Sailing on

I am really sailing well as apart from enjoying my cruises i am selling quite a few books and getting a lot of recognition. This is explained by many kind compliments and great interest in my books, and also my support of Help for Heroes. This has led to more people buying my books and also on last cruise I was allowed to read my poems on the ship as part of the entertainment.

Again this was very well received with over 30 people attending at quite short notice, and I am also going to read again on my next cruise in April, hopefully with a bit more advertising and promotion of me it could be even better too. It goes without saying I’m “well chuffed” with all this.

To add to all this my 15th book is about to be published and as a compilation of romance and love poems is entitled “Poetic Passions”. With that in mind I will give a “taster” and put up the lead poem for this book.

Love’s Lottery

Its said love makes the world go round

And it can certainly lead to some fun,

But also some regrets and sadness too

If your love parcel comes undone.

Though you can’t beat the ecstatic feeling

Of meeting a special someone in a trice,

And if you could bottle that sensation

You could sell it at any given price.

So we can clearly see there’s a dilemma

Of elation or maybe coming unstuck,

But it is surely well worth the chance

Like throwing a dice to test your luck.

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That has got us nicely started with a premiere bonus then and the book also features such titles as “Signs and Signals, Night and Day, Needs and Love Pains” etc, and I will show then the exciting and successful time I am having at the moment and want to share with you all. To that end the next short poem, again a lead verse from my 3rd book in 2015 says it all=

Forward Gear

The years on you keep rolling by

Whatever your health, or state of mind,

And there is nothing you can change

So best leave time past behind.

Though some lessons can be learned

From previous mistakes made,

For however much they affect you

At your own feet they were laid.

So move forward with new joy

And all sad regrets you must ban,

Whilst not ru-ing what you can’t do

Just give thanks for what you can!

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JOKE TIME :

Before the jokes the poem intimated that with effort you can succeed, so as I have had a good share of success at the moment my next poetic offering from my 8th book, (Poetic Seeds to Fruition) is a bit tongue in cheek, as I tend to do at times, is called “No Experience Required)…

No Experience Required

No previous experience required

Is exactly what the advert said.

But what precisely does that mean,

I thought as I scratched my head?

Maybe just anyone can do the job

Even the proverbial monkey trained,

Or someone with a rock bottom I Q

Will get it when once explained,

Exactly what is necessary to do

That needs no previous experience.

So obviously a very mundane roll

For someone of little sense.

Or perhaps that is a bit unkind,

For the job could be highly skilled

When a right applicant has learnt,

And then they’ll soon be thrilled

With the opportunity given them,

Though maybe a low starting rate,

Could mean why no experience

Is wanted for jobs on a plate.

So those are thoughts and ideas to

A “no experience required” label,

Which really makes you wonder

Just what exactly is on the table,

If you should need to venture in

To employment advertised so bold.

So I have serious reservations

About what you will be told.

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In the midst of all my activities at present I still continue to do my monthly poetry corner article for the now Hailsham, Eastbourne and Bexhill News which also brings me recognition and more book sales. This excellent free newspaper is very popular now and is only just over three years old. and my column has been included since the start.

Following on from all this recent activity I have just heard from James Harvey, my excellent publisher and Website Guru, that he has received all my first draft for my latest book “Poetic Passions”, so off we go with that too….

Finishing up this blog then I just need to thank everyone for all my support as usual. (my total given to Help for Heroes is now £11,500), so again a BIG THANKS as I post the last poem, again a romance one, but HEY there are EIGHTY more in my new book.

Beam of Love

In the darkness now I think of you

Though you may be near or far.

And if I saw you would I know,

If you’re my missing star?

For it is very hard to find someone

If you don’t know how they look.

For I have never seen or met you,

Or found a description in a book.

So maybe that’s why in the dark

I fantasise I feel your breath,

Because I’m denied sight or sound

Thus think you’re a gift from death.

Though you are not here to touch

And however hard I try to see,

I know you, my mysterious spirit,

Are watching and waiting for me.

In the darkness now I think of you

Though you may be near or far.

So if I saw you how would I know,

If you’re my missing star?

Why do I feel your shadowy form

As if you are all around my bed?

So where have you come from,

To be inside my head?

Thus I’m making a request to meet

Whatever time, or in a dream.

Perhaps you’ll come and take me

To love by the moons night beam.

For now I know what the truth is,

You’re a figment of imagined love,

Someone I met, though didn’t see

Who’ll be there in the stars above.*

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It just leave me to say goodbye from this blog and just WHAT new will the next one bring?

Thanks again, for as ever The Journey Continues….

SAILING ON WELL

All love and light,

Laurie xx