Cancer Poems - Examples of all types of cancer poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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ODE TO THE YOUNG ADULT CANCER SURVIVOR
I stood at the threshold
Of a promising life,
Ready to step out bold,
Face challenges and strife.
I wanted to soar,
Like an eagle in the sky.
Eager to conquer more,
To reach really high.
One fateful day I...
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Categories:
cancer, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Return from DesertBack from the desert and loving it
both the visit and the return.
The powerful plane deiced in Chicago.
Brittlebush, difficulty distinguishing acacia from ironwood.
Mesquite, and plenty of paloverde.
A good jazz band in Phoenix, their own style, no...
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Categories:
cancer, home, music, power,
Form: Free verse
passing the buckIn Preparing children for the adult world,
There is no better game to teach them than pass the parcel,
No better game to show them that we live in a caring world.
And when they reach adulthood in...
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Categories:
addiction, age, art, cancer,
Form: Burlesque
Radiation Waiting RoomRadiation lobby,
filled with unspoken sense.
I see a community of fighters and partners.
The partners are
the curious who know.
They sit using books as blinders,
or sitting watching others.
They are family waiting.
The fighters are strugglers,
arriving with smiles or stone...
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Categories:
cancer, caregiving, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
Exploiting A LieA lie is worse than a curse
A lie is a bad or false rumor on steroid
A lie can hurt countless innocents
A lie can cause unnecessary wars
A lie can destroy human lives
A lie is like a...
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Categories:
cancer, absence, america, black african
Form: Free verse
J I T
J.I.T.
(Just In Time)
Miracle Man
9/8/2024
Though Jesus gave His life for all,
I feel He’d have done so just for me.
Arms outstretched He made my call,
and from life’s misdeeds set me free.
I had never known of any love...
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Categories:
cancer, jesus, love, sin,
Form: Quatrain
I Don’t Wanna DieIn the dim light of a room, shadows cling tight,
A girl faces her fate, Stage III breast cancer in sight.
With courage so soft, and grace in her eyes,
She endures each day as her life slowly...
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Categories:
cancer, cry, father son, first
Form: Free verse
Breast CancerAin’t life sweet
So light on my feet
Cause I got my cancer beat!...
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Categories:
cancer,
Form: Rhyme
GableWhen he left us, he left us too soon.
He starred in 13 episodes of "Tycoon".
It was a day that all of his fans were sure to hate.
Christopher left us at the young age of fifty-eight.
He...
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Categories:
cancer, celebrity, death, england,
Form: Rhyme
GoodbyeYou cannot see what I hold in my heart
Your hate and your fear drive us apart.
My loving pleading eyes beckon you to see.
In outbursts of pain, you beg to let you be.
My time is laboriously...
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Categories:
bereavement, cancer, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Keep GoingNobody knows what to say,
Try to carry on as if it's just another day.
Things will be alright,
One day this horror will be out of sight.
Just try to keep it together, don't let them see you...
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Categories:
bereavement, cancer, children, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
The ProjectionistLest we forget that back in 2017 at a softball game,
they tried to massacre members of the republican congress.
Then between 2016 -2020 they impeached trump twice
for nonexistent and/or trumped-up charges.
During the fentanyl Floyd riots
they attempted...
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Categories:
cancer, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Extreme AudacityAudacity has a negative connotation
That I despise with a conspicuous passion
It’s fine for somebody to be bold
And not to be too arrogant and cold
Where narcissistic images or horns emerge
Like insatiably bad worms that nothing can...
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Categories:
abuse, cancer, corruption, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Robert Sherriff - Australian -Pearly GatesRobert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian Photographer
Pearly Gates
In life, I never take anything for granted. Everything is free, but nothing is guaranteed—except for the certainty of...
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Categories:
cancer, care, dad, daughter,
Form: Epitaph
Heaven Sending Love to all the Right CellsUnparalleled
baby quilted
blue and pink sky
Spiritually painted
Heaven smiling down
Sending love
to all the right cells
Spiritual magic
Happiness holding
together an optimistic
giddy certified day
of hope, and love.
games, prizes, fun,
Girl Scouts
Cousins
Family
Sadie's Cancer in
Remission!...
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Categories:
cancer, love,
Form: List
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