Best Biopsy Poems

“Blue Angels, Black Sheep, Monitors and The House of Random Penguins” 

The womb
is scooped like 
an over ripe melon
Time is the incorrigible felon,
the forgotten lost...

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Three years have passed since diagnosis
then I was told that cancer entered me
in the prostate was where it did dwell
but consultant was sure of setting...

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She traces a  litter of  rising stars;
while exploring  a place blissful within--
or even feel  a desire to extend a timeline
where vicious...

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I'd been throwing up a lot.
My food stuck in my throat,
So every time I had a meal,
I'd cough and gag and choke.

I went to see...

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Double Set Up


The first lump was the scariest in 1983.
 I had found it in the shower.
 Two other major surgeries I've already had that...

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It's the waiting.
When time becomes thick with anticipated difficulty and borrowed suffering.
No matter how attentive and involved I may seem,
Internally I am fixated on the...

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So as not to come under the scrutiny of an oncologist,
Each six months to check my moles I visit my dermatologist!
His exam is as thorough...

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I do not know if I truly have ever been granted
divine intervention, but most likely I received it
after my surgery for breast cancer when a...

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The surgeon cut into my breast
(I’d removed my white thermal vest!)
Now who would have thought
An internal wart
Had meant I’d been feeling so stressed!

The result of...

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I waited too long
to mow my lawn
biopsy my lung
yet lived long enough, anon,
however long is long.
Whatever. It's not wrong
to count along
while busy living. Sing
and stay...

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HAPPY 31ST BIRTHDAY TO ME
YES WE ALL KNOW JESUS 
SHED FOR ME WAY 
BACK AT CALVARY 
BUT ON FEBRUARY 12,1985
WAS THE DAY MY PARENTS GAVE...

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My poor right boob, has rainbow colours
After a biopsy the doctors had to do
I’m still in pain, but there’s no weeping
I yearn for sleeping
As dreamers...

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Boobies every female has a pair but what if a tumour appears
Go to your doctor their nothing to fear because your doctor 
will always be...

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Arriving from unknown somewhere
He set up clinic in the market square
Declared he could cure any disease
Using herbal drugs of plants and trees
Townsfolk being credulous
Soon to...

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As I was sitting in the waiting room about to get the results from a biopsy I recently had
I was thinking how quickly life can...

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