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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Workforce
So they have decided,
It's come right from the top,
Governments reaction,
My benefits should stop,
They think that 2 years of grief is enough,
But no matter how hard a couples enough,
You've had a long...
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Categories:
anxiety, cancer, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Borrowed TimeHolding on tight
to each moment before
The test results come
forever unsure
Reprieved for a day
condition unchanged
“Your numbers are stable
— but cancer remains”
(Ronald McDonald House: Phila. Pa, October, 2024)
...
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Categories:
cancer,
Form: Rhyme
ReputationsReputations are fickle things,
Fragile things,
Valuable things,
Sometimes cursed things,
Sometimes blessed things,
Hungry things,
Misunderstood things,
Life giving things,
Life taking things,
Not always friendly things,
Not for the faint hearted things,
That always come with strings,
That can turn us into out of control...
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Categories:
cancer, absence, addiction, age, allusion,
Form: Monorhyme
Categories:
cancer,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
age, cancer, irony,
Form: Senryu
Threads of TomorrowFate weaves the fabric of our fleeting days,
Like tangled threads beneath a weaver’s loom,
I pull the strings, but do they shift or stay?
Or does the hand that guides belong to doom?
I wonder who decides the...
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Categories:
anxiety, cancer, conflict, confusion,
Form: Quatrain
The Last DayGene stood. Skyscraper demanding. Cold steel.
Thirty-five hard years. Over now. Just like that.
Corrugated box. Family photo. Timex watch.
Bitter coffee.
Stale sweat.
He walked out. Sun blaze. Fireball. Air thick.
Sidewalk. Familiar corner. Man there.
Black skin. Weathered face....
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Categories:
cancer, grief, jobs, loss, psychological,
Form: Narrative
My Road
My Road
By: Miracle Man
9/26/2024
My road in life, by choice, I have traveled,
without any vision of where it might end.
Many miles were smooth, some were graveled,
with unforeseen things I had to contend.
But early on my miles...
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Categories:
cancer, god, health, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
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
Specific Types of Cancer Poems
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