Lost works of art

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Roses are red I say phooey If I wanted popups I'd go back to Yuwie Having a case of deja vu here? That's because I posted that lovely work of art two days ago in a discussion talking about the ads that were popping up from the blue highlighted words on here. That discussion got deleted and I didn't want to lose the poem, silly as it is. And no, this discussion isn't about popups or deleted discussions. In college, I took a class about German culture in the first half of the 20th century. There was this painter, Franz Marc. I like his work very much. Sadly, he was killed in World War I. One of his most famous paintings, Tower of Blue Horses, went missing during World War II. Maybe it was destroyed. Maybe it was stolen and will eventually turn up. At least we still have photos of it: http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/franz-marc/the-tower-of-the-blue-hor.html I guess a lot of precious things have been lost over the years due to war, fire, etc. A friend of mine over on Yuwie recently had a house fire. He lost, among other things, photos of one of his ancestors that were taken with Abraham Lincoln. I wonder how many of us have lost something precious that we created. Could be a photo, a painting, a poem, a story, whatever. Does anybody have any stories? Which reminds me of an Ann Landers column I read some years back. Don't remember her exact words, but she basically said "those are just things. I recently lost my precious mother." Sometimes we are too obsessed about things, don't you think?