Devotion Cancer Poems

MY DONOR DAUGHTER

It was easier to give you life than
To take it back from you.
Both were unknowns.
     I mean,
You could have...

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The cancer ward.

We sat in the waiting room, of elderly people, with cancer
we had had surgery now we waited to see if it had been...

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A Bad Man

The dark cowboy wears a black hat, 
to tell all those he comes across 
that he is a bad man, 
before he says...

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In our first years together we bought a caravan
The living conditions weren't ideal but we had a plan
We moved around a bit so the Council...

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If it is red wine 
Jason will dine 
Since it is time 
For the young to have a dirty mind 
Oh brother 
Here comes headless...

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Yarn 

Lovely…
soft material, 
skeins, in colors…
of every hue.

Beauty captured…
in both fine, 
and rough textures. 
The possibilities…
the dreams;
held tightly, 
in simple paper strips.
Wrappers showing…
measured weights,
and lengths
displayed.
The...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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My light is off, we'll start a new
It might take some time but I'll be with you
Please do not rush, enjoy your life
You are strong...

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I was lying on my couch resting,
As one tends to do when you have cancer,
When in came our cat with another scraggy cat in tow.

My...

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i won't let cancer get the best of you



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on May 13, 2019...

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I am a porcelain doll.
Fair of face, coveted by a young girl.
My smile is welcoming, cheeks are rosey,
My dress wrinkle and tear free
Each button in...

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FALLEN DARLING DYING OF COLON CANCER

bottom
fallen

callin
darlin

cell phone
bell tone

fallen
darlin

bottom
seldom

swollen
colon

answer
cancer

fallen
darlin


3/26/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©...

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Jesus Overcomes
Written: by Tom Wright
3/5/2018

In nineteen sixty eight my fields were burning,
A storm was raging, at that time, in my life. 
Adversity’s winds had left...

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Stoked in low; 
stoked in high;
Try to reach up; 
to that sky.

Your placement here; 
Has just been in passing;
It's over now; 
Life's not that harassing.

Don't...

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A sorry soul remains full
when you reek of grief and shame-
When a loved one dies,
the embers...they flame
and crimson tears fall from your eyes.

A new day...

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