Best Cancer Poems
Below are the all-time best Cancer poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cancer poems written by PoetrySoup members
Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For SharonThirty Eight ( Corny Cancer Poem) For Sharon
Hallmark has a million cards in their catalog
And not one of them says,
Life Sucks
American greetings had nothing that...
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Categories:
absence, best friend, cancer,
Form:
Blank verse
The Topic of CancerGod, so cruel a plague upon me,
dreams crushed, forsaken,
even as I hopefully step
where the sun leaves me to smile
for those brief but celebrated
...
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Categories:
cancer,
Form:
Free verse
A Beautiful Mirror-Escape of the mountain-
Do you care about my breast?
The new curve - countryside corset
The beauty of every summer dress
Laying down, wearing out gravity
Embracing...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, cancer, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Pink Lace**Every pace change --are the voices of poets sharing his/her Ribbon**
"PINK LADIES"
The phone rings,
The clock dings,
I scream, scream, and...
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Categories:
anger, bullying, cancer, death
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Green AnniversariesThis is not a time for us
Facing these weeks of hospital walls
My knight now jousts an invisible foe
Shorn of hair, yet still he wears
Tubes of...
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Categories:
cancer, hope, marriage,
Form:
Free verse
HumanityIf we don’t feel with our hearts, we don’t belong
If we don’t see as one, the world is wrong
Beyond the wars and the hate and...
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Categories:
cancer, life, peoplechild, lost, child,
Form:
Couplet
Worst Love Poem Ever WrittenI suck at dying poems
Chemo poems, Metastatic Cancer poems,
Hair falling out in the shower poems
And I told a half truth
When I told you I...
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Categories:
cancer, cry, death of
Form:
Elegy
The Luxury of OrdinaryToday was a good day
Today he walked on legs unbent
And erect spine of a man intent
On stilling the cacaphony of monotony
And smoothing the callouses of...
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Categories:
cancer, hope, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
By God's GraceI, who always used to gravitate toward health and fitness,
would flatter myself that I was too healthy to ever get a bad disease.
Then it happened!...
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Categories:
cancer,
Form:
Free verse
- I Died a Little Inside - a Sad Bluebell Story -A windswept bluebell I am
even though the sun is high in the sky
The wind ruffled the hair
my skin would slowly freeze like mosaic
Want to paint...
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Categories:
blue, cancer, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Unhappy HostessCome into my house,
Sit anywhere you like.
No, not at my table,
No, not on my chair.
Come into my house,
Sit anywhere.
I invited you,...
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Categories:
anti bullying, appreciation, cancer,
Form:
Free verse
Rainbow Sherbet and Dying PoemsI never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out
The Sherbet ice cream
It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...
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Categories:
bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Last DayGene stood. Skyscraper demanding. Cold steel.
Thirty-five hard years. Over now. Just like that.
Corrugated box. Family photo. Timex watch.
Bitter coffee.
Stale sweat.
He walked out. Sun blaze....
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Categories:
cancer, grief, jobs, loss, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
Abc World's Famous Scientists In HistoryA is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented the electricity ...
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Categories:
cancer, inspirational, me,
Form:
Abecedarian
With Angels Wings"With Angels Wings"
The whispering winds, a song they sing
A song of sorrow and of a heart so big
Your love reaches as far as the...
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Categories:
anxiety, beauty, cancer, death,
Form:
Ode