that sinking feeling

washed the poems with the rest of my laundry

Opened the notepad

on my shiny new phone

so I could post

one of 30 odd poems

I had tucked away.

then it hit me

like the time

I threw my jeans in

with the napkins from the bar

after I hooked up

with whatshisface --

his phone number

wasn't the worst of it.

it was the poems

I jotted down

as I crunched my ice cubes.

in my excitement

over my new phone

I was a little quick

with the security wipe

on the old one.

just as effective as a Maytag

without the paper bits

stuck to my favourite pink sweater

to remind me

of the words

I lost.

Author's Note

umm nothing more to add.

Reviews

[Kesha]

I like how this captured the "oh crap" feeling perfectly. Nicely written, I like it :)

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. I didn't really like this one that much, but it's all part of the life in verse

[Kesha]

You're welcome & exactly. I know there are a few of mine that I don't really like but everybody else loved :)

[aLittlePain]

I hate that I've lost entire songs, riffs as well as random notes I jot with poems in mind. Great piece darlin, I dig the song too. R xo

[Lyn Anderson]

Not the best of mine, but I am glad people can relate

[Dara]

I can so relate. It's like losing apart of yourself for awhile. I could never understand why I the poems weren't instantly stuck in my mind and then it's like, back to the drawing board. Great write here!

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks for relating.

[Ana Papaya]

oh yeah, that sucks... I jot little notes on my phone or whole poems too. I have lost some of those thoughts.

[Lyn Anderson]

Ah, I am kind of over it. A lot of negative political stuff in those things I lost.:)

[Ana Papaya]

political stuff is good to lose. :)
(sometimes...)

[Tony Jordan]

Like lost orphans now deigned to wander the word limbo for eternity.
There's no redemption in this because it's an awful event so no levity will be forthcoming KL.
Sad
:(

[Lyn Anderson]

Maybe you will catch them in the ether. Creative soup and all that.

[Paul Bell]

It's times like that you wish you a photographic memory.

[Lyn Anderson]

Or at least the common sense not to press buttons prematurely.

[Paul Bell]

Most accidents can be avoided if hindsight is followed to the letter. lol

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

I keep all my poems in journals before I save them on the computer cause If I lost them it would be losing a big part of me.

[Lyn Anderson]

I rarely write on paper anymore. So. My fault.

[redzone]

ouch, sometimes words are like days there are no do overs or getting them back... and it is often frustrating when it happens especially when it comes to the words written for poetry... there are several books of really good poetry out there somewhere after escaping my pen or lost from computer crashes... I would have been famous KL, maybe even rich too... oh well...

with you though I think those words (rearranged perhaps) will find their way back to napkins, and phone... you are after all KL, enough said...

redzone

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. Ya, I feel like a goof. I just pressed WIPE -- didn't even think of it till the next day. Uggh.

[Einstein Noodle]

ohhhhh nooo! bummer my friend! :{ when i loose them i let it go ..as an act of God ..words only for the wind and angels eh!? :)
E.

[Lyn Anderson]

Ya well, Maybe for the best. A lot of hostile political cynicism in my latest writes.:)

[Einstein Noodle]

i am chuckling to myself about that dear Ms. Goode! plenty to go round these days eh!? but seriously ..to loose so many is not easy .. when MySpace went kookoo i lost many poems that i only had posted there :( stupid me right?! ah well live and learn .. big hugs and have a fine day my friend

[Lyn Anderson]

here's the thing that gets me. As I am in rant mode at the moment with the latest Golden Globe bla bla nonsense. I am not by any means a fan of the Hollywood elite using their muscle to protest in their hypocritical way -- YET! don't expect people to accept you are the president when you respond like a sucky seventh grader to any criticism or insult hurled your way. Stop bald-faced lying with your righteous cronies backing you every step of the way. Obama has more class in his PINKY than the current president elect has in his entire body. You want the world to look at you as presidential? ACT IT!!!! Neither Ronald Regan nor George Sr. or Jr. ever acted so unprofessionally or classless. Hell, Jesse Ventura sounds more sensible. No one in the greater world will respect or understand this man as long as he continues to act like a spoiled adolescent who just won a prize he wasn't expecting to win.

[Einstein Noodle]

i am just chuckling .... shaking my head ..dear friend...and walking away ;)))) we shall see hwo it all plays out..it shouldn't take but a year or two to know if they will all work together to improve the middle class especially .. common sense is not a 10 yr struggle through law school ..is it!? did i tell you that i just love you my friend! i hope that's OK
:)

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Yup I guess we have all done it with napkins, scraps of paper and our 'smarter than us' devices!
Well captured sentiments.

[Lyn Anderson]

yup. One swipe and it was all gone -- all my poems from the last month. ah well, I guess it was meant to be.