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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-02-28 12:01 PM

NINTH POEM TONIGHT
18 February 2011

No Internet connection
again tonight.
Urghhhh!

So, Telkom, ‘cos I can’t send Linda’s messages,
nor read Pipster-poetry,
nor email friends and relations,
I swallowed my frustration
(Telkom, you can swallow the Urghhh
and whilst I am not actually wishing
that you choke on it,
rest assured that
if you do,
I won’t be doing
CPR
on you
tonight!)
and I wrote nine poems,
but not out of weakness,
so, Telkom, don’t think you won,
for the truth is
that in return,
I am paying you the greatest insult
that I possibly could,
and that is that I have scraped away
the last vestige
of respect
that I ever had
for you.

Owl

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

1 posted 2011-02-28 01:25 PM

Frustrating isn't it.
However, you're such a clever gal and wrote nine poems.
Whew, I have never written that many poems in one night, probably one week.
Hard to keep up with you whiz-kid girls.

Glad you're back with us.
Glad I'm not the IT guy that comes to fix that problem....smile..

Write on!

Eric

the writer views a critic like a fire hydrant would view a dog

Nareena
Member

since 2011-02-17

Posts 51
BC, Canada

2 posted 2011-02-28 02:04 PM

Ah yes, I've been there, but with a different ISP. Very frustrating, but glad you were able to put the time to such a productive use!

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-02-28 04:06 PM

Thanks for the reply, Eric. Struggled about 10-15 times to get in to answer this, but at least I can get in. Smiles about the IT guy! However, the problem isn't here. It is at the exchange.

Yep, Nareena, thanks. I didn't want Telkom to win!

Owl

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

4 posted 2011-02-28 09:48 PM

I remember those days when I couldn't
connect to the outside world
and I thought my inner world
destroyed!

Yet, I wrote! And like you...

Revenge was sweet!!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2011-02-28 10:30 PM

Ah, I used to have that trouble with Comcast, but since I've switched to AT&T I've not had any. Now that I bragged on AT&T it'll probably go out tomorrow. Drat!

~ Never did I feel more devoted to my wife than after biting the wild garlic of treachery ~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

6 posted 2011-03-01 03:08 PM

Thank you, Karilea. Smiles.

Thank you, Jerry. Holding my thumbs that it didn’t happen!

Owl

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

7 posted 2011-03-01 11:18 PM

nine poems in one night?
you are amazing!

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

8 posted 2011-03-02 11:58 AM

nine poems in a row ? I never did that and I am amazed Owlsa, About the failure of computer i recalls me that we are dependant of technology now, to communicate with friends around the world, when my computer isn't working I have to reorganize activities for myself and I miss poetry...

thanks a lot Diana

yann

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2011-03-02 03:03 PM

Yes, Kate. It doesn’t happen often, though. Once before I wrote 7 in one night then lost them – I can’t remember how – I think I had them in my collection and somehow I had a hitch in the computer and the save didn’t work – or I recovered the wrong computer file – the one without them – or something like that. I only discovered it about the next day, but managed to recall 5 of them and wrote a poem about the 2 lost ones. Here it is:

LOST PETALS
12 January 2006

Wind-whirled
pieces of me
word-splashed petals
mind-gathered
into rain-healing
and cosseted
except for two
that are gone
with
their monikers,
promises
and colour songs.

Thanks, Yann. Yes, I too, miss Pip so much when I can’t get online.

Owl

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

10 posted 2011-03-02 07:43 PM

Diana, it is always good to come back into a poem you know you responded to...especially if you find another poem within the responses!

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