Farewell Cancer Poems

It is with great sadness we say goodbye.
To a truly smashing real good guy.
His name is Mike Parke who was our boss
The whole of 202...

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Oh, gentle keeper, lay me 'neath the earth's embrace,
Where willow branches whisper tales of grace,
Across the meadows, where daisies gently nod,
To my roots, to my...

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Every point in life you made a decision 
Good or bad you live and you learn 
Don't feel regret for the bridges you've burn 
Just...

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Colonoscopy


Colonoscopy,
strikes dread. It’s not too bad - when
Colon trouble free.

Jules Verne-like travel,
up your ****, spelunking through
strange, pink-ridged caverns.

Hunting for the snark,
or boojum, or polyp, who
feasts,...

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Raising Children 

Chickens, wandering across the yard... 
making soft clucking noises. 
The rooster is watching the sky. 
He knows that the day is beautiful, 
and...

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I´m sorry brother
I see you fighting
I see your battles
I see you trying
Even through your pain 
you are smiling

As time went on
His condition got worse
His body...

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Innocent email arrived today
From a friend in constant pain
The content read, then read again
Just saying hello and how are you

Exchanges between friends over backyard fence
She...

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Never did I regard windows as I do now
I learnt much of these things these past two years
We speak of windows to the soul, windows...

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Death seems near,
But I don't fear.
Who cares about dying ,
When you are beside ,where am lying.
You have held my hands tight,
Who cares about health ,am...

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Mother dearest Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost ~ May 4th, 2004

Often these days
(early May 2021)
the following genuine sentiment
Matthew Scott Harris
doth wish to...

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The abyss stares back, I’m sure this is true,
It stares into the soul, and breaks the spiritual glue,
It stares into parts you never thought were...

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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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“Barbara Iris Williams”
I lost my sister today
I knew she was a fighter and she would win
Been at deaths door before and slammed it and moved...

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I have never been this sad
I have never been this broken
I feel like everything that I have
Has gone to a very painful ending

I'm trying to...

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POEM " FAREWELL TO A KING " by martin gedge
( RIP NEIL PEART)

Sticks and stones and roll the bones
to the mystic rhythm of your soul
for...

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