This is the fifth – and my favourite – of the five haiku I wrote for Freya on the theme of cancer.
is the sun shining?
I’ve heard rumour of its warmth
from the nightingale
Francis James Franklin 2016
Francis James Franklin has appeared before here at Pure Haiku. He is a fantasy author and poet with a perverse sense of humour, a fascination with human nature, and a passion for Greek mythology, vampires and Supergirl. Check out both his blogs at Alina Meridon and Francis James Franklin
I chose this haiku because again Frank has captured how I felt during chemotherapy. I would “come up” out of the boiling blood and darkness to find the sun was shining…
Francis James Franklin (Alina Meridon) 