Welcome to Wandering Words...

    Wandering Words is your chance to “edit” any of these Kuypers poems. Below is a list of poems - when you select any poem, a new window will appear with the poem in the left panel. Every word (including any punctuation in the poem) will be listed in a separated “box.” You can then take any of the words from the original poem and literally move them to the right panel, to generate your version of the poem.
    Wandering Words is set up so that you can move the words, and they will automatically lock into a line in the right panel (so the words will line up evenly). Then you’ll see at the bottom of the panels a chance to change the title of the poem and a button to see your poem laid out as text.
    We now have a Flash^® version of Wandering Words available for only until 2020, so if you don’t have the latest version of Flash^® Player, you should get it (so that YOU can take your hand at Wandering Words)!

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Check out 2014-2017 Wandering Words haiku
& poems (through 10/17)!

Addiction	Ants and Crosses	barbed	bear
behind	Arsenic and Syphilis	blood	brain
brewery	can’t get you	bruised	cage
census	choice	choke	civil
clogged	coincidence?	console	close
control	defenses	destroy	cover
drowning	difference	don’t	earth
everyone	eminence	elusive	end
ends	enemies	energy	enemy
eventually	escape (2014)	errors	evil
essence	escape (2017)	easy	enjoy
existence	explosions	faith	feel
extend	exterior	extinct	fit
floor	falling	fog	force
forever	found haiku	found	form
fought	greatest	free	gone
ghosts	haiku (poet)	groove	guide
heaviness	imprisoned / ignorance	humans	hold
instead	John’s Mind	Jimbo	job
jobless	jumped (2014)	judge	keep
kindness	jumped (2017)	key	kill
knowing	knife (2017)	know	knees
life (2014)	Lucille Ann	labor	last
lost (2017)	love (true story haiku)	mirror	lost
misogyny	octopi and brains	mister	much
nightmares	octopi and dogs	oceans	need
opening	of his thirst	oil	only
ourselves	out there	organs	out
predator	pleading	pant	pet
predator	pleading	pant	pet
quarrel	Quoting Twitter with a Found Haiku	run	rush
scorches	relegated	rescue	sort
stagger	this is only a test	soul	sting
timing	translation (2014 haiku)	study	strike
unbounded	you were meant	uphill	unless
violation	upside-down	upturn	xeric
universe	Visakhapatnam	years	you

Check out 2013 & 2014 Wandering Words
(through January 2014)!

even if the pope claims it	explaining what condoms are for	Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds	knew what he was talking about
filed under fiction	Flying to China	Foreign Farmer	Just Cave In
Lawrencium	Objectifiable	Our Lady of Mercy	unclean left hands
shoe prints on the toilet seat	until the next truck comes	Oklahoma water-surfing	on Witnessing the Icy Graveyard

Over 50 poems have been added to Wandering Words
(through April 2013)...

Basic Investment Question	Before it Occurred to Me	Bimbo
Broke the Reflection	Building Houses out of Pallets	couldn’t
Dentist in Iraq	eight people outside	Envision It in the Night Sky
Even With no no Wish Bone	Ever Consumed Goat	Ever Expanding Spaces
Excuses to Ignore me	exposed ankles	found poem
found poem from a New Jersey mom	On a Downtown Chicago Light Pole	Zach Makes Me Think About These Things
Guantanamo Bay	Hunt the Game	Inches Above the Ground
Jaw Gets Sore	Jet Puffed	Just Making Face After Face
Just Saw a Circa	Koala Porn	Lost my Breath
mechanical soldiers	melted marshmallow	Moros y Cristianos
Mother’s Day 2012	My New Grocery List	Obama on the Subway
Occupy	Get His Product to Town	On This Ride
once i saw	Only Occasionally	Only Searching
Opening Our Own Doors	our lady of humility’s hypocrisy	Overweight Reasons
oxygen bars	Pork Skins	Poverty in America
Quenching Anybody’s Thirst	Ruminating	Skittery
Surviving the Apocalypse	Ugly babies need the most love	Vengeful Phone
Yeah, the Passion	You Can’t Tell	Goth Girl Photographer

 

...And over 55 poems were added in the second wave
(September 2010) of Wandering Words!

