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Lyric Cancer Poems

These Lyric Cancer poems are examples of Cancer poems about Lyric. These are the best examples of Cancer Lyric poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Chemo and the side notes
So the chemo got the cancer
though I have three more trips to the chair
but for this very moment there is no lump longer there

Its kinda...

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Categories: appreciation, cancer, humor,



Premium Member Standing Up To Cancer
Riding the porcelain pony
the chemo hershey squirts

Not my favorite moments
but your inspiration for song 
helps me get it along
and I come out laughing now

I am doing tea and toast...

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Categories: appreciation, cancer, encouraging, friendship,

Don'T Ever Give Up
Don't ever give up
By Michelle Morris
07/06/2021

They were having fun,
Best of friends,
Always there for each other,
Life moments to remember.

Then the big C hit a home run,...

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Categories: best friend, cancer, death

Premium Member Wanda Woman
No matter what’s in front of you 
Wanda Woman is behind you 
Wanda Woman!
No matter what’s behind you 
Butterflies gonna pull for you!

She’s a dancer,...

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Categories: appreciation, beautiful, cancer, celebration,

Burial Games
Kicked a crab apple up the road
I hate bein' told, I hate bein' told
Why don't you get with the program, son
And strap on the vigilante's...

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Categories: angst, cancer, childhood, death,



Premium Member - Grip a Deep Breath -
The word cancer is so crippling
                   ...

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Categories: angst, cancer, hope, moving

Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
Sonnets XXV-XXXII

Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions....

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Categories: bereavement, body, cancer, change,

Uterine
I'm not looking good
as if we could know what happiness is
from the grey area

in dream
fairness is a cancer
of the float
so stop
don't judge your dreams
because you...

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Categories: cancer, angst, art, courage, feelings,

This Christmas
I sat among boxes and gift wrap
and all I could do was cry,
'cause the thing I wanted most 
this Christmas
was for someone I loved not...

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© Anita Elam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancer, cry, death, grief,

Premium Member Looking Hinder
Looking Hinder
Written: by Miracle Man
10-30-2019 

 In nineteen sixty-eight,
I got an attitude adjusting.
Because at that time,
In God, I wasn’t trusting.

I traveled down roads,
clearly marked dead...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancer, christian, faith, god,

Premium Member Cancer At Twenty Eight
Cancer at Twenty-Eight
(alive at Eighty)
Written: by Miracle Man
8/29/2019

A diagnosis of Cancer,
Had me at life’s turning point.
I sought the face of Jesus,
Believing He’d anoint.
All I saw...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancer,

Premium Member Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed
(My Life B. C.)
By: Tom Wright
11/06/2006

I was drifting through life resembling tumbleweed
Encountering life’s challenges at each unseen bend.
I was just tumbling along paying things little...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancer, life,

Premium Member Nearing a Cure
Nearing A Cure
By
Tom Wright
(A 38-Year Cancer Survivor)

I pray that with each passing day
Man will find an answer,
For that dreaded disease
We’ve so long known as cancer.

Let’s...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancer, god, prayer,

I Wish I Had the Answer For Cancer
I wish I had the answer for cancer Nana.

They said stage 4 my heart fell to the floor on the fourth floor.

They said it progressed...

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Categories: cancer, death, for her,

Premium Member Cancer Was the Match
Cancer Was the Match, 
That Set My Fields on Fire
Written: by Tom Wright
12/2/2014 

The path in life that I formerly pursued,
Whether aptly marked or vegetated...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancer, jesus,


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