Ballad Cancer Poems

Banalata sen
For a thousand years, I am a traveler on this earth, a nomadic soul
From the Singhal sea to the darker shades that knew the...

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Warm my heart touch the sky
Sail beneath these stars by and by
Winds carry my spirit see
Shaped clouded memory 

Sail unplanted sextant
Steer from journey’s door
Upon a...

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She now sits awaiting the gates
Standing in a heavenly state

He robeless gown woven of air and mist
And her body made new every inch

The lofty welcome...

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In slower pace older men walk and bend,
some hung their heads and limp with age,
their drooping shoulders unable to stand,
Greater demands of a new climate...

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SURSUM CORDA 

(for Ruth and Clement Mc Cormack, 
Bridgton, Maine)

“Come see us, we’ll talk about the job."

you were convalescent, generous, 
and anxious to get your...

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with Huzzah, but stood mute in proximity 
when ye didst call
in kitchen of century old stone 
mansion built and hall 

ways echo wing the absence...

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"A treason of the heart"

"The news came violently like a bullet to the chest, Who do I call, what do I do?
When only my mother...

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My Life,
My Death, 
My Confusion,
My Clarity,
My Peace,
My Anger,
My Passion,
My Break,
My Pain,
My Healing,
My Smile,
My Frown,
My Nothing,
My Everything, 
My Healing,
My Poison, 
My Silence,
My Song,
My Strength, 
My Weakness,
My...

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Sweat broke my line of vision,
I couldn't see clearly, these demons were coming down hard,
Each blow shattering the little resistance I held onto,
Mercy wasn't a...

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this emptiness
this nothing
finally - we are

face-to-face
time against time

I am only a human
simpler than one instant

of the fragile flesh
of the roaming mind

a walking dead...

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I never thought i could feel so alone.
I thought you would always be with me.
Apparently i was wrong,
You left me here alone and tired,
why can’t...

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Greed is greed
Is greed in greed?
No greed no grade?
Greed of grade
Is grade is a greed?
Real greed is greed.
Greed is danger.
A danger is greed.
Greed oh greed
Stop...

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Only the Beginning 

Do not weep for me
For now it is heaven I see
Glorious fields of green 
And oceans blue
Twinkling stars in the sky
On angels’...

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Over a hundred years ago in the bush of west Queensland 
the cure all for everything was,
 a mixture of axle grease blue stone and...

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I have brothers and sisters
Not by blood, by an unspoken bond
Some wear leather some wear lace
We all ride our bikes to and fro

We are a...

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