Po. Eh. Tree.
Po. Eh. Tree. – brenda johima
Health is a Slippery Slope
health is a slippery slope. you climb up. you slide back down. to where you started from. or even further down the hill. to a place you have never been before. wondering how the heck. you got there from where you once were. – Brenda Johima
what was it like? cancer having cancer
what was it like? cancer having cancer it was like a storm that would keep coming back over and over leaving you drowning and gasping for air grabbing for life jackets hoping to float with head above water survive just survive keep breathing just breathe on top of this soil” — brenda johima
pretending that i have hair
i had a tub put shampoo on my fuzzy top scrubbed my scalp then put a turban-style-towel on top of my head i was all cozy all the while pretending that i have hair” — brenda johima
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writing when you have nothing to say is like …” – brenda johima
getting unstuck
when i first got diagnosed with breast cancer, all of a sudden, little bits of poetry just started to flow out of me, out of the blue it seemed … it was FUN and effortless … then i began chemotherapy, and it all just came to a halt on its own, just as fast as it…
Japanese Maple by Clive James
Japanese Maple by Clive James Your death, near now, is of an easy sort. So slow a fading out brings no real pain. Breath growing short Is just uncomfortable. You feel the drain Of energy, but thought and sight remain: Enhanced, in fact. When did you ever see So much sweet beauty as when fine…
resting
resting it seems like all i do these days is rest love, brenda
too much distance between
they’re not yet meant to meet maybe never maybe sometime powerful words touching hearts yet seems like continents apart — Brenda Johima
opposites don’t attract
polar opposites rough and tumble go and get ’em soft and gentle crushed with a word silenced with an eye — Brenda Johima