There is an old saying in sport
you are only as good as your last...
game but in thoughts literature
you are as good as your best;
writer poet novelist is as good as best
writing aspired to this is the touchstone,
the benchmark the height set bar attained
in literature the writer the poet the novelist;
may be remembered for just one short
story novella novel poem drama all else,
may become secondary to 'The old Man
and the Sea' just one piece remembered;
above all else this is our summit Everest
our Noble Prize all else becomes lost...
in comparison
except to the passion,
the appreciation
the love the adoration;
of hard core fans
for the rest the candle,
flame may burn
for but a few or one;
summit piece read
but the ignored rest,
by many discarded
is back bones we built,
our struggle climb upon
an All Black cuts his teeth;
upon club rugby internationals
then tests but finally may be defined,
by all caps all records plus his test
of tests thus also in literature our summit;
touchstone test of tests
will be when heart soul mind,
combine to produce
an elixir which shall define us;
above all else will define
the heart the mind the pen,
that aspired to be an immortal moment
a brief flash in time defined;
best I can write ever for all of my life
this piece seals our literary legacy
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem