Thanks Ezmeralda, your positive comments all help me to keep my nose to the grindstone while there is still time. The poetry that I'm publishing on this site was written over a period of 40 years, so not so prolific really. I suppose I've written about 500 poems over that period, with only just over 300 that I consider good enough to survive. I started back in 1966, inspired I think by the marvellous lyrics of Lennon-McCartney. I wasn't a song-writer, but I thought that I could do the same thing with poetry. 'Beached Morning' was written 29 April 1986, after an early morning walk on the beach at Port Hughes, South Australia, where I live. It was a crisp, cold morning, and everything was fresh and dewy. The sky was overcast and grey, threatening rain, but with the sun peeping through and giving everything a special glow. That's where the 'Steel grey above' came from, then it went from there. My marriage of the time was in difficulties, which sparked the 'dreams once dreamed, let slip and tossed/Beyond deliverance.' Also the 'plans we build - like sand.' Quite sad in retrospect, because there was no saving that relationship.
Still, life goes on. Thanks for your continued interest.
David