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"Poetry with wit, humor, irony, perspicacity and revolutionary politics brought a warmth and smile during my weakest moments. I will never ever forget the therapy i received"—Fred Ho, Cancer Warrior.    ** Click Here for other comments on the poetry of Steve Bloom **

FREEDOM . . .         . . . is as much the leopard which has a baby wildebeest by the throat as it is all of the other wildebeests who have made good their escape.     How often do we marvel at the way predator and herd—each taking only what is required or else giving back in the same spirit— have found a balance so that both might survive?       Now, however, consider the tiniest of cancer cells inhabiting a body such as mine. Grant to this being a freedom as modest as that claimed by our leopard and I will one day find myself inhabiting the same world as our baby wildebeest. The tumor, however cannot comprehend that my final gasp sounds it's death knell too.       And you who believe yourselves to be freer than the leopard because like cancer cells there is no limit to what you are able to destroy, who spread like an uncomprehending malignancy infecting our planet, what end can you imagine for this tumor sometimes referred to as "humanity"?

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ADVICE TO ASPIRING POETS   1. Suppose that it comes true: Your name in lights, outshining all others in this vast galaxy         of poetry.    How hard, then, to envision the next day but one, when another will become the toast, a brighter star         eclipsing yours?    What then? Does this future-you remember words worth all the energy that has been spent upon them? Will they be sufficient         to sustain you?    If so let me suggest that you allow them to sustain you now, disregard the rest. For such words, surely, are present as we speak, and (I reveal no secret here) will remain the only element of poetry which becomes a part of who you are         forever.    2. Enter our present endeavor with dreams of fame and each fellow poet, every critic, all those in attendance at your next reading, any journal editor, curators of  random websites, not to mention so many judges of too many contests, lie between you         and your goal.    Engage, however, with a simple pledge to be the best poet you can possibly become and suddenly there is only one individual who can ever stand in your way.

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