Oh Theresa, thank you for sharing this most powerful and uplifting haiku!
For me, poetry and medicine are both expressions of spirituality, manifesting concretely the human desire to live, to transcend nature's "given", to refashion reality as meaning-ful.
You have literally bared your breast in this poem, defying illness with an emphatic affirmation for life! And in this work, whatever the outcome of that operation, you have actually triumphed over disease, you have overcome mortality!
Perfect!!!! If a picture is worth a thousand words, this haiku of tiny powerful and thought provoking words, is worth a million
I hope the surgery went well and you have a quick recovery.
August 5th, 2013 at 8:42 am
Tinywords is a delight. Thank you!
August 5th, 2013 at 8:44 am
Such a delicate and subtle haiku that plays with fear, desire, and hope. Lovely.
August 5th, 2013 at 8:55 am
Eloquent and haunting.
August 5th, 2013 at 9:07 am
Every now and then you will read a poem,
and your heart stops, your lungs no longer
work and you cannot breath.
August 5th, 2013 at 2:18 pm
My experience in reading this exactly. Thank you for saying it so well, both of you.
August 5th, 2013 at 9:19 am
We hear about so many mistakes about labelling which part to operate on, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that yes means yes.
I like unresolved haiku as life isn't always neatly resolved, so why should a poem tell us everything.
A good contemporary haiku.
Alan, With Words
August 5th, 2013 at 10:01 am
Striking.
August 5th, 2013 at 11:29 am
"Yes" is the one-word poem we recite with our every breath, with every beat of our heart.
In this haiku, the nurse's "yes"–a medical precaution–transforms into the patient's "yes"–a bold affirmation of life in the face of death.
Pure poetic alchemy.
August 5th, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Wow….. very powerful!
August 5th, 2013 at 8:02 pm
Oh Theresa, thank you for sharing this most powerful and uplifting haiku!
For me, poetry and medicine are both expressions of spirituality, manifesting concretely the human desire to live, to transcend nature's "given", to refashion reality as meaning-ful.
You have literally bared your breast in this poem, defying illness with an emphatic affirmation for life! And in this work, whatever the outcome of that operation, you have actually triumphed over disease, you have overcome mortality!
Blessings to you!
Strider
August 5th, 2013 at 9:46 pm
Perfect!!!! If a picture is worth a thousand words, this haiku of tiny powerful and thought provoking words, is worth a million
I hope the surgery went well and you have a quick recovery.
August 6th, 2013 at 10:51 am
Thank you all for your comments and blessings. The surgery did go well (years ago), and I'm still here.
September 30th, 2013 at 3:21 am
beautifull haiku
best regards.