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My Tumor and I

a tear in each eye surviving the bad hair days my tumor and I both shrink from radiation the treatments tear us apart April 12, 2023 Constance La France Writing Challenge "T" Words This is a tanka which uses the prompt word tear two times.

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Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 4/17/2023 11:02:00 AM

- Congratulations on your win ... a poem with few words that says a lot ... great written, R.A.P. :) - hugs

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 4/16/2023 12:53:00 PM

Congratulations on your win. A lovely Tanka write. Have a blessed day/week..................

Constance La France

Date: 4/15/2023 2:41:00 PM

Reason, thank you for sharing your emotional poem with us in my Writing Challenge congratulations !

Reason A. Poteet
Date: 4/15/2023 4:38:00 PM

not personal with me, but my husband just started this week oral chemo for a blood plasma cancer. I appreciate your challenges and they keep me writing as much as I can these days. Thank you, Constance, for being yourself. You are blessed.

Frederic Parker

Date: 4/15/2023 9:28:00 AM

such a descriptive poem with so few words...really well done...congratulation

Linda Alice Fowler

Date: 4/15/2023 8:26:00 AM

Powerful words Reason. Congratulations on your win! :)