The Moments You Have

You are not what you think about doing tomorrow.

You are what you start to do, today.

I Wrote This For You: Just The Words - eBook

After a a traumatic year, it gives me no small sense of relief to know that as of today, the eBook for I Wrote This For You: Just The Words is available - here on amazon, here on Barnes & Noble, here on Kobo and it'll be available soon on iTunes. 

The print edition will also be out soon, if you'd prefer to hold it in your hands and draw on it with a pen.  

Here's what my publisher says about it (Thank you for all your hard work Michelle).

"The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This For You: Just The Words presents twice the number of entries with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and photography project; including several new and never before seen poems. 

While focussing on the words from the project, new photography launches each section which portray everyone's journey through the world: Love Found, Being In Love, Love Lost, Hope, Despair, Living and Dying."

We made this to compliment the original book, not to replace it. 

The original book was published in 2011 and contains nearly 200 of what we considered to be the best photographs and entries from the project - and because of the nature of full colour printing, it costs around $25.00. 

This contains more than 400 entries (many from the original book, many never printed and quite a few that are completely new that were written while I was away) and only a few black and white photographs, at the start of each chapter - which will cost around $10.00 when it's printed. 

The book has also been divided up differently, as apposed to the story I tried to tell with the first book, this simply groups the entries into what they focus on; love, state of mind or living and dying. It's designed to be something that you find something in. 

The continued support of the amazing community that has sprung up around I Wrote This For You over all these years is what made the first book such a phenomenal success, please continue to spread the word about this book, repost this to your blogs and tell your friends about it too as the more successful it is, the more we can create. 

Thank you for everything you are. 

It's good to be back, 

Me    

PS. Here's the first page. 

The Shapes Left Behind

You should not look for me in the places I once was. Look for me in the places I am now. In soft rain.

On starlit oceans.

The Ripple In The Clouds

The hardest thing to do when you go back underwater, is talk about what the sky was like.

The World Falls Away From Itself

If you promise that you'll save the world, people will believe you. And when you don't, people will forget what you promised.

The Language Breaks

You've got such beautiful words but none I can eat, none which block the rain, none which bandage my wounds, none which build a home.

Nothing beautiful, which did not work, ever became anything more than pretty.

The Wind Blew The Light Away

The world didn't end in fire. It just blew away in the rain. And who can say anything at all.

Maybe, if you are anywhere at all, you can say to someone in Italy, Indiana or the Philippines, "Don't worry, we are on our way."

I will say "Just for now, it's ok to believe in ghosts."