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The Monster Who Ate Her Chest

she opened her gown to show me a flaming scar something was missing... the knife should have cut deeper disease still raged underneath a young life wasted back in nineteen fifty five a mother and wife whose white skin turned yellow from the monster who ate her chest

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Skat A

Date: 11/7/2013 10:31:00 PM

this is very Tim, one of the most impressive wins on the PINKTOBER list................ SKAT

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 11/6/2013 1:58:00 PM

Hello PINKTOBER, winning poet --- TIM --- Thank you for embracing my contest with your poem. I took my time on this particular contest, many heartfelt poems:-(... If you'd like:) stop by my latest blog "Hold My Pen While I Write." In there you will find my very own PinkTober invitation. Take Care & have yourself an awesome day... xox~ LINDA

Abdulhafeez Oyewole

Date: 5/18/2013 9:51:00 AM

Tragic tanka and uniquely done. Congrats on your win Tim. AO

Carrie Richards

Date: 5/17/2013 8:35:00 AM

This breaks my heart Tim.....but so raw and real and should have been on the top of the list for the emotions expressed. (My mother too, died very young from pancreatic cancer....a different kind perhaps, but the pain was the same.....so I feel your poem deeply.

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 5/17/2013 7:31:00 AM

Sad and moving, congratulations on your win.

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 5/16/2013 10:11:00 PM

CONGRATULATIONS, TIM! Thank you for the nice and wonderful heartfelt poem about mom's. ~LOVE~ Linda

Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 6/19/2012 6:39:00 AM

Congratulations on your super win in Joann's "Contankacerous" contest Tim. Love, Carol

Elliott Bowe The Drunken Poet

Date: 6/18/2012 6:42:00 PM

Congratulations on your win!!!! GREAT WRITE!!!

Carrie Richards

Date: 6/18/2012 2:44:00 PM

So moving is this one...for it reads as a personal story that one would never forget. I have been there with you ....only for me it was 1964.......that I saw a young life wasted...just as you did.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 6/14/2012 8:00:00 AM

wow, I really like this one, Tim. WHen did I HIT you??hahahah. I must have been having fun. Let me know which poem!