There Are No Hard Days Riding A Bicycle Across The US
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I've spent a great deal of time riding alone this last week. Many of the roads we have been on do not have a shoulder making it impossible to ride side by side. There have been so many hills I do...
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Categories:
myeloma, adventure, blessing, cancer, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
Flowers For Emma
...The nurseries wake within their field,
as the Liliums lift and liberate.
Rise oh children of heaven,
for Emma speaks to you of joy…
She dances with Daisies,
amidst the ...
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Categories:
myeloma, flower, heaven, mother,
Form: Free verse
Multiple Myeloma
...There was no NUANCE in the illness,
Once it took hold, it spread quickly;
The ATTEST taken was clear as glass,
Once diagnosed the results were sickly.
The BARREN truth was overwhelming,
The T...
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Categories:
myeloma, anxiety, cancer, emotions, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Sweet Soul Surrender
...Sweet Soul Surrender
She gazed beyond the windowsill where her oblivion stood an idol still
Sweet surrender her soul to spill tired trying to escape her innermost ill
Breath by brea...
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Categories:
myeloma, death, farewell, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Forever Fragile Flower
...Lay softly still my forever fragile flower
For the wind will swiftly surely come
And sway you back and forth on the hour
Before the coming calming summer sun
Your bashful beauty beguilingly bec...
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Categories:
myeloma, beautiful, beauty, flower, hero,
Form: Sonnet
A Road Called Miracle
...I travel down this difficult road,
Carring this heavy load.
Life's journey I once roamed,
Until I married and made a home,
I travel down this road,
Filled with lesions all over my bones.
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Categories:
myeloma, faith, health, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Words
...Words we didn't want to hear,
that would bring us so much fear...
Words we didn't understand,
that would bring us so many tears...
Words that would cause us so much pain,
and cause us to fal...
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Categories:
myeloma, faith, health, love,
Form: I do not know?