POEM STARTER
Write a series of five Haikus that span five years of time following an important event.
Try to show how emotions or opinions change over time with each poem.
5 Years
Year 1:
It’s leukemia.
Chemo, arsenic, blood work.
This is my life now.
Year 2:
Doc said it. It’s gone!
I beat what should have killed me.
I can live my life.
Year 3:
It lingers inside.
Thoughts that it might reappear
Stronger and vengeful.
Year 4:
It didn’t come back.
It won’t. Because it knows me.
I will win again.
Year 5:
It’s Leukemia.
Acute, promyelocytic
but it didn’t win.
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