later, much later

I've decided to dispense with the usual empty apologies and regret of not updating the blog in a timely fashion. So there.

I've not written anything for such a long time now, that it's almost become second nature to convince myself that I never did. However it came as a small surprise to me when, while tidying up the unstructured mess that is my email inbox, I found the following hidden in a long forgotten archive folder.

Never Realised (unfinished)

the tree we laughed at looked so sad
with branches torn and withered worn
where once we'd climbed and fallen there
beneath the bow so subtly torn

and so i pondered upon the sky
that bore down hard with relentless glee
taking time to try and understand
if really, truly, the tree was me

14th September 2006

Taken in isolation this poem doesn't mean anything - however it does relate to the first poem I ever had published, one that for some reason I never got around to blogging about. I've no idea why this might be, but it gives me the chance to link the two together for the first time.

However it has also brought some other, more scary, thoughts to mind - where the hell did I store all my old poetry, and did it survive the great laptop crash of 2007? I'm off to delve...