@CottonJones
DANG! I only wrote and published three sonnets last year. I will never write more than Shakespeare at this rate. I've just uploaded my second Wattpad to Quill for safekeeping. I, of course, tweaked most of them to smooth them out, but for this year, I hope to write many more. If you haven't read my sonnets I think you'll enjoy reading all. https://www.wattpad.com/story/61262005-sonnets-written-by-olan-l-smith
I ammend and reworked Sonnet XXIV, "My Brother Bowed," while I am backing up all my poetry to the Quill online app https://www.wattpad.com/907929078-sonnets-written-by-olan-l-smith-sonnet-xxiv-my This is for peace of mind as I lost all my data when my computer had to be replace. The sonnet was rough and disjointed, so I rewrote many lines to get it to flow like a sonnet should. I hope you enjoy it.
i bet u won't regret reading my work! i too hope to check out ur work soon!
@CottonJones thank u again!!
thanks for voting, frnd!
I'm back!! We had an electrical blackout about 3 weeks ago that took out my desktop computer and my freezer. I lost all data (poems, photos, and etc.). also am my frozen foods. I have missed every one, and will try to catch up when I can.
It has been maddening to replace the Refrigerator and computer, but both are replaced, and I'm in the process of setting up the computer. I have some backup on my laptop that I might be able to set up now that I have a new way if IDing myself to them. I think it is matter of time that I will have to give them my DNA to do such. Already I can use my fingerprints if I wish.
@Ajay-Kumar No, but I've recovered some of the work on my old laptop, at least the poems I wrote in 2023. I just used Wattpad for a cloud but am now working on copying what's on Wattpad to a Quill app for peace of mind. The unpublished book and all the lost photos I have dating back to the early 1800s are more concerning. There is a way of uploading what's on the hard drive to my computer, as long as the hard drive is working and wasn't blown during the blackout.
@CottonJones ah okay, that sounds bad. didn't you make a google drive backup or any other form of cloud backuo?
@Ajay-Kumar Hey, in the words of Forrest Gump, "It happens." It is running, and that is good, but the bad is I will not get everything back for a while, or perhaps ever. It gives me panic attacks every time I shut off the computer, thinking that if the lights go out, there goes my computer. I have a surge protector, but it is fine. The computer is 15 years old, so it must have blown the power supply, as everything else is good, but I'm getting a new surge protector anyway. My manuscript for my unpublished novel is gone, and back on memory stick is unreadable. I saved the hard drive on the old computer, so perhaps it is still readable. It will take time to catch up on all my back reading, so bear with me.
This older poem is taken for my featured collection, The Wizard, and is titled, "Primordial Wizard Soup," https://www.wattpad.com/97178167-the-wizard-primordial-wizard-soup
"A Buzzard's Beat" is a uniquely Olan-style beat poem that not many of you know about my poetry. It is sad but with a trace of humor. I hope you will take the time to delve into this side of my poetic voice. https://www.wattpad.com/702538999-beat-poems-by-olan-l-smith-a-buzzard%27s-beat @gailrunschke @polllardii @frayrays @newpoet @seven-hues @preciouspearl20 @Ajay-Kumar @Polllardii @seasofme @fellow1945 @newpoet @OwainGlyn @TheMadpoetGold @La_Cloudwalker @Itshvma @jeshi99 @lyttlejoe @TonyLightning @sohinigoswami @carelesswillow @Nyhterides @18Stala @ageofanxiety @RoseCapris @ManuAndhale @shizzukaahh2301
Here is one of my poems you should enjoy reading titled, "Cotton's Paradox". https://www.wattpad.com/216165676-older-poems-from-the-pen-of-olan-l-smith-cotton%27s
"I Dream of Dead People" is an acrostic poem I wrote in 2018. I think it is worth a reread, and certainly is up for a first-time read. https://www.wattpad.com/546101050-poems-from-the-quill-by-olan-l-smith-acrostic-i