Life! What approbations to recall?
A solace that never was – Utopia
Should such love get forgiveness?
The seminal seeds of such a cast…
Claims of the spurious narcissistic
Ah! Words, rescind not a sarcoma
lying brashly, filling its poison vial
long swallowed - bona fide denial!
(1/10/2021)
Nearing their curtain’s final fall, they fly
as the geese and monarchs; to warmth they hie
To hobble where once trees stood: golf courses,
smoothed for their lazy electric horses…
Chilled hearts and aching bones pay for the sun
Fenced off for their guarded and landscaped fun
For barely a stone-throw away, poor shakes,
Ripple the divide, hazing man-made lakes…
There they sweat through long sartorial jokes
fearing beams may strike a cancerous stroke
Whites and pastels their preferred uniform
Clearly labeled for their clubs’ garish norm…
Cloistered, they are already neatly packed
Boxed close for flames: coffins securely-stacked.
(3/5/18: ’06 Formula 37PC i/ii DMS)
Categories:
sarcoma, allusion,
Form: Lyric
I watch as she grows weaker and it breaks my heart in two
To see her in such pain I wonder just how long she will be with us
until it is time for her to see our sweet sweet mom again.
I know mom is anxiously waiting and I can almost see her smile
as Carol once again embraces her as Carol walks that one last mile.
I know that i will never again be happy once they have laid her in her grave
but for now i, m trying for her sake to be beside her and like her be brave
but each night my heart is breaking and there are so many tears that i, ll cry
I don't want to tell my beautiful sister that final sad heartbreaking goodbye.
Carol when you get to heaven and you see mom, s sweet face please give her a big kiss for me as im left in this lonely place
I look forward to the time when we all will meet again
never more to part i know you and mom will welcome us in
i wrote this on may of 2005 that is when we lost our oldest sister Carol to a rare sarcoma cancer miss her everyday
Debbie Lynne Sparrow
Categories:
sarcoma, bereavement, cancer, how i
Form: Rhyme
Richard Whitehead is really a marathon runner,
But when he wanted to compete in the stunner,
In the London Marathon in 2012, he found battle,
So had to turn to para sprinting with his bottle.
So in the Paralympics of London city in 2012,
He ran in the T42 category, the 200m stealth,
When he seemed behind until the very end,
Until he won in 24.38secs round the bend.
In his earlier career he competed at the 2006,
Winter Paralympics in Turin when he did mix,
With the ice sledge hockey players dexterous,
Without his prosthetics, and he was ambitious.
Whitehead is the first ever appointed patron,
Of Sarcoma UK, for bone and tissue action;
He looks after PE in the borough of Gedling,
And hopes to run Britain’s length, for his bing.
Categories:
sarcoma, body, celebrity, courage, health,
Form: Heroic Couplet
A fight between life and death;
Each day could be the last in the fight against the disease.
Carcinoma,Leukemia,Sarcoma; The three of Many classifications of the disease, and
The signs don’t always appear soon enough.
Each day could be the last in the fight against the disease.
The Three Cases: die in a blink of an eye, slowly die, or beat the disease;
The signs don’t always appear soon enough.
The feeling of slipping away each day even more than yesterday.
The Three Cases: die in a blink of an eye, slowly die, or beat the disease.
The wish to beat the disease, and
The feeling of slipping away each day even more than yesterday.
The wait for the results; Is it gone or here to stay? Is this the last day?
The wish to beat the disease,
Carcinoma,Leukemia,Sarcoma; The three of Many classifications of the Disease.
The wait for the results; Is it gone or here to stay? Is this the last day?
A fight between life and death...
Categories:
sarcoma, cancer, life, pain, stress,
Form: Pantoum
Anorexia, weight loss, fever
Frail frame of weakness shiver
With collapse of castle of immunity
Opportunistic infections eager
TO prey on the victim
Whose eyes in deep socket gleam
Kaposis Sarcoma, trauma, coma
Human Immuno Virus' melodrama
Call it the battle in the bloodstream
Plethora of symptoms ranging from
Candidiasis to Herpes simplex
Which render the phenomenon complex
Elisa Western blot and CD4 Count
Diagnosis extorts substantial amount
AIDS Patients deserve top priority in
medicare for their suffering and agony are rarest rare
Posterity will not forgive us
If in handling AIDS we sound frivolous
Categories:
sarcoma, caregiving, inspirational, introspection, ,
Form: Free verse