I’m sure I wrote at least half of a second post before I wandered away. It has disappeared. Worse, I can’t remember what I said, I just know it wasn’t what I had planned on saying. Old age and a head full of rubbish. It’s not a great combination for clarity and productivity.
I’ve been sorting poetry. I have sufficient published Haibun and Tanka Prose to attempt a poetry collection.. Unfortunately I can’t find all of them.
Three of them, I remember, and remember where two of them were published. I can probably find them. Two others I don’t even remember what the subject matter is. One may not actually exist. I think that is down to a title change. Then there are several others which I think were accepted but I don’t have listed. I think I just remembered where one of them is published . . .
I do need a better system. I also need to back up my computer regularly as I have lost quite a lot of information over the years. Fortunately most of it can be dragged out of emails.
Latest News – I just went to the Wales Haiku Journal and dug out two poems – one that I knew was there and one I’d forgotten about but remembered whilst writing about forgotten poems. It’s not all about numbers and I made it a policy only to count them up until I reached 100. At 100 I thought I’d done enough to show I was serious. After that it’s about quality. I have in the past been critical of people who talk about numbers of poems as if quantity means they are a good poet. I’m only looking at numbers again because it feels like time to do a book. I’m not really driven to do a book, but it feels like something I should do now that I’m retired.
PS – Just found two that I didn’t have listed – they were two that I thought were published, but had forgotten where. Whatever happened to my memory?
Orange Parker Pen
If you had all the time back that you spend trying to remember things, you would have a lot of time to spend on things that you really want to do, if, of course, you could remember what they were. At least you have a clear objective in mind.
Good luck!
I’m going to need it! 🙂
Memory. What’s that….
You are even confusing me
Sorry. I used to think the writing was the hard bit. 🙂
I hope you are able to find the lost poems and get that poetry collection together, Simon.
I have most of them now. If I have forgotten them, they probably weren’t very good anyway.
I am sure they were good!
All poetry accumulations have pieces which look bad in comparison to the better bits. It’s all part of the winnowing process. To be fair there is a piece I never liked that has grown on me. Funny how things happen when you start looking at it as a whole.