take All The Blame. The other has really done me proud, it has reached the dizzy heights of the top 500 poems here. It was only released because I felt it was the only good thing I had at the time and is called Just Beyond The Sunset. I loved it when I wrote it on a merry-go-round some forty odd years ago as I looked towards the west at a setting sun. Now it is the best-loved poem I have with another fifteen others adding it to their favourites as well. 26 December 2007