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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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South Louisiana

0 posted 2012-06-04 08:34 PM

I live alone
well, my mutt Zoe keeps me company
she's a sweetheart
don't have a job
except writing, and I do that daily
have a novel going
always it seems
poetry, you betcha I write every day
sometimes I get a wild hair
and really get down with the poems
like this morning
I awoke and realized
I had fifty-six unpublished poems
so what'd I do
in an act so stupid I still can't believe it
deleted all fifty-six from the CD
gone
forever and ever
gone
if I was a wimp
I'd be crying
I feel like crying
AT&T Techs (three different ones)
and I tried to pluck
the poems out of cyberspace
nothing doing
they're gone
excuse me
my wimpyness is coming out in me
I need to go somewhere
and cry

ï¿½June 4, 2012 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

[This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (06-05-2012 08:33 PM).]

Startime1955
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since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

1 posted 2012-06-04 10:14 PM

Oh My Gosh!!! I know just how you feel...I've done it myself...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

ebonygirl
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since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

2 posted 2012-06-05 01:04 AM

I feel for you, JP. Well, at least you're not missing
one hundred poems... 56 is a lot though.
I hope they will come back to you, in time.
Ms. E

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2012-06-05 01:16 AM

That's whu I print out every poem and paste it in a notebook. Sometimes you need old fashioned back-up.
Ida

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2012-06-05 04:54 AM

Awww ... for every tear you cry a new poem will be born within your heart, I say.

You are a very prolific writer.

Still I hope it will be possible to track them somehow.

Bitter moment well rendered.

Margherita

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2012-06-05 06:34 AM

Karen, slept on it. Still sick, but life goes on. Thanks for the commiseration.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2012-06-05 06:35 AM

Naw, Ms. E, I think they are forever gone. Drat. Thanks for being here.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JerryPat2
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South Louisiana

7 posted 2012-06-05 06:35 AM

That is a very good idea, Ida, about printing them out. Thanks.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JerryPat2
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South Louisiana

8 posted 2012-06-05 06:36 AM

You bet it is a bitter moment well remembered, Margherita .

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

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Between the Lines

9 posted 2012-06-05 06:53 AM

I use to print them out ages ago and have just started doing it again. But I have thousands especially from that first year or two of being online.

I bought several scrapbook type albums and will spend the summer picking out certain ones and illustrating or decorating them with the memories. They won't have any particular meaning to anyone else but if and when I feel like going back in time~~~ they will be there to remind me of how I got to where I am.

Sorry about losing yours in cyberspace.

M

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

10 posted 2012-06-05 07:32 AM

Thanks, M. I don't feel the same amount of disgust and horror as I did yesterday. Yesterday I just couldn't believe I had really deleted those poem. I kept putting the CD in the computer just knowing that the poems weren't really gone. I'll survive, but still . . .

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Paul Wilson

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since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

11 posted 2012-06-05 06:03 PM

Jerry

I feel for you man. Thats why I always print mine like Ida, also I put them on a flash drive.

Do you have a go back feature on your computer where you could go back for 24 hrs. and it would all be like it was 24 hrs from now

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

12 posted 2012-06-05 06:14 PM

Thanks, Paul. I call myself being very careful, it was just one of those weird things that happened. Yeah, I have that feature, it didn't work, because the poems were all individually burnt onto the CD and then erased. I fear they are gone forever.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

Sunshine

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13 posted 2012-06-05 10:53 PM

I read Enfant Terrible and wondered "what the heck?"...

and now I know.

I'm so sorry.

JerryPat2
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14 posted 2012-06-06 06:38 AM

Yeah, a little feeling sorry for myself. Thanks Karilea.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

15 posted 2012-06-06 02:12 PM

Jerry, if you posted any of them here they will be in the archives. I hope you did. If not, all I can say is I am sorry,as I know they would be hard to rewrite as they exactly as they were by memory alone. jo

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

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South Louisiana

16 posted 2012-06-06 02:42 PM

No, they were ALL unpublished, Jo. I just tried a recovery software, but it didn't do anything. They;re just gone, and nope, I could never rewrite them. Thank you for your kind words.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

ethome
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since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

17 posted 2012-06-06 05:49 PM

Whew, Jerry that's too bad man, wow, is there nothing you can do?

Must be quite an empty feeling as there would be a lot of fond work done in those.

Keep on writing!

Eric

true love never looks after it's own interests

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

18 posted 2012-06-06 05:52 PM

If there is anything to do I don't know what, Eric. I have been with the AT&T Tech guys and gals. they couldn't do anything. I tried it myself with a software, didn't do anything. It made me almost physically sick the day it happened.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

19 posted 2012-06-11 11:25 AM

I understand how this would make you physically sick... it's losing part of yourself. You have my sympathy!!

JerryPat2
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Posts 16975
South Louisiana

20 posted 2012-06-11 11:36 AM

I'm better now, suthern, time helps you put things in perspective. Ah, but the day it happened was not a good day and the two days after that day weren't so good either.

Thanks for stopping by with your sympathy face on today.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

21 posted 2012-06-11 09:30 PM

Nice...I find that sometimes I say almost the same thing 10 different ways, so thoughts have a way of finding words...James

JerryPat2
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South Louisiana

22 posted 2012-06-11 09:41 PM

You lost fifty-six poem at a time too, James? I guess hearing that I feel lucky..

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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