Spring Cancer Poems

nurses come to top off my cup,

the coffee and poison mingle

in the air and on my tongue,

she draws the curtain,

moans next door persist,

snow falls outside...

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The Angel of Death skims blacker than tar
A skeletal knock overturning a bowl of oats
Smelling of frankincense and ashes
To carry you to a yellow field...

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Aunt June

My aunt taught me... 
how to be; a sewer, a grower, 
a knower of "things" important. 
She taught me to watch the pot, 
until...

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Broken Glass 

Bits of color...
washed up on the beach. 
Items that tell stories, 
about faraway places, 
new people, and old. 

Red like roses, fine wine...

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(written for one who lost)

We lose a daughter, then we lose another,
yet find much sympathy that comes from all;
and know such sympathy will reach a...

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This “thing” wears many unlicensed costumes:  

         Life force,  Vital breath,  Cosmic energy
 ...

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beautiful spring day
she brought me forget me nots
her last gift to me

a day where we laughed
reliving happy stories
ignoring cancer...

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A tree after the fall or in winter,
Is not what it was, but a mere splinter. 
Glory stripped naked of it’s cov’ring leaves. 
Looks like...

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Blood Colors and Tears

Red roses in the dead of winter. 
Hard to find, 
a costly extravagance. 

Cancer…

Changes the price of the moment, 
and the very...

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There is a small flower, 
that often grows everywhere. 
It is tiny and hard to see. 
Often, considered or thought,
a 
weed.

Yet...

This little, 
special and unique
flower,
came...

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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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Autumnal hint faintly tinges air 
finding this mortal 
     bewitched by blare 
ring refulgent radiance, 

     ...

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We seemingly walk beside
The broken mouse's 
Who wage a war
In glass filled houses 
With rose tinted windows 
Where death resides 
By and By
Empty Souls 
And...

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You’re the breeze that  l i n g e r s  beyond compare,
my GUARDIAN SPIRIT I can reach through deep prayer.
When the dusk...

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Every where we looked we seen your smile
You have  left so very many of them as reminders
Reminding us to be joyful
Reminding us how much...

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