No Excuses! Finish Your Book!

For the last 30 years I have been writing poetry, lyrics and songs, yielding some great achievements along the way, mostly with my songs, but I have had two poems published in the past and have continued to write for the sheer joy and love of writing.

I’ve always enjoyed poetry and it’s a shame that over the centuries, it has dwindled as a definitive form of communication, but people do still enjoy writing it as a way of expressing feelings and events that maybe are difficult to express verbally.

I’ve always wanted to write a book with my poetry, but I don’t have a great deal of it — around 20 or 30 poems at the most. I didn’t think it was viable to make a book out of them, but three years ago I met someone on Facebook, who was posting his poetry for everyone to enjoy. I never had the courage to do that, but this guy’s poetry was so beautifully written and so expressive that I got in touch with him. We’ve since become good friends and I edited, produced and voice recorded a short story he had written in rhyme. I had experience in the studio through the years, overseeing the production of my songs, but I never believed I would one day actually be in the recording booth on the other side of the mic recording something, I didn’t want to leave.

I asked Daniel what else he had and he showed me some of his work, including all his poetry and it was…