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I am entering a new chapter in my life… so… this morning I got out of bed uncharacteristically early – roughly the time normal people are expected to rise. I switched my computer on to find that all of the unpublished poetry I have written over the past six months – including the poem I was planning to post today – has disappeared. Gone forever! I shrugged my shoulders, smiled and glanced out of the window. That’s when I saw the feather. I wrote this poem:
A pale feather swims,
gently ascending,
leaving no scrape on the empty sky.
Swept by the wind
from a dying bird, it flies free,
distanced from risk
of dirt and decay.
Then I edited it…
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A pale feather swims,
gently ascending, leaving
its modest breeze on the clean sky.
Swept by the wind
from a bombastic bird, it flies free,
distanced from danger
of jabbering shame.
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©Jane Paterson Basil
So sorry. I had that happen once, after I’d returned from a Screenwriter’s convention and had several producers who wanted to see my script. I got home and my entire system crashed. I was devastated.
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You must have been… but most of my poems were unedited… and I probably wouldn’t have done anything with them, so it’s not much of a loss.
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Still, they were your creation.
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Noice one, eh Jane. Are ye gunna write more with that there feather pen that landed in ya lap?
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Who knows? I’m trying to catch up with the blogs now I finally have some time on my hands.
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ouch sorry you lost so much but this creation is beautiful as usual 🙂
Is that peaceful butterfly your creation also?
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It all reappeared as mysteriously as it had disappeared! My laptop must have been having a bad day 🙂
The image isn’t mine – I got it from Pixabay.
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I’m so glad it was only an IT seniors moment 🙂
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And a few words can make such so difference to the same lines, from despair to hope!
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Thank you for taking the trouble to compare the two versions, Parakhit, and for your thoughtful comment!
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Hi Jane… WP has been doing funny things with my …. I hope all is well with you…. and may your feather drift calmly on the new breeze…..💙🌏
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