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Posted by WolfEyes8528 on Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:15 am
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Is it possible to retrieve poetry that was submitted before the site was renovated? Or has everything been wiped clean from the database? Thanks a bunch!
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Posted by Phil on Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:23 am
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I wish it were possible to get back all the old things that had been submitted, but time has a way of erasing things, and there's no way to access a complete record of
everything that used to be here.<br>It's a shame, since there was so much good stuff that submitted here.
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Posted by Poetichick on Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:12 am
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What a bummer!<p>There was a lot of good stuff on the old Poetsquill, and I am personally disapointed because *scratches head in embarrassment* I wrote a lot of stuff in free time with no record of it anywhere, but was on here. <br><br>~<i>Eternally confused :confused:</i>~<br>Poetichicky
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Posted by WolfEyes8528 on Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:56 am
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Oh, I submitted one of my poems (currently the only poem I don't have a copy of) on here, then the site went down for renovation and yeah...now I'm left poemless. =0P
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Posted by Emily on Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:14 am
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I myself had many things on the old poetsquill that I did not save. But i'm happy that the site is up again even if there is no way to get that stuff back.
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Posted by Paolo on Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:33 pm
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Hey,<br><br>I was the webmaster of the original PoetsQuill, and I believe I do still have some of the writing that was posted on the forums! I'm not quite sure about the writing I had up on the site, but I can try and locate your poem if you give me the exact title of it when it was posted. :)<br><br>Cheers
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Posted by Michael on Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:22 am
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Yay! Yea, let Paolo know the titles, and if he has it, we can get them reinserted back into our database.
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Posted by Poetichick on Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:12 pm
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That's awesome Paolo. Thanks, I'll see if I can remember anything.
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Posted by thewerewolfslady on Sun Feb 15, 2004 7:12 am
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I know I had a ton of stuff on the old poetsquill, but not anything I was exceptionally proud of, I'm sure.<br><br>But, yay for Paolo! ;)
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Posted by Ben Grader on Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:50 am
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Paolo it was a great pity that the old site went down like it did. I found that it was so good to be able to exchange chit-chat with the Sarahbirds and others. For myself I always write, or scribble rather, my stuff down in an old reporters notebook. Then copy into Word as soon as I can because my writing is so bad after 3 or 4 days I can't read it. I make sure of this because 'somewhere' I have my work of 30-40 years ago all typed out with mistaken key strikes and the lot. Where? I can't find it. This taught me a lesson so now I print out and keep as well as having it on a spare zip disc and the extra hard drive on my PC.
<br>The answer is
<br><i> <b> If you treasure it - then keep it as though it was gold. </b> </i>
<br>You wouldn't just stack up a pile of dollar bills on your front lawn would you?
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Posted by Bluesy Socrateaser on Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:26 am
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<blockquote ><div><cite>Quote</cite>exchange chit-chat with the Sarahbirds</div></blockquote>
<br />
<br />Yes Ben, you did a lot of "chit-chatting back then, but it wasn't <em>with</em> the Sarah's[LP)...it was <em>about</em> them. Their vernacular was a vexation, not only to your righteous spirit, but to others I know of as well who now, after his passing (LP), praise him as though he were their very own guru.
<br />My memory isn't quite as short as yours Ben, if you have any left at all.
<br />It's still raining on the roses though, just in case you wanted to know.
<br />It pays to keep your umbrella stitched.
<br />
<br />Here's a couple I wrote some time ago. I've posted them in various places.
<br />
<br /><em>Lord Pineapple, this one's for you</em>
<br />
<br />Before you came
<br />I sat in the swing
<br />Thinking it was a chair
<br />Spontaneous expression.
<br />The birds in the forest sing of it.
<br />The ever-changing clouds illustrate it.
<br />Your poetry speaks of it.
<br />
<br />
<br /><em>In The Shadows Of A Pineapple</em> (losing in both of two ways)
<br />by Bluesy Socrateaser
<br />
<br />He was several
<br />of a kind.
<br />Between us
<br />we populated
<br />numerous boards
<br />Nowadays,
<br />just one of us
<br />is many more
<br />then we thought
<br />we'd ever be
<br />
<br />It's a peculiar life
<br />
<br />When the writing
<br />comes easy
<br />after the facts,
<br />and all that experience.
<br />
<br />The same people
<br />who slammed him
<br />and banned him,
<br />now pay him homage.
<br />
<br />He'd have been
<br />all over you
<br />for that.
<br />
<br />You know he would,
<br />
<br />...and he would
<br />some more.
<br />
<br />His Sarahbirds
<br />were given the boot
<br />more than once.
<br />Bob Smartass was
<br />more than society
<br />could bear.
<br />But we knew something.
<br />
<br />We knew a liar when we saw one,
<br />heard one, or read one.
<br />
<br />One of us still does.
<br />
<br />She may be gone...
<br />that Shadow that lit up
<br />this board,
<br />but it isn't her
<br />that lives in the
<br />darkness.
<br />
<br />Is it?
<br />
<br />Shadows Illuminates Me...
<br />you are Sarahs Ghost.
<br />
<br />...<img src="http://www.poetsquill.com/images/forums/emoticons/cool.gif" alt='8)' />
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