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Best Cancerous Poems

Below are the all-time best Cancerous poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of cancerous poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Love One Another
“Peace I leave with you
           my peace I give you
     ...

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Categories: cancerous, death, depression, hate, hope,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Apologies and Roses
We don’t appreciate
the sun until it r a i n s,
warmth of gentle rays
that subtly stroke
distressed skin
  when time was f r o z...

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Categories: cancerous, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Letter Sent
I am writing to you because I know you have a wish.
I have been thinking diligently about your wish. It is not
going to be easy...

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Categories: cancerous, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Death My Pal
Death,
An old friend, as old as life,
We met soon after my birth 
He liked to play games with me 
“Be ready,” he said. “I am...

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Categories: cancerous, death, fear, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Hopeless
It seeps into your bones this silent sadness
Spreading like a caustic cancerous liquid
Black and oozing slithery fingers into spaces
Once open petals to joy and light...

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© Judith S   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancerous, depression, sad,
Form: Free verse



The Narcissistic Neanderthal
Like an archaic humanoid dinosaur
     you  plunder through life taking no prisoners,
        ...

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Categories: cancerous, loss, passion, political, romance,
Form: Blank verse
Alchemy
How do you change a lie into the truth?
Alchemy, dear children ...
this is how it's done, using unverifiable proof

First, you take a sick, dirty lie,
and...

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Categories: cancerous, corruption, dark, psychological, word
Form: Dramatic Verse
My Left Breast
strange it was there just the other day 
hanging about as usual, 
reminding me in my mirrored image 
of my definite femininity 
now gone, am...

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Categories: cancerous, introspection, life, loss, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Utopia Sleeps
We have taken all anxiety
into our dreams
cruel, unfathomable acts 
lodge into our fascia, as pain

Part of a raging beast, 
oozing out of control
helpless cells, imbued...

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Categories: cancerous, earth, philosophy, society, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Passion
Melodic passion, lilting harmonies lull my slender fingers, 
when I play with the stringed keyboard, I sink into the  mellifluous music, can feel the...

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Categories: cancerous, appreciation, art, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member To God Be the Glory - Great Things He Has Done
To God be the glory - great things he has done.



‘I am Eddie Rowlands, I became a Christian in 1985, at that time I also...

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Categories: cancerous, god,
Form: Narrative
To Those Who Love Me
Brown, yucky and tasteless
Toxic monsters
All tightly bundled
Into a thin roll.
That's me! 
Slim and handy
As I squeeze in between
Your fingers.
Burning my tail, 
I turn into ashes...

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Categories: cancerous, health,
Form: I do not know?
Tonight I Shall Write
Tonight, I think, I’ll write a few lines.

As the clock strikes the dead of night
And the thick darkness is slowly swallowing me up
Nothing but the...

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Categories: cancerous, depression, suicide,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Colour of Love
The Colour of Love

Kaleidoscope of spectrums
On the outside... looking in
There’s only one colour—Love—
Bound by prejudice.

Archaic transmutations
Bequeath this cancerous blight 
Upon each generation
For mass genocide.

Rose-coloured glasses...

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Categories: cancerous, allegory, love, people, philosophy,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Growing Old Can Cause
Will old age cause any of these?

a)  Tresses to become gray or white
b)  Inability to sleep at night
c)  Just when sleep finally...

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Categories: cancerous, age,
Form: List

Book: Shattered Sighs