Best Carcinogens Poems
So much contamination
needs a close examination.
take a breath of radiation
or a toxic medication
select a name with aspartame
clean your car of acid rain
eat the food with preservatives
and other long letter additives
from the air-borne pathogens
to the many carcinogens
wipe off this and sanitize that
Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch
landfills loaded with human waste
trash mountains growing at rapid pace
fish lying dead from climate change
icebergs and coastlines rearranged
and now in our existence
is the practice of social distance
Contamination of all kinds
even pollution of our minds.
3/31/17
'STRAND no 700
Brian Strand, Sponsor
Categories:
carcinogens, environment, pollution, society,
Form:
Couplet
c ancer waiting to happen
i nhaling all kinds of carcinogens
g etting unhealthy lungs and high blood pressure
a lways have breath like an ashtray
r eally not the price to pay
e verybody hates your smell of smoke
t ar in the lungs is no joke
t asting cigarettes in a mouth is so gross
e ven your kids hate the smell
s o quit smoking your life away
Categories:
carcinogens, imagination
Form:
Acrostic
That cancer has ravaged my family, it is true
My mom first with melanoma at age forty-two,
Bone cancer took my Uncle Cladie for a ride
Until the pain caused him to commit suicide,
My dad lost his battle to non-Hodgkins lymphoma
Then, my wife Deb succumbed to a rare carcinoma.
I believe most forms of cancer we can prevent
Doctors say our lifestyles can cause us to present,
Not availing ourselves of many self-cancer tests
While ingesting carcinogens and being stressed,
Using tobacco products like there is no tomorrow
Will sooner or later cause us more than sorrow.
If one of your close relatives died from the disease
It’s a warning signal you cannot do as you please
Eat nutritious foods, exercise, get plenty of rest
The least to be said is doing your dead-level best
To maintain a healthy lifestyle with a regular check
Do not say, “We’re all going to die—what the heck!”
Yes, it is true, we are all going to die…someday
Experiencing the suffering from cancer, I can say,
Leads me to believe there is a much better way
So, heed the advice I am sharing with you today,
Believe me, my friend, tobacco use is not okay.
Please, do not let a frivolous habit make you pay!
FIRST PLACE WINNER
May 31, 2021
written for the "Cancer Ivy" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke
(an abbreviated sestina)
[NOTE: I purposely chose the provocative title to attract
as many readers as possible. It's an important message!]
Categories:
carcinogens, cancer, death, family, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Swelling waters rage across the land;
two foot, three, four…water-tantrum’s take their toll;
capturing houses and cars.
The collection grows with every storm.
Tempests wage their war on unsuspecting trees and crops;
limbs whirl about the airways. frantically.
Four legged’s seek the higher ground for, safety’s sake;
hurricane is a non-discriminatory beats;
attacking everyone and everything in its path.
Whirling, swirling wind-tops, cut through land, neighborhoods, cities and forests;
flinging debris like a child throwing a temper-tantrum.
A spoiled brat in a rage.
Land will renew with time, cities will be re-built and birds will populate woods,
forests and parks once again; provided that,
hurricane tantrum does not repeat itself, too soon.
Nature’s children can be fussy and destructive to,
people who upset the natural balance of things.
Everything that exists has a purpose;
from the cockroach to the human.
When each does it’s part, a balance is achieved.
Kill the rats off and the pests that feed off of them;
infect dogs, cats, livestock and even homes.
Frack-crack the earth’s crust-to-the-core and
tectonic plates slide too far;
carcinogens flood water and wetlands;
killing off billions of lives.
Man, mammal, bird and fish…all gone.
Obliterate the trees and you obliterate oxygen;
obliterate oxygen and you…extinguish all life.
The human beast has, an uncanny ability to do as,
they please; never considering the consequences of,
their actions.
It’s so easy to blame nature’s other children for,
human carelessness and mistakes;
Preaching about responsibility while avoiding it.
Categories:
carcinogens, earth, earth day, natural
Form:
Free verse
Once, there were buffalo herds,
then the white man came.
All business money-minds;
their hide market thrived
and then…no buffalo.
Once, the porcelain beluga,
numbered in the thousands.
Years of caviar-mad minds
depleted the pods,
to only three thousand, worldwide;
then, there were nearly none.
