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Haiku Prompt: How I Spent My Day

Posted by lenleatherwood on

Eight hours of work
Helping with research papers
One day of many

What connects Huck Finn
With Morrison’s Beloved
And Black Boy, as well?

Shared traits of heroes
Of Hemingway, Crane, Heller
Or anti-hero?

Tom Sawyer and Huck
Just boys on an adventure
Or symbols of hope?

Our founding fathers
White, self-serving elitists?
Why did they stay rich?

Most papers not done
Another day of working
To discern answers

This part of my work
Learning this information
Makes life much richer

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Published by lenleatherwood

I am a native Texan who has lived for the past 30 years in Southern California. I am a published author of both short memoir and fiction, a two-time Pushcart nominee, a nationally award-winning writing coach, an editor, as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Texas. In addition, I am the mother of three grown daughters of whom I am extremely proud, a grandmother of four darling children and the wife of a man I still love after 44 years.

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  1. Let's CUT the Crap!'s avatar Let's CUT the Crap! says:
    April 5, 2012 at 5:50 pm

    I can’t get over how much information you get into such thimble-sized lines. Amazing.

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    1. lenleatherwood's avatar lenleatherwood says:
      April 5, 2012 at 10:26 pm

      Thanks, Tess. I hadn’t thought of it that way, but I appreciate it!

      Reply

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