Cancer Haikus

Please, give me the 15 year old prespective of this issue. Tell me, in this limited context, should I have been more dramatic, or simply let the actions that occur speak for themselves? From the perspective of a POA it might be a different situation, you know. Please, enlighten me on what the experience of this is truly like. These all came from a dream. There are now 100 of them and this is only a sampling. But your input would be most helpful since it it plainly obvious that I haven't a clue as to what I am talking about.

There is absolutely not a single ounce of angst in these writings.

I agree with you, kiki.watch out for PAKI, though, as he doesn't take constructive criticism nearly as well as he likes to dish it out. As it stands, the guy's flaming me nonstop, gnawing on my leg like a rabid pit bull. He's sensitive about his poemes, be gentle with them.

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.