(And You Could Hold Me)	At the Camp	Bar Poem 20100421
Be Free of You	Became a Jungle	Bitter Suburbs
Build Your Own Cross	Carrying Me Through	Cast in Stone
Chicago	Dead Grass Fires	Drinking Their Life Away
Egg for a Week	Escape	Eternal Struggle
Evicted Today	Evil Floats	Exhaling
finding Faith in a Grocery Store	He Makes Me Think About These Things	Tumbling Diaper Seeks Fresh Baby
From Words to Wars	Fingers Black	How He Failed
I Think About These Things	Just Let It Glide Over Me	Keep Driving
Keep Me Sane	Labeled Me Agan	Like Cheesecake
Live in my Imagination	Marine Rifle Poem	Menu Poem
Money Became an Abstract	No Thank You	On Ashes
Opinions	Out of my Element	Painted Buddhas
Pinchy	Pock-marked Mole Hills	Prefer Things Soft
Rushed	Somewhere Else	Spent
Spit Me Out	Suicide (heat) Poem	Swallowing Sand and Pebbles
Teaches Our Childres	The Cycle of Life	Translation
For Better or for Worse	Where Does the Love Go	Witnessing Hitler’s Reign
Wondering Why	You Cannot Burn Me	You’ve Already Paid for This

 

You can also enjoy the classic Wandering Words poems:

 

A Diamond	I Want Love	Screaming
A Retired Policeman Talks About Suicides He’s Seen.	I Want More Than That	Seasons 1998
A Smile On My Face	I’m Always The One	See you Crawl
All Men Have Secrets	Infallible	Self-Confidence
an Innocent Glance	Jackson Square/Bourbon Street	Self-Destructive
Ants and Gods	Japanese Television	She Told Me Her Dreams 6
Any Help At All	Jonathan	Shiny New Again
Backbone Family Act	J’reviens	Signs of the Times
Because I Am Told	Knife (1986)	Sometimes the Light
Burn Through Me	Knife (1994)	Start All Over
Changing Garments	Knowing Kevorkian	Supposed To Be Done
Choices	Life	Tall Man
Civil War	Like Daggers	Terrorism Intelligence
Crush/But I Won’t	Looking Out For Number One	th
Cry To Be Held	Love Has Tendrils	The Deep End
Deity Discipline	Make Me	The Hammer Falls
Did You Know I Was Watching?	Make People Think	The House of the Forest
Didn’t Know What it Was	Mask	The Hunter and The Fox
Doctors, Breast Implants and Huge Pectoral Muscles	Masquerade	The Joshua Tree
Domestic Violence in America, Nashville Tennessee	Mean to Me	The Mind of John
Door Frame	Meant to Be	The Nightmare
Down the Drain	Monotony	The Power of the Devil
Driving Car Into Ditch	Moonlight	The Sky Is Always Blue
Each Morning	More Whiskey Sours	The Tears
Ending a Relationship (a haiku)	Morning Will Be Kind	The Things Warren Says
Especially at Breakfast	Mulberry Zoo	They Never Ask Me
Feel So Much	My	Too Much Light
Fighting I Can Do	My Blood	Trying
Finest Feeling	My Life Changing	Two Not Mute Haikus
Fire Alarms	Naivety	Two Years
Fit the Bill	Never Did The Same	Under the Sea
For Now I’ll Think	Nights	Understand
Forward	No Longer Pity You	Unscathed
From The Dead	Nothing Colorful In My Sight	Untitled
Genuinely Tired Of Looking	Now I’m Strong	Waiting For You
Gossip I	Odd How Things Turn Out That Way.	Walking With You
Gossip II	On the California Streets	Wanting You
Have A Party	Other Horizons	Watching You
Have To Ask	Our Anniversary	Ways to Spend your Money
He Told Me His Dreams 2	Overdoing It	Weeping Willow
He’s An Escapist	Paper	What Do You Do
Headache	Poker Face	What Have I Won
He’s Gone	Pop a Pill	When I am Weak
Here is Me	Present and Past	When You’re Gone
High Roller	Ragged Fucking Bastard	Who is at my Side
How I Imagine You	Rain	Who You Tell Your Dreams To
How to do the Impossible	Rape Education 2	Will Be Just Fine
I Cannot Love	Rape Education 3	With You
Ice Cream	Religion	Without You
I Knew I Had To	Right In Front Of Me	Wouldn’t Have To
I Must Believe	Ring	Y-Shaped Cigarette
	Saving Myself	You Will
	Saving Yourself	You're With Me