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kaile
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0 posted 2000-06-16 12:53 PM


a different take on vacation

Rays shine on my bed~
I feel intense excitement~
Holidays Have Come!
Yet homework tons mock at me~
Such a chore i have to bear!

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deleeme
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1 posted 2000-06-16 03:49 AM


Kaile,
  It sounds like your teachers don't believe in vacations,holidays or time off for good behavior or simply R&R.  Why do some give you something to remember them by at the most inopportune times?
Sorry it didn't work out as good as it could have,but thanks for sharing this with & for us.    David

Dennis L. White
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2 posted 2000-06-16 06:31 AM


Kaile,
  This ain't no vacation and it ain't no picnic! YIKES! Thanks for thinking of us when you wrote it, LOL  Dennis :^)



 Moonbeams radiate
When the veiling cloud has past
Playful shadows dance

Dennis L. White :^)

Yu Lan
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3 posted 2000-06-16 10:36 PM


lol.. this is great!! sheesh, umm.. some vacation! I've had more than a few like that..

Lynne

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4 posted 2000-06-17 09:23 PM




Cute tanka, tankas can be difficult to write, and yours is great with a twist of humour in it, talk about cruel teachers!  

Take care,
Melissa Honeybee

kaile
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5 posted 2000-12-04 02:24 AM


thank you everyone for replying...now my feelings regarding this vacation

Vacation Musing

A Herculean attempt
to contact you,
you finally responded,
profuse apologises offered
but that "you have been busy"

You went on to gush about
your schedule-packed holidays
You marvelled at the
fulfilling new experiences you had

Dont mistake me,
im glad you're having fun

Just that
i cant help feeling
a wee insecure here

Does that mean
my life is less worthwhile,
less meaningful than yours
since i spend
most of the vacation
bumming around?

Darn, i feel so useless

INclan
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6 posted 2000-12-04 07:15 AM


Kaile,

Good Tanka...been there, done that!  Now that I am out of school, I still have homework; it is mending fences, tending dogs, painting, wallpapering, taxi service for children.....you get the idea.  There are days when I wish all I had to do was study.

INclan

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7 posted 2000-12-08 03:16 PM


nice job on this one


I was born myself, raised myself, and will continue to be myself. The world will just have to adjust.

I hate your socks. I'd like to burn them!


Suzanne Arlene
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8 posted 2000-12-08 09:50 PM


There just is never enough time to do the things we want to  .Life can suck sometimes
and i don't remember my last vacation.

Mon Cherie
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9 posted 2001-12-05 03:06 AM


About ur vacation tanka, heh... i think it's interesting the way you took a boring chore, and made it into a poem.

The 2nd post, WEll, I don't think you should be made to feel any less worthy coz of the way you spend your days. But I'm glad you've looked on the positive side, and decided to do more exciting stuff with your life...  

_,,,^.^,,,_
Florence

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