Sam Alexandra Rose

Writer, researcher, music lover, cancer survivor with CMMRD ("double" Lynch syndrome)

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Thank you for un-understanding

June 28, 2015 / / 0 Comments

When you’re struggling with breathing,
it’s time to stop reading –
switch off your brain when
thinking about screening
leads to real life screaming

I probably am scared of death
but mainly I am afraid of this body
and that is far more immediate.
What will it do next?

But my problems aren’t for you to solve
– but thank you –
just shut up and nod and listen

I am glad you can’t understand.
I am glad you haven’t experienced this.
In a way, I don’t want you to “get it”.
Your inability to empathise is just
another thing to be grateful for.

geography

June 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

blue skies reflected in the
whites
of your eyes

in darkness the
breeze
of your exhale
echoes

the slowly forming haze
of one too many broken days

I prise your toes apart
to give them each more space –
they creak out of place

Send Me Snail Mail

June 8, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Send me snail mail
Because I’m far too impatient.
Give me something worth waiting for,
I crave the excitement. 

Send me snail mail,
I’m on the edge of my seat.
I’m waiting to be picked up
Or crushed beneath your feet. 

Send me snail mail,
Any day now will do.
Tell me I’m worth the postage
And your best handwriting, too. 

Send me snail mail,
I’m waiting by the door
For something to break the monotony,
A letter worth waiting for.

June 3, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Extract from my first chapbook, Empowerthy. Available on Lulu.com:

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Free shipping until 4th June with code JUNESHIP and a portion of profits donated to Lynch Syndrome UK.

I submitted the book to Amazon today so it should be on there in like, six to eight weeks. Trying to get the word out so if you like my poetry, please take a look at the book and tell a friend. Thank you so much for your support!

June 2, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Free priority mail shipping or 50% off ground shipping on my new chapbook Empowerthy! Use code JUNESHIP http://ow.ly/NE8g1

Back in time

May 31, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Back in time
to a newer me,
when I was more
of what I chose to be

A cleaner slate,
a darker sky
simpler times
a more reachable high 

A longer lifespan
shorter eyesight
not noticing days pass
living for the night 

Now present me
turning up the track
would do anything
for a clear path back.

May 30, 2015 / / 0 Comments

My first chapbook Empowerthy is now available on Lulu.com! I’m so excited and pleased with how it’s turned out. The theme is empowerment and empathy, with poems about my experience as a cancer survivor with Lynch syndrome. There are a lot of poems I hope will resonate with others, and I hope some uplifting ones too!

Part of the profits will be donated to Lynch Syndrome UK.

Here are all the details:

Hard copy on Lulu.com: http://ow.ly/NE8g1

eBook on Lulu.com (ePub format for all eReaders): http://ow.ly/NE8s8

iBookstore: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/empowerthy/id999818942?mt=11

Soon to be available in print on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, as well as KIndle, Kobo and Nook!

Thank you very much for your support; any reviews, comments etc are greatly appreciated!

Planning my chapbook

May 17, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Spending the evening starting to plan my first self-published poetry collection! Exciting stuff. At the moment it looks like it’s going to be around 40 poems/pages, which is sort of a bit longer than an average chapbook and shorter than a typical collection. I think going for a chapbook length would be better, so I have some cutting down to do. This is going to be tricky.

Tell Me II

May 13, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Tell me I’m amazing and strong and
how if you were me you’d be proud
because you don’t know how you
would have coped.
Tell me I’m an inspiration, because
something good has to have
come from this.
Tell me something that will
make it all worth it.

Time Machine

May 5, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Life has turned you into a jumper
and not the knitted kind
but the kind of jumper
who jumps at the chance to pick up a knife
or miscount your dosage
and if I had known life was going to turn out this way
I would have told you never to grow up
but what good is a time machine now?

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