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West Virginia
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Favorite Quote“"If God is with us, who can be against us?" ” |
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Sex | male | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite Poets | Leonard Cohen, Billy Collins, Frank O'Hara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite Authors | John Sanford, Stephen King, Jerry Yulsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greatest Influence | My parents | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| About me | I was born in Flushing, NY, lived a few years in Brooklyn, and, except for a year in Siciliy, I lived the rest in New Jersey. Recently my wife Sharon and I moved here to West Virginia and love it. I had my first writing published in the Sunday New York News when I was sixteen. It was an essay entitled "Presidential Timber" and it won me the whopping sum back then in 1957 of $25.00. I had already been writing poems since age nine, thanks to the encouragement of my good parents. Much of my poems, stories, articles, and letters have appeared widely here and abroad. Most recently, a true story of mine, "Dance Lessons" is included in a recent Chicken of the Soul book, Celebrating Brothers and Sisters. I love to write and do so daily. My most recent book, published in India, is called A Dusting of Star Fall: Stories and Poems. Copies for $15 + $2 shipping are available from me. E-mail me at buttashar@aol.com for details or go to my site http://www.geocities.com/sambpoet. More than writing I love my wife Sharon. We've been married nearly twelve years and I cannot imagine my life without her. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A GHAZAL ABOUT LOST POEMS
Today the news that churned my belly sore?
Some hacker set afire all my poems.
At first the light went out; the screen went bare.
The motherboard? A fire? All my poems
Unsaved on disks would perish in a flash.
A gray ash from fire, once all my poems!
If not the end of joy, then surely this:
A kind of sorrow losing all my poems
That all along I thought were rather safe
Inside the folders labeled “All My Poems.”
So now what should I do: begin again?
Line by line copy on discs all my poems
From here on in I should decide to write?
Or take up a new craft? Must all my poems
I penned––my bid for immortality––
smolder in peace? Oh, rest now all my poems!
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(C) 2008 Salvatore Buttaci
Beautiful sad poem
Barbara Writes hope this didn’t happen to you for true. no suggestions.
from Salvatore
Barbara,
No, the ghazal is true to an extent. My computer crashed at the end of 2005 and I lost all my poems written that year; however, I always print out my poems and tape/glue them in a blank book so I have at least a copy should the computer turn diabolical. I’ve been saving poems in blank books for about 20 years now. To date this year I’ve written 151 poems! I’ve been writing poems since 1957, but you can imagine most of the 50s and 60s poems are gone.
Salvatore
From B. Writes
Barbara Writes i have many poems from the eighties and nineties that are hand written. many are on disk and jump drives since those days. learn how to back up my computer this year. Since my motherboard went out on my the last laptop.