John Harms' Poetry: 1998-1999
(not for print)

Most poetry created for creative writing classes aren't just submitted hand-written on scratch paper.
Most of this poetry has gone through many analytic processes and revisions to become what you
see here today. Professors and students read the poetry and give suggestions for improvement.
It is up to me, the author, to decide what to change and what to leave alone. This is why poetry
can be complex. But, poetry can also come naturally. There are a few poems that I wrote and
never revised; they were satisfying to me in their original format.

English 294 (first creative writing course at CMU)

Final Portfolio Introduction
Basically some background info for the professor & readers of the portfolio...

Final Portfolio Opening Poem
I wrote this poem as part of my portfolio introduction: semi-cheesy.

A Table of Memories
Sitting at a coffeeshop at CMU, revisiting memories...

Hate
In Memory Of Matthew Shepard (1976 - 1998)
Former University of Wyoming student
Died on October 12, 1998, as a result of being brutally beaten because he was gay.

Independence
A childhood memory--relation exercise poem...

It Speaks Its Unspoken Fable
A poem from an observation exercise...

Too Many Stories to Tell
A poem from another observation exercise...

My Own Empire
From another exercise on childhood memory...

The Wolf in my Life
This is a poem from an exercise to put my own story in to an existing fable...

The Abused
Yet another poem from an exercise - read it and figure it out...

Hope for Communication and the Required Instrument of Evil
I wrote this while trying to call somebody...

English 392 (second creative writing course at CMU)

Final Portfolio Cover (image)

Final Portfolio Introduction
The (required) self-evaluation for my final portfolio...

the life

did I miss anything?