I remember writing my first Haiku in the 2nd or 3rd grade. My teacher liked it enough to enter it into a children's poetry competition. I didn't win.
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Cancer clammers in
Burning like betrayal
Soul survives, barely.
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Estrogen parade
Fuels the beast within
Tamoxifen blocks.
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Call brings cold despair
Haphazard terror reigns
Cue the crying game.
Feel free to try your hand at one of your own and post it here! I'd love to read it, and I'm sure others would too.
Hi Renn - I enjoyed these and particularly love that the word Tamoxifen has now been used in a haiku!!
ReplyDeleteAm not feeling very inspired, but will contribute a haiku I wrote at school that I thought terribly witty at the time:
Expressing a thought
In seventeen syllables
Is very diffic
Cheers
Liz
Liz,
ReplyDeleteThat's a great haiku! Has plenty of school-like charm. Thanks for sharing.
Renn, fabulous "rennditions" of this ancient Japanese art. Love them!
ReplyDeleteI wrote two haiku on my day 6 blog post. The second ends with "limping for the cure."
Jan
Hi Renn,
ReplyDeleteHaiku is what got me through the most terrifying moments of breast cancer treatment and the aftermath. Rather than journal, which was too tiring during chemo, I decided to stick to the minimalist discipline of haiku. May 19 marked four years since the diagnosis, I have a full head of hair, and so far so good!!! Here's my most recent haiku, written while I was anxiously awaiting the results of a bone scan. Onward, Sue
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child of the sixties
cancer is my viet cong
furtive, treacherous
master of disguise
now you see it, now you don’t
invisible, stealth
ever vigilant
continually dodging
hostile sniper fire
I am, forever, a
conscientious objector
tour of duty done
@Sue: That is a fantastic haiku! And how cool that you used haiku as your vehicle of choice to get through chemo. Congrats on 4 years post diagnosis. PS I hope the scan was clear. Thanks for dropping by!
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