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    Gemini Winds
    Gemini Winds
    Gemini Winds
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    Gemini Winds

    By Kathy Guerra

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    The elements of life are better when unscripted for some. Life is not ever one way for two people. I am a survivor of cancer among other things that I was forced to face and endure. Through my poetic notation I release my thoughts and actions of moments untamed and pure. Poetic Insanity is what I call my refuge and that is where I will always reside. It is a place of passion understanding and most definitely pride.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJan 12, 2011
    ISBN9781426951367
    Gemini Winds
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    Kathy Guerra

    It is not enough to say that I am a single parent from a small town in Texas because that would be just part of the wonders of my world. I became fascinated through cursive writing when I started school. I never would have imagined that I would be blessed with a love of writing poetry. Then again, I learned the hard way that life is more than it seems... just wait and see. In my case it was everything I could not see that made it colorful. I was born into a family full of hardships and struggles who need to be acknowledged as more than middle-class Mexican Americans making their lives count day by day. I was born in 1979 and it seemed as life would be set in perfection. I was captured in the web of a cancer called Retinoblastoma two years later. So needless to say, there begins my medical struggle. Do you know how hard it is to go on through life with only one eye? Do you know what it feels like to not know what to do when your peers are constantly placing judgement on your physical difference? The crazy things that come with cancer are still happening to me and I am already thirty-one years old. My daughter is a twisted blessing in my world because she is my reflection. She almost got tangled in the same web as I yet thank God for common sense. I thank knowledge for being my refuge as a child, because as a child I escaped through learning new things. She did get the same diagnosis but at two months of age. Heartbreak. I fought with the doctors about what the better decisions would be. They wanted to repeat the same burden of removing the left eye but I declared that would be the last resort. She is now ten years of age and she has both of her beautiful brown eyes.

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      Gemini Winds - Kathy Guerra

      Table of Contents

      1. Times 31

      2. Left Side

      3. Cursive

      4. Big O’s

      5. Bus 10

      6. Kick Back

      7. Dare

      8. Upon thy Pen

      9. Movies

      10. Ethics

      11. Family Values

      12. Mommy

      13. Single View

      14. Realize

      15. Daughter of Many

      16. Taught Well

      17. Esperansa

      18. Big D

      19. Winds of Change

      20. Miss Irene

      21. Love’s Grip

      22. Secretive in a Sense

      23. Lovers’ Chaos

      24. Anger Stirs

      25. Kitchen Table

      26. Camisa Blanca

      27. Felony on Record

      28. Broken Glass

      29. Written for Mijo

      30. Backbone

      31. Pass Times

      32. Single

      33. Baby Soldier

      34. Lost No Longer

      35. Luna

      36. Scar on My Neck

      37. July 2000

      38. Upward-bound

      39. Passed Down

      40. Family Tree

      41. Raza

      42. Degree

      43. Sweet Dreams

      44. Spice

      45. Blessed

      46. Reflection

      Times 31

      I definitely was showing no fear knowing surgery was twelve days away. I was simply going to enjoy this thirty-first birthday.

      The day soon began to pass faster as the memories collided from then to now. I am a cancer survivor… I take a bow. Here I am writing poetry that I love. I am a blessing I am an example of the Lord above. They always told me God made me like this for a reason and that is why I write. My life did not start with open doors… it starts with a fight.

      Thirty one times I looked at my life in every regard and degree. I am a single parent with a heathen I was blessed to call my own. I am a part of a crazy family that seems to just grow in numbers and race. When I was thirteen I would not ever imagined I would have a child of my own and a smile on my face. Yet I do! Thirty one times I bare no regrets. Thirty one times I thank God for every hard time I have overcome. There are many that come to mind, but I will only document some.

      Twelve days away surgery comes in to my world yet again. There were tumors in my neck,

      is it ever going to end?

      Left Side

      Age two began fine and then changed with abused corruption as I stood under a lamp. Daddy noticed something was wrong as my left pupil was red, as if I were a vamp. Needless to say it was a repetition factor that clichés contradict. It will skip a generation Oh the flip-side was the victor, no one would predict.

      Watching commercials of St. Jude Children’s

      Research Hospital reminds me all over again. The needles come to mind, prayers to every child

      struggling with cancer I send.

      Retinoblastoma took my vision on the left side but did not expect to raise my spirit higher and higher as the years passed on by. I remember the tears I remember the pain. I remember wanting to just float away in the sky. I questioned everything and everyone as to why I was like I was. As a child of cancer’s chokehold- I was longing for a different buzz. I remained to stand a fighter like a little bird with a heart of a giant. I was determined to win. I stand a cancer survivor… Don’t give up is the message

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