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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ButterflyButterfly
Butterfly sweet,
lovely wings of gossamer gold.
Stretch your tips to the stars,
as that is the reality of freedom.
Glide for hours above the clouds,
created by the soft fog of morning,
to find...
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Categories:
butterfly, cancer, confusion, daughter,
Form: Free verse
understandingIts been two years and i’m 15 now,
The tumour just sits there,
Waiting, staying, lingering,
Doing absolutely no harm to anything,
It’s not hurting anything physically,
Although I wish I could say the same mentally.
I’m not allowed to...
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Categories:
10th grade, anxiety, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Systematic InstitutionsBureaucratic paperwork controlling the common people. More authoritative government officials compiling statistics, data, red tape, corruption, personal information converted into its systems organization’s hard drive to derive to a decision if a individual should be...
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Categories:
cancer, child abuse, children,
Form: Bio
Systematic InstitutionsBureaucratic paperwork controlling the common people. More authoritative government officials compiling statistics, data, red tape, corruption, personal information converted into its systems organization’s hard drive to derive to a decision if a individual should be...
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Categories:
cancer, child abuse, children,
Form: Bio
Open the FloodgatesOpen the Floodgates
Huddled together like one thousand tears
Or a million moons in one sky
Hundreds of vehicles, wreckage galore
Too many sad scenes make one cry…
Cancer cells, heartache, delusions, and pain
Or a million bags in the sea
Bundles...
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Categories:
anxiety, cancer, conflict, cry,
Form: Rhyme
UnfairUnfair
Sometimes in my sorrow;
I get lost without a tomorrow.
I let my mind sit and dwell;
In this place; that's deeper than,
The deepest well.
I find no peace or comfort there;
Sometimes this life; seems unfair.
I need a rope...
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Categories:
angst, cancer, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme
OUTPeople lashing out,
People cashing out,
People looking out,
People booking out,
People wearing out,
People staying out,
People growing out,
People freaking out,
People shouting out,
People rubbing out,
People knocking out,
People shopping out,
People shooting out,
People opting out.
Time running out....
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Categories:
cancer, absence, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Alliteration
So Here Is Why So Here Is why
From: Cuba
I help you lock things down tight - order comes from your bones
Grabbing my hand, you look and say “ yep “ 98 years
I look at yours “maybe 99 for...
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Categories:
age, cancer, children, culture,
Form: Free verse
Broken GlassBroken Glass
Bits of color...
washed up on the beach.
Items that tell stories,
about faraway places,
new people, and old.
Red like roses, fine wine in winter...
Yellow like the flowers in spring.
Blue, the...
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Categories:
appreciation, cancer, creation, dance,
Form: Free verse
Uranium WonSelling uranium to Putin through CFIUS
Made less social sense than contracting syphilis
Unless to grow a Global reset chrysalis
Aiding American transformation abyss.
Putin may well employ Wyoming yellow cake
To cower Europeans with nuclear bake
Candled with cancerous cumulus...
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Categories:
cancer, dark, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
CancerlandThe usual guide posts have become unreadable,
Their stony font occluded as in an ancient riddle;
Glyphs without the Greek.
The road is marked one way, no returning traffic,
Its off ramps marked - MRI, CT, CAT...
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Categories:
cancer,
Form: Rhyme
A toxic panacea
One mans carcinogenic idea
Invade Ukraine amputate Crimea
But the tumour keeps growing
Now his sick cancer’s showing
A malignancy called North Korea!
By
David Kavanagh
...
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Categories:
allusion, cancer, war,
Form: Limerick
COVID-19 Got To GoCovid-19 got to go
I am tired of this fiasco
I am sick of this virus
In life, there is enough risk
This deadly Coronavirus
Got to go. I want peace
Sanity and great health
Everywhere. Wealth
Is not important to me
Covid-19 is...
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Categories:
cancer, death, death of
Form: Rhyme
WordsI
Words may be left
Untouched
Undeployed
Unemployed
Unused
Under utilised
In hands, mouths,
Dictionaries
Power pregnant but
Potential
II
Words with heart
Grow wings
Kinetic Energy
Kinesthetics, gymnastics,
Comic relief
Healing and Belief
III
Have you used
Neglected or Abused
Pregnant and potential
Words Today?
...
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Categories:
cancer, allegory, allusion, anti bullying,
Form: I do not know?
His Angel Gives Him Preview TipsHe has cancer and it is not good
But at night things are better
Because they give him strong meds
And the angel comes
She puts him on her lap
And takes him to the stars
Explaining to him what angelhood...
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Categories:
cancer,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Cancer Poems
Definition | What is Cancer in Poetry?
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