HECATE51

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Soldier. Pagan. Sometimes sober. Opinionated. Stubborn. Celtic. Daughter. Any questions?

  May 2023     9 months ago

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Last Night

Last night I felt the pure power of mercy
as The Goddess released you from your earthly pain.
Last night I held you close in my arms,
while my swollen eyes brimmed over with
teary relief and I stayed a silent witness of your journey to...

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That would be awesome. Would you please post the links so others can try to find their older work? Thanks,

10 months ago

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I can't imagine it would be prohibited. It's whatever name you want to enter, I think. I write under a pseudonym, but I'm registered with my legal name.

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I can only tell you what I had to find out the hard way. Nothing remains from the former poetry.com site. Nothing. Not one piece of work, regardless if it was contest, published in one of the anthologies, openly submitted or reviewed. It's ALL GONE. If you did not save a copy to any other form of retrieval, you will never find it again. You could try friends or family, if you are the type of person who shares on those levels. Otherwise, give yourself a quiet "Atta-girl" and move forward. There is nothing to be found in any search engine post take-over from poetry.com or poets.com, not even poets workshop.com. It's all been wiped clean. Sorry. It hurts but it taught me the hard lesson to save my own work on drive, disc, email, docs, or even flash drive. If you value your work, save and send to yourself before ever submitting to an external site. These sites disappear overnight and once your work is gone, it will be as if you never wrote anything at all. So sorry. 

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Sadly, I have to agree. For me, I lost everything. I mean, the total body of work, over some 5 years and more. In that bygone decade pre-takeover, it wasn't a "thing" that the site would just disappear overnight. And it did. A cross country move resulted in every single self-printed copy of my work was also lost to time. I spent several hours searching and found one result only because I had emailed it to a friend who requested it. That's all I have left. You give very solid advice. Poets, send yourself your own work. Don't trust a site, or a friend, or even your closest family members. This is a new age of data, and we few dinosaurs have been run out of town on the rails of technology and oversight. It's sad, but as an amateur author, I now know no one will protect and save my work except myself. Two tiny shining stars are the obit I published when my Father passed, and the other was a short story I wrote that actually made publication in an international journal. I have those. Thank you for sharing your information and supportive comments. I think it helps to know I am not alone. This is one quest I have had to surrender, but at least I remember I was once a fairly skilled poet and author. Life. Who knew? 

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