January Cancer Poems

You may be very wealthy and powerful,
Yet you're doomed to fail like a fool,
If you are on the wrong side of history,
Where a deep sludgy...

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At Peace

A dark cloud of cancer looms on the horizon.
Will it simply pass or rest above me, and shower demise?
Or will the clouds break with...

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I am not talking about color
By the way any color can be dark
Including white, that's right
Darkness can mean horror
Death, cruelty, murder, violence
Chaos, evil, Satan and...

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(written for one who lost)

We lose a daughter, then we lose another,
yet find much sympathy that comes from all;
and know such sympathy will reach a...

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I have written this today to let my family and friends know what's going on in my life.
I am deeply saddened by where I am,...

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Purpose
By: Miracle Man
January 3, 2022

While floating through life, void of any calling,
each wakening day saw descent grow faster.
A hand reached down that could stymie my...

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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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Drove for thirty minutes to Subway Station, 
Took a train for forty minutes, 
Got into another for only ten minutes, 
reached Queen's Park.

Mornings are hectic,...

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this waning moon resembles a sliver of hope dimly lit
where the millesimal of memories of you descend over me
as i stand at your grave in...

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The day my life caved in...
January first, 5 a.m.

I have been awake
24 hours straight

He collapsed
At his birthday bash

His new shirt, stained
With greedy pain

Acrid spear
Flavor of...

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Christmas was always your favorite time of year, we’d had such fun especially when you dressed up as Santa to entertain the local children. With...

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I
knew a Tiger
who swam with dolphins
along the razor’s edge

and
meditated with a yellow bird
under his honey’s tree
in a west coast garden.

A
rare breed
from an indigenous
creed.

His
poetic wisdom
written with
zen.

He
sung...

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If Man, 

Life's cancer on earth has become,

We have to stop him from reaching other planets

For

Imperative it is, tumor's metastasis, to prevent! 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
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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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at the cancer clinic
a roomful of strangers
patients like him, like us
i see their faces and wonder
what's behind those eyes
a little glazed over
it's all too overwhelming
everyone...

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