At dVerse Sarah is hosting Poetics with an invitation to write a poem about yellow.
dVerse Poets- Poetics – Everything Yellow
Image: texashistory.unt.edu
“despite the proliferation of online newspapers and news sources, something about printer’s ink on a piece of paper makes it worthy of keeping.” Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler
As Old Bones Who does that now? Placing an add in a newspaper? Hatched, Matched and despatched was the light-hearted riposte for classifieds celebrating significance, and there I was, searching an old photo album for those memories when a piece of yellowed newsprint fell out and fluttered to the floor. I gingerly picked it up as if it were likely to turn to dust, as old bones are wont to do, and held it with awe, for such things are surely treasures? Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
parallax 
Will people one day wish that their parents had Archives their emails and tweets?
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Well, that’s the thing about electronic communications. It’s all saved for us. We can attempt to block access (until someone just that much cleverer comes along) but we can neither erase nor lose it ~ our words today really are forever.
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But can the people who would like to recover it be able to or just them, whoever they are.
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Oh, I’m thinking at some point it’ll be the individual smartie pants leading us all back up out of the melted wiring with a healthier and zanier perspective. 🏞️
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Hmm, I’ll have what you’re smoking 🙂
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‘Ere… (No emoji available ~ there’s one for everything else ~ wazzup with THAT?)
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🚬 toke -n 🙂
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👌😆✨
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Whoever is clever
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The irony is, sometimes others can access it but not us 🙂
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That’s till things break back down a little. I never underestimate the power of a determined people’s hacker!
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Yes, I like that line people’s hacker, wonderful.
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No emoji for that one yet either ~ but I’ll lay ten to one there will be …
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I seriously doubt it. 😉
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I can’t even retrieve my old emails once they are deleted. Government might be able to do it but even they aren’t always successful. Just ask people who were interested in Hillary Clinton and/or Donald Trump’s emails.
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Heh heh . . .
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Yes, if they’re valuable enough others will try
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Too boring?
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Exactly. 🙂
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Well, for those not associated, I find old cuttings fascinating.
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😉
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Perhaps certain ones of consequence to the reader but otherwise not really Pat. Everything now is burn and dump.
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That yellow of old newspaper is so evocative. The contents seem so much more precious, it’s true.
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Thank you very much Sarah
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I have come upon old newspaper… and it is truly brittle and yellow
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Yes, all that acid paper oxidised now, finite, thank you Bjorn.
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In ancient China words written on paper were considered so sacred and powerful that all writing which has served its intended function was, by edict, collected and burnt every day.
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Amazing, I did not know that, thank you Ana
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Oh those yellowed newsprints .. yes I remember them so clearly! Gorgeously rendered, Paul 💖💛💖
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Thank you Sanaa, yes, so finite.
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Those yellowed newspaper clippings are indeed treasures.
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Well treasures for those of us who treasure them I guess.
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I come from a family of treasurers (of sentiment, not money).
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Lol, I laughed at the alternate, though I intuitively thought that wouldn’t be your meaning anyway.
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Still in small towns 😀
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Yes, same here 🙂
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I hope paper newspapers (vs online) don’t become a thing of the past, and the same goes for physical books. Yellowed paper, great poem as a take on the color yellow
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Thank you so much for that Christy, I agree too.
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It really is amazing how words on paper become treasures, just like photos. Well done, Paul.
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Yes, just like photos, many thanks Dwight
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Yes!
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It has been some time since I saw a yellowed print but it reminds me of old letters and cards. Love this unique take on the promt.
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Many thanks Grace, yes, newsprint is less and less now, and I guess no one keeps it now.
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There are still a lot of towns where, if we want to reach local audiences, we advertise in the newspaper.
Nobody uses, trusts, or likes Craiglist any more.
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I like that, same over here, rural towns have learned that real connection still works. Thank you for sharing.
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Indeed a treasure!
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Absolutely – many thanks 🙂
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Yes indeed – there is a beauty and simplicity lost – so well said
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