A-biotic oil hunters fracked
the oceans; earth’s crust.
Cracked by water and carcinogens,
That have, depleted too much algae.
Soon, there’ll be none.
No plankton and algae,
starves thousands of marine species.
Look ahead, fifty to one hundred years
and there’ll be no more.
Once, there were colorful coral reefs,
but demoniacal corporations,
have destroyed them.
Black sludge,
Oil-seeking fools, trusting fools;
have eliminated them.
Now everything floods and
there will be no more life.
Once, there were planets,
in Earth’s solar system.
The great destroyer, humans;
Have obliterated them all
and it exists,
No more.
Someday, humans will obliterate themselves
and then, there’ll be none left;
on the brown dwarf,
formerly called,
“Earth”.
Categories:
carcinogens, analogy, earth, environment, sky,
Form:
Free verse
Upholstered flesh is wetted with a single stroke
Thumbs clasp and rotate
Ribs click with an enhanced inhalation
Consequences of a little death
Tissues consume bloat
Drain and wither
Free radicals creep into closed eyes
Flecks are swept like stars of dust
Behind shutters wide pupils flex
A peated tongue tenses
An oesophagus glows engorged
Sweet vanilla lingers
Mingled with formaldehyde
There is no tomorrow
The LED red says twelve zero one
Bulbs have soft rainbow halos
In a blur of blue grey
Addled thoughts vacate for one voice
Plasma releases its cargo of cyanide
Knots loosen
A cranium rolls and a crow sings
Dishevelled brows descend
A skeleton is exposed
Cheeks rise
An alternate being rises
A flat metallic switch is weighted
And poisons are held inside
A marigold illumination fades
And Black edges are defined
A pulse reverberates in a temple
A decision is made
Carcinogens are pushed
A door is fired a quarter circle
And rubber echoes on glass
Time for round two
Categories:
carcinogens, addiction,
Form:
Blank verse
The scents I remember like hand rolled cigars
Wine cask lined cellars in musty cool basements
Chocolate miniatures nestled in bright candy dishes
Tea leaves and mint steeping in dainty china cups.
Baked goods cooling on the kitchen counter
Roast with potatoes in a rich onion broth
Lilacs and roses lined on back yard fences
Channel #5 clings to grandmother’s sweater
Scents I remember from childhood spent
Fondly reminiscing with a wistful smile
In this sterile world I live in now
What will my grandchildren remember?
No leaves burnt on a cold autumn night
No carcinogens cooked over red hot coals
No second hand smoke that will cling to your clothes
No hairspray, no tea roses, no creams or colognes
No Sundays exploring my old Aunt Ruth’s farm
No chickens or guineas; no old dusty barns
No fresh moved hay or cinnamon apple pies
Just germicide, purified, Ionic fresh air.
Categories:
carcinogens, introspection, nostalgia, philosophyold, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Dave Grigger is marinating in the tub.
Stopped by the Dollar-General and
got some bubble-bath. Feels like a
a jacuzzi at a midget night club filled
with gassy-ass dwarfs.
Reach for the cigs - wait -
dab hands on towel to dry.
Cool.
Now reach for the cigs, draw
one, like a blunted dagger
of delectable carcinogens.
Got no matches.
The head of a German Shepherd emerged
from the bubble bath.
My work was not finished, damn.
Gotta picket a few more abortion clinics.
Categories:
carcinogens, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Funny how we speak with two tongues
How we sing two tunes to the same song
We claim that all things God made are good
Yet, we condemn when they're not understood
Marijuana, the herb is not of itself, bad
It is man’s greed and indiscipline that is sad
I bet, the corporate drug lords will now lobby the hill
In the rush to enlarge their bank accounts, still
Soon the old, sick and depressed in some states
Will have to pay triple! Yes, that is their fate
There has to be more research, new laws on the books
To cut off the street gangs, pushers and such folks
Make a difference in the crime rate, clean up the streets
If buying cigarette with carcinogens is legal
Makes no sense, for all the fuss, let’s be real
Left as is, soon more twelve year olds will sell!
Did you say, ‘Not in my hood?! Wait! What's that smell?!
