Trying to Talk About My Cancer
Trying To Write About MY Cancer
“Come back, in a few days”
William Epson
Leaves that ordinarily fall
in bunches of bright autumn hues
are falling to my surprise,
one grey leaf at a time for me.
A single leaf breaks off
at its stem to pause the season
allowing my elbow to bend and rake
my imagination for the color
each leaf was before it died
About this poem
I was diagnosed with colon cancer in late 2020 and have undergone colorectal surgery. I was cancer-free for 12 months but it showed up in my liver. Surgery again in Feb. 2023. I have a "Cancer Journal" but haven't been able or willing to write many poems about the disease I am "surviving". The submitted is an attempt to do so.
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Written on March 16, 2023
Submitted by connectallan on March 24, 2023
Modified on April 20, 2023
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| Scheme | A XB XXXXXBXAX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 456 |
| Words | 75 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 9 |
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