Forget-Me-Not For Rico Leffanta
Poets love defines as does your photography
Screening feme fatal like it's a mammography
Blissful images erected
Virility unaffected
Observing what nature offers in demography
Hang loose Rico!
Mahalo
She has breast cancer, malignant tumor
Time passes, a waiting game
Routine mammography
A filter of frustration and sadness
Death can not be overcome
Grief is the price of love
The moment of freedom, the mask falls off
Show yourself as a true friend
"We'll do this together"
12-07-2018
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My biggest challenge of my life
occurred in 1998 a year of strife,
routine mammography displayed a buckshot
spray of calcification which displayed a lot
of cancer within its maudlin picture show,
removal of my right breast proved to be a torturous blow.
It turned out to be a Trans-flap operation in which
a surgeon did a miraclous and incredible switch,
I ended up wearing part of my stomach as a new chest.
February 28, 2017. 73 words.
A physical, some lumps, mammography, biopsies
Chemo, radiation, surgery, side effects
Near the edge, the strength, the will, sprouting back to life
The scars, a gift, a miracle, a testimony, reflects
Njeri Hunjeri
Sponsor Name Poet Destroyer A
Contest Name PINKTOBER #2
One suffers from cancer but given a negative result
Or medical team treating fails to a make a diagnosis
Giving open ground to cancer to grow
One suffers from cancer and given a positive result
Either one was late to see the doctor or a wrong one
Giving open ground to cancer to grow.
Physicians specializing mammography, err about 3%
But other physicians failed to identify 71 %
Giving open ground to cancer to grow.
Sometimes doctors are careless and negligent
Sometimes the patients are so
Giving open ground to go to God.
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Dr. Ram Mehta
Fifth Place Win
Contest: Pinkctober by P.D.
* I dedicate this poem to persons suffering from Breast Cancer presently.
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