Day2: Every kick up the backside is a step forward on your path

Today's title is a Rumanian proverb and what better way to summarise the require attitude to get a book published! We must turn setbacks into success, sooner or later and with repeated effort.
I spent last night reinstating chunks of material back into my book, even though my book as it stands will probably need to be slimmed down during the editing process. Not 100% sure of whether to stop this book early and start my second book with the material from the end of this one. Need to get some professional feedback on that.
Nearly did not include this poem in my book, but decided to last night. I wrote it in Cannes.

NOSTALGIE
Remember, ma cherie
Ile Saint-Honorat's cicada-loud trees
revitalising our London hearts
with sun-celebrating wild life
with needed meditation.

Remember, ma cherie
sitting to picnic
on delicieux salade et fruit
by the warm sea
where I found you an old silver spoon

Remember, ma cherie
taking photos of one another
near the sea's blue under the arch
of Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lerins
where our unwinding began.

Remember, ma cherie
the immaculate streets dripping flowers
houses jolie with shutters
palm trees everywhere adding elegance
to the church of beauty.