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Cancer Haikus (Free verse) by poetandknowit

#20 i asked you to fight until i learned to pronounce the thing killing you #26 if these cells knew you would they keep pushing forward or apologize #31 four in the morning i miss the hospital food and the nurse's smile #40 morphine takes your pain so much left to say to you please, do not go yet #50 sometime in the night just as i walked through the door the embalmer called

poetandknowit

13-Nov-02/7:54 AM

I absolutely disagree. A poet should try to tackle and make sense of everything within their scope of experience, no matter what emotion is involved. Read Sharon Old's "The Father" or David Ray's "Sam's Book". How would the Jews have made any sense of the Holocaust had they not sat down with pen and paper? Using the haiku in this sense was a way to simplify the emotion as it was being experienced. Thus, it would limit any form of emotional rambling and still help me to figure things out while experiencing emotion that would steer longer poetry straight into sentiment. Thus, working in the haiku I had to think in a limited format and that thinking stunted much of the sentiment, while keeping any emotion on a bare bones level.

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