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Love the sad story of Joey and Rory Feek of GAITHER fame
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Anil Deo
| Couplet |
angst, cancer, child, christian,
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A Place Called No More
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Colette Dright
| Narrative |
bereavement, cancer, death,
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To Lord Rama
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amolkumar udarwar
| Sonnet |
cancer, confidence, courage,
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Six-Word Couplet Series Encore
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Ann Gilmour
| Couplet |
boy, cancer, death, journey,
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We Were Not Promised Another Day
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Bette Bavington
| Villanelle |
cancer, animal, bereavement, best friend,
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Trapping Buddies
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Caren Krutsinger
| Narrative |
cancer,
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CANCER - REMEMBERING WHAT YOU WANT TO FORGET
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JAN ALLISON
| Free verse |
cancer, remember,
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Believe in Me
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Gordon McConnell
| Rhyme |
cancer, faith, god, trust,
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Land of Liberty
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Deborah Johnson
| Free verse |
cancer, abuse, allusion, analogy, august,
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The sickness that need not be
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David Smith
| Didactic |
addiction, allusion, cancer, care,
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Goodbye - for EAW
by M Braimah Saaka
So She knew
That declaration of love
It took me by surprise
We hadn’t spoken for decades
The cut off when I didn’t reply
Later the daily prayers she sent...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
cancer, death, love,
How's an Angel Supposed to Learn to Fly
by M.P. Shaudd
Not all Angels
Need to spread their wings and fly
Some are sent here to be loved
For way too short a time
We don't blame Jesus
But we...
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Lyric |
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Categories:
cancer, deep, fear, inspirational,
CALLING
by Line Gauthier
calling things out
hate is cancer
cancer is hate
posted on September 17, 2018...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
cancer, hate, perspective, truth,
A Nurse
by Michael E Cantrall
A nurse enters the examination room
and smiles evaporate dark clouds above
and attending shadows dismiss submerged sadness
and within this universe, she’s five years free
and clear of...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
angst, cancer, depression, fear,
MYSKILLSDEGRADING
by Khazamula Mhlongo
Days are warm
Nights are cold
Yet still I feel the heat of the Sun
Scorching my thoughts into dust
The words I pen are a soup of poetry
Your...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
cancer, conflict, confusion, nonsense,
Our Ed
by Tara Michel
Couldn’t sleep just thinking of you
Feeling of helplessness endlessly
How I want to change it miraculously
Please universe wrap him up close to you
Prayers I repeat...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
cancer,
Cancer
by Marilyn Williams
I have a friend with Cancer.
I want to wish him well.
It's not enough to sit by and
watch his family face this hell.
I have heard so...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
cancer, courage, growth, heart,
A BROKEN HEART
by JENNIFER PROXENOS
A BROKEN HEART
How many people die a day, and
And how many loved ones mourn,
How many lives change in a day,
And...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
cancer, death,
Jesus My Ever Living Source
by Gordon McConnell
The year 2017 will I not forget
at that time received really bad news
diagnosed with prostate cancer no less
shaken in my core really got the blues
But...
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Categories:
cancer, christian, health, jesus,
Star Power
by rob carmack
A Little Boy’s gun with a barometric trigger,
showed a Fat Man how to
blot out an Empire’s rising sun.
Proliferation’s need pushed
Sellafield and Kyshtym to trip chasing...
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Categories:
cancer, death, environment, pollution,
I Just Wanted to really Die
by steven jess
"Thought the saddest day of my life, was the Christmas day I lost my wife"
"But I soon found out it wasn't close"
"I lost my...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
cancer, cry, father daughter,
THE C BOMB
by Line Gauthier
There he was
In his white coat
Afraid of our reaction
As he dropped the C word
We watched it bounce off the floor
And hang there suspended
No one reaching...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
cancer, sick, surreal, truth,
GENESIS RESPLENDENT
by matthew harris
Autumnal hint faintly tinges air
finding this mortal
bewitched by blare
ring refulgent radiance,
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Free verse |
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Categories:
cancer, 11th grade, 8th grade,
Brother
by Rose Henderson
All these years have came and went.
I wish I could get back the time we had spent.
The simple playful ponytail tugs
The warm embrace when...
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Prose |
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Categories:
cancer, death, depression,
Romeo
by Norman Crocker
rancher
gently touches sick wife
Romeo...
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Haiku |
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Categories:
anxiety, beauty, cancer, family,
BLASPHEMY
by Demetrios Trifiatis
A blasphemous humanity amounts to a cancerous cell within God's creation!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
12 August 2018
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Monoku |
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Categories:
cancer, humanity, world,
nanny don't be scared
by daisy tyrrell
Awaiting the news, we feared the worst and hoped for the best.
Life was about to put my family through an unforgettable test
Mom came in, evidence...
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Categories:
age, cancer, cry, hope,
I Remember The Possibly Departed
by Lawrence Sharp
I don't, and probably won't
know the truth of her fate,
I don't know whether she left us,
but I do remember her well.
Tall, slim, quiet...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
cancer, death,
Sexy Suicide
by Trevor McLeod
The stores sold foods with pesticides
till everyone got sick.
And now the cancer's so damn bad
that everyone dies quick.
And even though we're pressed for time
we'll never...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
analogy, assonance, cancer, change,
ETERNAL
by TJ Silba
I watched you slip away and I wanted to keep you here.
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Free verse |
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Categories:
bereavement, cancer, death, faith,