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Fragmented Thoughts about Graduate School (haiku)

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Submitted by jrlewis on Tue, 09/18/2012 - 9:22am

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My Iowa and Amherst

Master of Fine Arts

...

Starving

My life must feed my

Poetry insistently

Not sustainable

...

Way A Way

Yellow jacket nest

Grows in my engine while I

Live in Iowa

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lurking

Submitted by Sarah Cunningham on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 7:00pm.

lurking on line, I

curious interloper

myself, read your lines

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Reading Isn't Interloping

Submitted by jrlewis on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 6:49am.

How is blogging not

like publishing? Pushing a piece

apart from yourself.

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nourishment

Submitted by interloper (guest) on Wed, 09/19/2012 - 12:35pm.

The hungry writer
focused on a meal once had
risks missing dinner

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Interloper

Submitted by jrlewis on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 2:46pm.

Oh my Serendip

Stalker let me welcome you

To society!

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but what about my poem?

Submitted by interloper (guest) on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 8:30pm.

I've read your posts, true,
but you do know me well too.
You loaned me your car.

I appreciate
the welcome you've given me......
to society?

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Leaching

Submitted by jrlewis on Sun, 09/23/2012 - 1:08pm.

The Society of

Students, grand-students, teachers

Everybody

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strictly speaking

Submitted by interloper (guest) on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 8:00am.

Hacking haiku with
Minimal syllables is
Messing my message

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Burnt Out

Submitted by jrlewis on Wed, 09/26/2012 - 4:59pm.

Perhaps haiku are

Not the best habitat for

Our words anymore?

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last haiku for now?

Submitted by interloper on Wed, 09/26/2012 - 10:23pm.

five seven and five

I took the three word challenge

though not meant for me

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Ever After

Submitted by jrlewis on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 10:38am.

Where will you go from here?  Is there another form you are curious about?  Will you go formless for a while?  What about your recent publications?  Is there somewhere to look for your writing now???

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Click Here.

Submitted by interloper on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 9:36pm.

Click here.

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Where to now, computer? (Adventures with ADD)

Submitted by interloper on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 8:47pm.
I woke up today, a thought in my head,
what I might do,
once I get out of bed.
I decided to plan to come up with a plan
to find a direction, 
be purposeful, Man.
Drinking my coffee I pondered the world,
philosophy, science,
a beautiful girl.
Getting to work, deadlines to beat,
lost in designs,
forgetting to eat.
Five o'clock tired, dopamine's weak.
Coffee, wellbutrin,
friends I go seek.
Errands, chores,
cook up some rice.
Remembering back when I used to feel nice.
Then I remembered
my daybreak idea,
my groggy ambition without any fear.
..............................
The day had its own plan
I barely could follow,
so I'll plan on planning a new plan tomorrow...
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tearning

Submitted by interloper (guest) on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 7:58am.

You write words, you teach
I listen, learn lessons, like
To teach teacher too

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Here

Submitted by jrlewis on Wed, 09/26/2012 - 5:01pm.

Tearning, leaching with

Others in conversation

Is education.

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Beautiful!  Both of them.

Submitted by Nan on Tue, 09/18/2012 - 10:06am.

Beautiful!  Both of them.

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