Best Melanoma Poems
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 coming for you.”
I waited, was all ready to go,
no fear,
no agony......
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Categories:
melanoma, death, fear, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
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 a healthy glow
having both outer and inner beauty to bestow,
Second oldest......
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Categories:
melanoma, for her, mom, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Melanoma
...Where the sun beats on dry cracking plains like an anvil. Where Winter’s frozen fingers strangle growth. Where sweaty shirts cling to mortal skin. Where humanity stands on a deserted beach, or waits ......
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Categories:
melanoma, life,
Form:
Haibun
The Madonna
...my presence was needed
the announcement echoed thru hospital halls
which meant the medical team assembled
but that kind of expertise
was not why i was called
my lot in this equation, a signature......
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Categories:
melanoma, appreciation, devotion, faith,
Form:
Free verse
The Bully
...The venomous bite
Distant, but ever so bright
A nerve doth stricken
A heart so sickened
Melanoma like stature
A rapture like creature
Ruthless and mean
Cunning and keen
Held back three ye......
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Categories:
melanoma, anti bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Word Association With a Hypochondriac
...Hello
Goodbye
Morning
Sickness
Cigarette?
Cancer
Drugs
Salvation
Fluffy little bunnies
Myxomatosis
Yoghurt
Bacteria
Sunshine
Melanoma
Toilet
Armageddon
Death
Everywhere
Drugs
Salva......
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Categories:
melanoma, confusion, health, life
Form:
Imagism
We'Re All Going To Die--What the Heck
...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......
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Categories:
melanoma, cancer, death, family, history,
Form:
Rhyme
A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertime
...wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
-
farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
-
wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid t......
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Categories:
melanoma, june, nature, summer, sun,
Form:
Haiku
Cancer's Veil
...Carcinoma, melanoma sick twins
Inside their innocuous hosts grin
For surface tension brings no chagrin
Another, common diagnosis will time lend
Healthy cell structures to amend
Immune systems with gu......
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Categories:
melanoma, angst, cancer,
Form:
Rhyme
What My Mother Means To Me
...In December 1951, I turned ten years old--
Harry Truman was president of the United States,
The Korean Conflict raged on a faraway peninsula,
The Golden Gate Bridge closed due to high wi......
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Categories:
melanoma, love, memorial, mother son,
Form:
Narrative
A Good Man
...Working as a NY cop on three alternating shifts,
his wife at home with five little kids,
ranging in ages from 1 to 12,
his police boat up and down on the swells,
One week he'd have normal 8-4pm......
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Categories:
melanoma, dad,
Form:
Light Verse
Get a Grip
...(For JHL's 'Hauntings')
I tempt my fate with tree branches. Each and every night
I walk home from my bus stop as darkness drains the light.
I pass by St. John's Cemetery and shoot a wayward ......
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Categories:
melanoma, deathchildren, me,
Form:
Quatrain
Unexpected
...A melanoma in my fair skin
destroys my very dream
it leads me to screaming
then suddenly i'm crying......
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Categories:
melanoma, betrayal, blue, cancer, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Jimmy Page Was Here On July 4th
...As the sun sets
A hot wind like this
Does not belong in downtown Lansing
But here it is
Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans
My wife and I
We hold down our pouncin......
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Categories:
melanoma, happiness, music, nostalgia, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Fighting Cancer of the Skin
...Fighting Cancer of the Skin
By Franklin Price
8/12/2015
Fighting cancer of the skin
for me is number one;
whether from the war in Vietnam,
genetics or the Sun.
Doesn't really matter
Opera......
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Categories:
melanoma, appreciation, health, life,
Form:
Rhyme