Best Chemo Poems

You live in terror
Of an enemy 
That you feel you can’t hide from
And that you cannot see

You live in fear
Of a murderous curse
Also known as cancer, a tumor
Or worse.

You believe in something
Called Chemotherapy
With a 2% chance 
Of living happily

Have you heard of the things?
You could...

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Sitting in the backseat ~ yackety
she drives like
    crackers ~ wackedy
speeding to the movies?
we can’t be late?
Driver ahead asleep at the
    light
panic stop she makes ~ 5 seatbelts lock
But the 
backlash! ........... flying wig
plops smack in my lap ....

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When lifting hair was not a crime
Tonto was ahead of his time
He saw a bald Ranger
Whose mask made him stranger 
A real pandemic paradigm!...

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chemo waiting room
patients eat saltines
from a candy dish



Published in Bottle Rockets #42 2020

AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on October 25, 2018...

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no need after chemo
       a pink lacy bra...

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KISS OF CHEMO           

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After first injection, hair started to thin
Eyelash and eyebrows cut to the root
Nothing left but patches of bare skin
But personality was acute

Copyright © 2011 By Caryl S. Muzzey...

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Abdominal pain and nausea this day
Thoughts run wild, gallbladder or
Stomach cancer~chemo  

Sponsor: Amy Green
Contest: Let's Try A Little Kimo...

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Titian tresses tumble
as do her tears
I’ll save on hairdressing costs
she says with a watery smile

BITE SIZE POEM no 29 Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Line Gauthier

12/10/21...

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Chemo War 2 (some months ago)

So many months of toxic love? and radiation,
 meds, destroying disfigured foes
collaterial danage as useful cells die
and badly burnt in chemical
and radiant heat, I am drained and pale
my hair thinned, my skin  red and raw
this is the final fight,...

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Wake up and rush for the toilet and say my prayers

 Stomach races trying to catch up to the bowels emptying anxious

Chemo the man said it takes a bit to get used to and I’ll ring you

Take a lovely shower , feeling lovely, and ready...

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When you've lost your faith
on troubled days
and the world slaps you in the face-
it's just a phase.

When you're afraid and scared
at the universe-
remember those who care-
and those who love you will never disperse.

It's deep inside you 
where the healing begins-
and though the outside 
is more...

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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 the other colors

Leaving the orange and the vanilla
Neatly for others
Who does that?

Being a poet I used to think that one...

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On a Patio in Central Pennsylvania

		Slowly     patiently     silently
		a stink bug descends
		toward my white-haired woman.
		She is undeterred
		by the imminent intrusion
		of this small spot
		of Nature’s alien creep.
		From where?
		Maybe Nature or the bug man
		at the nearby college might know.
		My wife...

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No matter what’s in front of you 
Wanda Woman is behind you 
Wanda Woman!
No matter what’s behind you 
Butterflies gonna pull for you!

She’s a dancer, cancer
Can’t kill her soul
She’s a winner, and in her
Is a heart of gold

She’s a mother, lover
A grand-mom too
She’s a tougher,...

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