Categories:
carcinogens, life, people, political
Form:
Rhyme
Train Disaster, East Palestine, Ohio
Twenty days Ago.
Pete Buttigieg- Where Are You?
Doesn’t he care one bit if they eat.
East Palestine,filled with poisons
Hands swollen,crimson red from acid toxins
So what if they cannot breathe?
Who cares if carcinogens fill their lungs?
Or, they have safe water to drink, not!
The American President with Zelensky
has glasses of champagne to clink.
And a gift of Five Hundred Million,with a
warm handshake and a wink.
Three thousand, five hundred animals dead
in East Palestine lie.
But the world weeps over a dead whale?
And humanity cheers, as ‘Air Farce One’ flies!
**Pete Buttigieg is Secretary of State of the USA,
no experience . But can play the piano well and
speak fluent Norwegian. **
God Bless the citizens of Ohio, whose air
and water are not yet tested by FEMA.
Let that happen to DC. New York or Chicago?
FEMA could not get there fast enough!
2/22/2023
Categories:
carcinogens, america, angst, corruption, how
Form:
Free verse
Carcinogens make me feel stronger
The burn of liquor makes me feel cool
There are demons in my head trying to make me break the rules
I know that knives are bad
I know this all sounds cruel
But they tell me it's okay for blood to drip into a pool
The shrink told me the pills would make the voices go away
But what I found, and much to his dismay
The demons made me through the pills away
I know that people love me
Even if they don't say
But I can't help but wonder if I should take me life away
There are demons still inside me
Wanting me to break
But they don't know I still have a smile to fake
Until I find one real
Real enough to keep
These horrors I throw down, down below my feet
All the way to Hell
Back to where they came
The devil hasn't won this one
My King; he still reigns
Categories:
carcinogens, depression, suicide,
Form:
Free verse
The rain falls down
As the angels cry
Dripping their tears
From a darkened sky
They look upon Earth
With celestial shame
It's not what they thought
At the start of the game
So much destruction
And so much demise
That's why there's tears
In all of their eyes
A green and blue planet
That held so much hope
Is now being lost
To violence and dope
With carcinogens
Filling our lungs
We're climbing a ladder
With very few rungs
Lord help us all
To see what they see
Let's turn things around
And learn to be free
Stop all the fighting
In countries around
We all have a heart
That beats with a sound
Angels are watching
With darkening with fears
Let's not dissapoint
By drawing their tears
All can love one
And one can love all
Let's stop the rain
By heeding the call
Rockman :-)
Categories:
carcinogens, introspection, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Sitting upon these fringes of change an odd precept
Perhaps a bit bizarre their maxims ironic while viewed
Aneath an infants classroom desk while, his sirens wailed
Gazing into this magical glass; holding both, a future as past
Despotic her age of Aquarius ? Phantoms wielding blades
Making way apropos past time's horizontal doors; vertigo altars
Lifting yesteryears fetus high unto tomorrow's sacrilegious rubicon skies....
Wiping the dust from their babies knees; pledging allegiance while hallucinating
Amid some carcasses carcinogens chemical compound, reactions ? Suigeneris
Inversion's irruptive talisman's clan less, love's holy grail; epochtic charms rattling cans
Skeletal bones prevalent hands ? Theocracy, his kingfish in a morbid light; enter, her sandman.
Categories:
carcinogens, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form:
Crumbled listlessly in the old porch rocker
Smoking a cigarette, cursing the shadows
His flaming orange tip lights
A world of carcinogens as he
Doubles over coughing, spitting up blood.
A life of moonshine
Stealing and pilfering
Numerous women and unknown children
A few honest days of working in coal mines
Have left their malignant imprints.
The coonhound bays at the moonlit sky
Ensnared by brambles
Near the rotted porch where his
Master fights to recover and reach for
Another non-filtered cigarette.
Sultry air, no chance of rain,
Nonstop sound of cicadas,
Lyrics for a song of
Southern summer heat
Invading and debilitating the senses.
Categories:
carcinogens, death, sad, time,
Form:
Free verse
Cancer
Cancel
All
Negative
Carcinogens
Erase them
Remove them.
Freedom
Restored
Eradicate
Eliminate
Categories:
carcinogens, cancer, celebration, inspirational, recovery
Form:
Acrostic