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Best Chemo Poems

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


Premium Member 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: chemo, anger, bullying, cancer, death
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Worst Love Poem Ever Written
I 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: chemo, cancer, cry, death of
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Thirty-Eight, Cancer Poem: For Sharon
Thirty 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: chemo, absence, best friend, cancer,
Form: Blank verse
Lonely
Reaching for your hand 
but knowing you have gone
I hear the birds begin to sing
their early morning song
Yearning for to stroke again 
your shiny chemo...

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Categories: chemo, husband, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I 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: chemo, bereavement, best friend, cancer,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member I'M Not Alone
Tears were rolling down his face, he told me.
I heard them in the sound of his sad voice.
Before today, we’d been so glad to know
my...

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Categories: chemo, feelings, health, husband,
Form: Quatrain
Eileen
Eileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and...

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Categories: chemo, for her, mom, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holy Spirit Moments
I’ve never experienced hallelujah or come-to -Jesus moments
like I’m sure many religious folks do.
I’ve never spoken in tongues (nor would I want to).
I don’t believe...

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Categories: chemo, god,
Form: Prose
Premium Member A Little Bit Free
Just a Little Bit Free

 I feel that I need to get out
 to walk by the oak and pine trees
 breathe fresh air and....

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Categories: chemo, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Dance With Mary Jane
I never got to dance with Mary Jane
although I heard she sure knows how to swing!
She has a twin, and he is masculine;
he doesn’t have...

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Categories: chemo, social,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A "highly" Debated Issue
From glaucoma to chemotherapy
Medical marijuana has its place
But you won’t find any prescribed
In the conservative Sunshine State

Chris couldn’t eat while under treatment
Watched him lose one-hundred...

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Categories: chemo, healthpeople, people, drug,
Form: Quatrain
Dear Cancer
Dear Cancer, Hi. Its, David Schwent.
       Just dropping a line after the time we've spent
Together off and on and...

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Categories: chemo, family, thank you, wife,
Form: I do not know?
When I Am Gone
BEFORE I AM GONE

The breeze at dawn,
Whispering  secrets to birds, chirping  melodious lullabies,
Waking up to the touch of the first gleam of morning...

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Categories: chemo, cancer, death, hope, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She Waits
She waits in traffic while running her errands
singing along to the car radio,
then waits in lines at various places
smiling at faces she doesn’t know.
Evenings, she...

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Categories: chemo, change,
Form: Free verse
Life's Lesson For You
This is GOD'S GIFT to YOU

Tell yourself upon waking everyday god is merciful and kind

He will not put anything on me today I can't handle

Live...

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Categories: chemo, courage, god, inspirational, miracle,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs