Wednesday Poetry – Cancer’s Vacation

Posted on 03/30/2016 by Andrew Reynolds

Cancer’s Vacation

Where would cancer go for a vacation?
Would it fly to Hawaii and stroll on the beach?
Would it send me a post card
or bring me back a t-shirt?

While it was gone,
would I feel better,
be free of care
and able to do all I did before?

Could I buy it a ticket for a three-week cruise,
or a weekend getaway?

Or could I just send it to the movies
for a couple of hours of respite
from the worry,
from the pain,
from the anger,
from the fear?

I haven’t been in the workshop this week.  There is a new project I’ll post about next week along with updates on my current work.

Until then I’ll leave you with a poem from my cancer poetry collection.  And yes, I finished editing the poem I mention in my last post.  More on that this Sunday.

If you need me – I’ll be in the shop

Andrew

About Andrew Reynolds

Born in California Did the school thing studying electronics, computers, release engineering and literary criticism. I worked in the high tech world doing software release engineering and am now retired. Then I got prostate cancer. Now I am a blogger and work in my wood shop doing scroll saw work and marquetry.
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19 Responses to Wednesday Poetry – Cancer’s Vacation

  1. George says:
    03/31/2016 at 6:07 pm

    We can all chip in and buy it a one way ticket to oblivion and that still wouldn’t be far enough away.

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  2. marymtf says:
    03/31/2016 at 4:25 pm

    It’s obviously not cancer that deserves the vocation, Andrew.

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  3. inesephoto says:
    03/31/2016 at 3:56 pm

    My friend had her last radiotherapy today!
    Cancer can jump in the lake.

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  4. morristownmemos by Ronnie Hammer says:
    03/31/2016 at 8:04 am

    Put it on a barge down the Nile, where it will be killed by a tribe of fierce humanists.

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  5. Claire Marie O'Brien says:
    03/30/2016 at 11:47 pm

    I love this poem, Andrew.

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  6. Texas Quilting says:
    03/30/2016 at 5:16 pm

    Where indeed? It makes its presence from hiding in the first place, so would it go somewhere really public or continue its quiet journey until no one could hide from it?

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  7. Jacqui Murray says:
    03/30/2016 at 8:16 am

    You read my mind–I was wondering if you finished the poem you were struggling with. This one is wonderful. Unique and hopeful.

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  8. Chris White says:
    03/30/2016 at 7:57 am

    Yes, a one-way-ticket would be nice.

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  9. lorieb says:
    03/30/2016 at 7:10 am

    wherever it goes, hopefully it is a permanent vacation and forgets to come back!

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