"Trilogy of Cancer"

One of my colleagues, Ann Freeman Price, went through cancer recently and put her experience to paper in poetry and song in a wonderful book entitled "Trilogy of Cancer - The Jolt, The Journey, The Joy." (Copyright 2007 - Ann Freeman Price) It is worth every penny of the fifteen dollars cover price.

Some of her verse is plain. Some goes to songs we samg at camp! She even includes handwritten staffs of music in case you don't know the tune. She includes blessedly brief notes on aspects of her experience.

The concluding poem to her first section is set to the tune of "Home on the Range."

Oh, Lump-ec-tomy!

O sing me a song
'Bout a day that went wrong
When they did the lumpectomy.
Well the nodes were bad too
So they took out a few
And two scars for Ann you can see.

OH, lumpectomy.
It's a pain and that I'll agree.
So let's move on right now.
I'll be showing you how.
We're gonna be finding the key.

She speaks of "healing circles" and drum therapy and a number of thinsg that sound strange to most folks but once inside her work, they make all the sense in the world.

This is from "Healing Drum."

simple hand drum
steady beat
five minutes
a day

five minutes
to feel my hand
touch skin of drum
synchronize with
heart and blood

five minutes for
cancer cells
to scatter from
the pounding
and the pulsing
of the ancient sound

five minutes
to feel vibration
connecting cell to cell
organizing life stream

five minutes
for beat and breath
to gather energy
for the day

the day which
starts with
drumming


Contact Ann at annfreemanprice@embarqmail.com for further information how to get a copy of her book. - Contact her quick because I did not get her permission to publish her pooems and this blog may disappear!