​RECONSTRUCTING MY POETRY COLLECTION

My computer crashed, June 2017.  I lost all my poems written after 1st June 2014.  It was devastating!  I had not printed my poems in three years, so all was lost. 
I personally nearly lost it completely, because many of my work files were also crashed… lost my most recent self-editing on my book with only 36 pages to go before sending to publishers and so much more!

But then a miracle started to happen as far as my poetry collection goes
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• Some poems saved to poetry sites were rescued.
• Friends I had sent poems to since June 14 sent copies back to me.
• And not so long ago this year (2018), by some miracle, I found a flash disc with all my poems up to the 15 November 2016 on it.
• On the 29 August 2018 (Yesterday), I started to put it all together… reconstructing my poetry collection and made backups.  I printed out every poem that had not been printed out yet and now I will need to cut out and glue every one of them into a book and index them at the back of the book.  I feel so much better now that they are printed.  I still have over 1000 of my poems saved.
• I was only able to find three 2017 poems, so my 2017 collection is for now, mostly lost.  I think I wrote very little last year though, so hopefully I haven’t lost anything important from then.  I am hoping that I will still find more 2017 poems in drawers, etc. that I might have printed along the way. I might also find some 2017 poems on my blog.  It’s just the job of going through all the posts to find them.  Time is needed! 

Thank you to my friends and my Father God, for all that is rescued so far.  I am very grateful.
 
~ Panayiota