CANCER STOLE MY DAD
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Sitting by the window and reflecting, on one bitter cold day,
The sky cloudy, the weather report predicted snow,
The temperature outside 10 degrees, a little low,
33 years ago, it was a sad, ...
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Categories:
oncologist, death,
Form: Rhyme
Hindsight 20 20
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I was coming up on 60, when I found a lump in my left breast.
One day of anxiety turned into two weeks of tribulation
as I returned again and again to the hospital for tests.
At last, I got my v...
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Categories:
oncologist, cancer,
Form: Narrative
Fate - We Reconnected Too Late
...How sad!
How bad
I didn't know, I just found out
Your lovely daughter, she spat it out
Nine years had flown by
I did not know you were going to die
Even when we reconnected you were braver than...
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Categories:
oncologist, bereavement, courage, death of
Form: Rhyme
If I Had Divine Intervention, This Was It
...I do not know if I truly have ever been granted
divine intervention, but most likely I received it
after my surgery for breast cancer when a biopsy was done
to determine if I was “genetic” for my ...
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Categories:
oncologist, prayer,
Form: Narrative
The Goodness and Cruelty of Man Selma
...Again another MRI, the clacking sounds -- the injection of dye
It’s been awhile with covid on the rise
And vaccines found and given now inside and outdoors
The radiologist sent me to 7 pm and chan...
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Categories:
oncologist, history,
Form: Rhyme
Blessed Through Faith
...Around five years ago, I was hit with the news I had breast cancer. I kept waiting for news of this and that, and everytime I turned around, I would get more negative news. First, I had to wait to kn...
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Categories:
oncologist, faith,
Form: Haibun
Promises Uplifted
...beyond earnest vows
and doting promises
our love will last
forever and a day
yet all avid promises
are one day shattered
in spite of best intentions
sometimes I hear its thunder
it’s in th...
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Categories:
oncologist, cancer, death, health, longing,
Form: Free verse
The Day My Life Went Bizacko
...The day my life went bizacko,
I had me a brush with “big C”
“No biggie; just radiation,” they said,
“after lumpectomy.”
“No, wait,” said the surgeon,“Your cancer’s genetic!
Let’s have you do c...
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Categories:
oncologist, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Santa
...Dear Santa:
Although there are some things I'd really like
(a sauna or massage bed comes to mind)
and who'd not like a fun, fast pretty car?
But what I want is difficult to find!
I had it on...
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Categories:
oncologist, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Holy Spirit Moments
...I’ve never experienced hallelujah or come-to -Jesus moments
like I’m sure many religious folks do.
I’ve never spoken in tongues (nor would I want to).
I don’t believe I was ever moved much by the ...
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Categories:
oncologist, god,
Form: Prose
A Wild Rose
...This bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray stones of my spirit...
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Categories:
oncologist, death, memory, winter,
Form: Free verse
From Stage Three To Cancer Free
...When I was diagnosed last year with cancer of my breast
That was when my faith was really put to the test
For a while I just felt numb then reality kicked in
And the hardest trial I ever faced was...
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Categories:
oncologist, cancer, courage, hope, self,
Form: Bio
Gratitude 2015
...acrostic
2 Two family members died this past year.
0 Zero was the amount of my last raise.
1 One car needs new tires, the other new brakes.
5 Five trips to my oncologist since June.
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Categories:
oncologist, cancer, car, death, jobs,
Form: Acrostic
In Mammary Of: Maternal Bosoms
...breast cancer runs rampant within me late mother side
whar moost every female diagnosed with emotional ride
into the depths of despair where metastatic cells pried
their way into the appendages wh...
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Categories:
oncologist, absence, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Elegy
Living With Cancer
...I heard the word no woman wants to hear,
at the time a shock, a moment filled with fear,
fear of the unknown, the first thought of mortality,
after many years a change in my normality,
news to be...
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Categories:
oncologist, cancer, health,
Form: Rhyme
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