Archive | November 2025

A village

The statistic’s page in my poetry blog shows me how many people are reading my blog every day
Then there is a world map
And and I can see which countries the readers live in
It’s so inspiring
It’s truly amazing
That people in Vietnam and Columbia
Singapore and Indonesia and Bahrein
Read what I write
I look at that world map
And realize how connected we are
How easy it is to communicate with a global audience
We have come such a long way
From the times that we needed to read books to find out what was happening
In the other parts of the world
Or travel
Now, the world is at our fingertips
It has become a village
And we are its inhabitants

Nov 27, 2025

A reminder

My nose starts running for no reason

I don’t have a cold

I don’t have allergies 

Then I remember I take cancer medication

Medicine to prevent a relapse

And this medicine has few side effects

One of which is a runny nose

But I try to be thankful for taking this pill

Otherwise the cancer may return

I have to live with the reminders of the cancer I had and the uncertainty of it coming back

The scars of cancer are on my body

My chest doesn’t look the same 

My nose drips and I am reminded that I had cancer a while back

Nov 24, 2025