JUST PUSHING MY LUCK
eBook #5
We all have ridden our luck but like everything else a wave can’t last forever, just for a moment you are on a high and nothing else matters, but what goes up must come down, and being down is where you find most people, is this entertainment or is the torture? Do my words soothe or berate? In the misty world of literature does my contribution stand up to the real published poets and writers? Will my words fade away never to be seen again?
It has been five years since I first self-published an eBook and while things started slowly , I gained some momentum and rode my luck for a couple of years and now as I revisit these words I realise I can’t compete with what I have already done, I pushed my luck back then and now I see the world in a different light, I feel what I have done was little more than cheating, cutting corners because if I had any talent at all I wouldn’t be doing this over and over again.
So is there any room for my words? The only thing I know at this point is that I am not good at judging myself or my work, I have faith in what the reader says and it might not be always positive, I should be grateful I can join two words together and feel lucky that at least one person has read my work, maybe I am still pushing my luck after all these years.
Now let’s go back to 2015.
Darren Hobson Rome 04 April. 19
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Somehow we have all arrived in the same place and we call it the year 2015, in this modern world we live in full of technology, computer simulations, space stations and landing on Mars a lot of our daily lives are based on old age theories and presumptions.
Those old wives tales, those silly little sayings like don’t walk under a ladder, don’t open your crisps the wrong way up, if we had to obey all the superstitions in this world we would never go anywhere and never get anything done.
Just Pushing My Luck is a totally brand new eBook, the only thing in common with the other eBook, that is no longer available, is the first poem, which has been slightly modified. All the other poems were written in the first weeks of January 2015 with a common theme of superstition, luck and a whole lot more of those old wives tales.
The original poem is actually about writing and pushing the boundaries on what should be accepted in this confused world, as my ideas were coming together, tragedy struck in Paris, as everybody knows people lost their lives for “pushing their luck”, I see every side of the coin but murdering people who have offended you is not the correct way of sorting it out.
Turn off your television and close the book
The world over, artists unite
Thus pushing our luck!