Summer Cancer Poems

I pop a little white moon from the packet of fifty
as pain's tidal wave pulls at the shoreline of me and springs
a summer of shocks,...

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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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A blowing wind spins up from the still and serene
Late at night a summer heat
When the sun’s not there to instigate

Knocks upon the old forest...

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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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a few years ago, my brother was visiting me - we don’t live in the same country, so we don't see each other very often....

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Home for now!

The coffee is cold, 
even though I used the
microwave. 
Funny. 
I was around 
when the first one
was sold. 
We were so amazed!
Magic in...

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Yarn 

Lovely…
soft material, 
skeins, in colors…
of every hue.

Beauty captured…
in both fine, 
and rough textures. 
The possibilities…
the dreams;
held tightly, 
in simple paper strips.
Wrappers showing…
measured weights,
and lengths
displayed.
The...

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Gemini met Cancer on a summer day
She quite frankly took his breath away
He thought things were done in male or pink
She showed him another way...

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In the capital of Norway, Oslo, lies a public park called Frognerparken. In the park lies the Vigeland installation. It features 212 bronze and granite...

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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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Child lying
In a deep pallor
Looking out of a balcony
The last greeting
To island nature

Sunset is preparing
To surrender to the darkness
The gloomy and regal laurel
And the flight...

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__Your Name__

In the verdant macrocosm of summertide
Leaves on the merry boughs palpitate hearing your golden name. 
The unremetting gush of Nyera-Ama river
Hasten in glee resonating...

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Smiling sun bring your joy upon my eye
Brilliant bright rays gather all I will try
Body brown absorb precious vitamin D
Body beautiful brown No eyes on...

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A horrible disease that seems to affect one and all.
 We all know someone who’s succumbed to its fall,
 for there are no limits to...

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Broken Tree

As i lay here on my sick bed, here within my room,
There’s a window that lets in the light to break up all the...

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