HANDS OF TIMEAs I close the last window and draw the blinds shut;
The mountains once viewed and cool crisp air no longer a must.
As I dim the lights and close my eyes to rest
...
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Categories:
cancer, death, emotions, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Frozen" As I inhale the air with the gentle pressure my lungs could create
When the path to my inner self it trace
When I stay still, standing
Staring at the leaves clapping themselves to the wind
Mesmerizing me,
Rustling it's way towards me, setting me ready for a emotional voyage
Halting its feet, With amazement this ticking crocodile observes me
With...
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Categories:
addiction, body, cancer, emotions,
Form: Imagism
It tolls for thee
this is the third time
hubby’s rung the cancer bell
since twenty nineteen
we’ll never lose hope
his cancer can’t be beaten
and cherish each day
I now love to write
poems to invoke laughter
and to make folk smile
life is for living
humour makes a difference
use YOUR pen wisely
...
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Categories:
cancer, health, hope,
Form: Senryu
The Passing BellNot living
longer
but dying
slower
The chemo
dripping
death’s shadow
appears
Each moment
fringed
with a joy
ill censored
The countdown
has started
whose bell
— is near
(Dreamsleep: August, 2025)
...
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Categories:
cancer, death,
Form: Rhyme
FOUR YEARS STILL STANDINGFOUR YEARS, STILL STANDING
Four years bleeding, four years bruised,
Four years fighting, four years used.
Carried the weight till my back near broke,
Choked on silence, swallowed the smoke.
Four years of bills and sleepless nights,
Four years swinging at shadows and lies.
Loved and lost, trust turned thin,
Hiding the chaos I’m drowning in.
Four years scraping, hand to mouth,
Hope ran dry,...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, anxiety, cancer,
Form: Rhyme
Battle scarred but unbrokenBattle scarred but unbroken
I was captive in a silent war.
My body, the battlefield.
A quiet siege waged beneath my skin,
where cells divided
and uncertainty grew.
This body, once solely mine,
reduced to flesh,
marked like a map,
etched by others’ plans,
endlessly examined,
poked and prodded.
An invisible war raging on,
masked as protocol,
disguised in scans and tests,biopsy reports,
surgical cuts and stitches.
Each treatment discussed...
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Categories:
angst, cancer, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
I Know I'm DepressedWhen all I want to do is cry?
Even while immersed in this high.
When all I want is to die
With little to no reasons as to why.
When all I want is to lie,
Say "I'm okay," so they won't pry.
When all I want to do is sigh
As I am aware her end is near nigh.
When all I...
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Categories:
cancer, death, depression, grief,
Form: Quatrain
Without Fear
It’s the darkness, flooding the silent room
A still so bitter it flows, splashing fears
Weary as the moments I would never presume
Pierce the heart with feelings, frantic tears
It’s the night, breathing in echoes of anxiety
Murmuring shadows who still the soul
Wiping out the silhouettes of notoriety
Following the screams of a dread’s control
It’s the dusk, ending twilight’s...
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Categories:
anxiety, cancer, fear, grief,
Form: Rhyme
A Difficult Decision
dog stricken
with cancer;
euthanized.
out of her
m i s e r y;
dog owner
hollowed out
by deep grief;
best friend, gone!
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Categories:
cancer, death, dog, friend,
Form: Other
My SpiritMy Spirit
Beneath the sunlit waves where my dreams drift and dive,
A silent shadow glides—a force both fierce and alive.
The great white shark, my silent kin, moves through the endless blue,
Its power and mystery mirror something deep and true in me, too.
I feel its wisdom echo in the restless tides of my mind,
In the hunger for...
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Categories:
cancer,
Form: Free verse
Ocean's Embrace, A Warrior's HeartOcean's Embrace, A Warrior's Heart
Shattered news, a whispered word,
"Cancer," they said, my world was blurred.
A mammogram's shadow, stark and deep,
A secret held I couldn't keep.
My chest, once strong, now felt so frail,
A storm of fear, a silent wail.
The surgeon's smile, a gentle hand,
But fear still gripped this weary land.
Yet in this darkness, deep and vast,
My...
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Categories:
cancer,
Form: Rhyme
CancerCancer, a six-letter word that doesn’t mean much to most people.
Then the word suddenly has more power than a shot to the chest.
You think, am I still breathing?
You go to the bathroom to try to pull yourself together, to share the pain with someone else.
As the phone rings, you think you...
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Categories:
anxiety, cancer, care, deep,
Form: Free verse
Any given moment, any given timegrief is a complicated feeling; it doesn’t always hold the
loss of something. But in some cases, in my case, it’s the quiet ache of dread, the feeling that encapsulates quiet certainty of impending loss, something that means more to you than anything, that in the here and now, is still with you.
Yes, you may...
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Categories:
cancer, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
The 12th Anniversary Of Dad's DeathWhen Dad got Leukemia, he put up a fight.
He took chemo but lost his battle 12 years ago tonight.
After months of taking chemotherapy, he died.
He couldn't beat cancer even though he tried.
He died less than two hours before the fourteenth of July.
He was a good provider and that's something I can't deny.
When a person loses...
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Categories:
anniversary, cancer, dad,
Form: Rhyme
In a Coat of PainI’ve knocked on every door of medicine men—
doors painted with hope.
Swallowed pills of every size and colour.
Been told,
“This one never fails.”
Another promise—
fulfilled only in disappointment.
The body that once felt mine
now feels like a stranger’s—
still wearing my name tag.
I sleep early,
trying to rinse myself from pain,
but wake up
still dressed in it.
The coat I wear?
Pain-stitched—
by a tailor...
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Categories:
anger, anxiety, cancer, caregiving,
Form: Spoken Word
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