Theresa Pappas is the author of two poetry collections, The Desert Art (WordTech) and Flash Paper (New Rivers). She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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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.
Tinywords is a delight. Thank you!
Such a delicate and subtle haiku that plays with fear, desire, and hope. Lovely.
Eloquent and haunting.
Every now and then you will read a poem,
and your heart stops, your lungs no longer
work and you cannot breath.
My experience in reading this exactly. Thank you for saying it so well, both of you.
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
Striking.
"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.
Wow….. very powerful!
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
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.
Thank you all for your comments and blessings. The surgery did go well (years ago), and I'm still here.
beautifull haiku
best regards.