Poll closed

I’ve stopped the poll to help me decide about which poem to put in the exhibition. I was a bit disappointed that it when I changed the design it seemed to have forgotten the previous responses, and at least a couple of people wrote in answers that didn’t get recorded. So not a resounding technological success, but “The Element of Earth” was a clear winner, so many thanks to those who read the poems and voted.

Help me decide

[Update: I applied a different design to the poll, and now it thinks its a new poll - apparently - and has forgotten the previous results! So if you vote, remember there are more responses than what you are shown aftewards...]

I have been asked to put a poem into a local exhibition, and I’d like help to choose which one to put in.

I’ve entered the ones that seem most appropriate to me (have to be short-ish to fit onto one or two at most sheets of paper).

Click the “Poetry” link at the left to have a look at these selections.

What do you think? If you don’t like any of these, write in your wild card choice!

Thanks …

(poll removed)

Developments

Well, my neighbour with the musical equipment has left for sunnier climes until February, and I now have the use of all his gear, including electric guitar, good condenser mic and audio input box with phantom power (for the mic). He also said I could come over to his house and use it there instead of transporting everying over to mine, so instant recording studio as well. No excuses now.

We were over at their house last night, and his partner asked me if I had written some new songs, and it made me realise I haven’t written anything at all lately apart from scraps of the novel. Last song was written at Beltaine (The Running of the Deer) and the last poem – okay, The Blue Dog was pretty recent, but the creative output has not been prolific, shall we say.

That makes me sad because writing creatively is what keeps me going in life, I really enjoy it and think the fruits of my labours are on the whole pretty good. I don’t know what it will take to get me to start living the dream.