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Memory Cancer Poems

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


The Bio Wars: Pain Infectious
Perpetual pain palliated by loving hands
ever lingering under bandaged wounds;
fetted rot tucked under perfumed blanket.
Covered is the massing doubt, ever growing,
Smothered; thoughts transient as dreams.
To...

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Categories: allusion, cancer, death, grief,



MAMMA
MAMMA

My mother is sadly now just a faint memory
As her passing was a number of decades ago
But always caring, maternal, and good to me

Of course,...

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Categories: age, cancer, eulogy, heartbreak,

The Bio-Wars: A Son Lost
A tumour abated alters and waits.
Pathway incised, a new one it makes.
Spreading and forming, roots growing down.
The moment’s now here, a mighty rebound.

Battle exhausted, the...

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Categories: allegory, cancer, death, grief,

Stay strong and hopeful
I wrote this for a friend who went through a harrowing Cancer experience and survived the disease and the treatment. Chemotherapy is insanely challenging. I'm...

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Categories: cancer, encouraging, health, inspirational,

Premium Member The Color of Dignity
Written in tribute for those who are fighting in pink, and every color against cancer, also in memory of my dear friend Reenie, (Irene Aleman),...

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Categories: cancer, color, confidence, death, death



The Deceased Man
The false apparatuses are presented on the tiny stage,
The surgeons want to shape up your archaic days.
The larger your poisons are,
The more lethal is their...

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Categories: cancer, death of a

Premium Member Doctors Said No Chance
Doctors Said No Chance
Then A Miracle Happened
Miracle Man
10/14/2023

I sometimes sit, reevaluating past living,
for only used clock do I know for certain.
Some clock was wrapped in...

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

The Memory
The memory of us makes me smile
The memory of us four
The memory of us three
The memory of us two
And yes, I smile.

I smile because when...

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Categories: angst, bereavement, bible, cancer,

Visiting a Friend
I'm glad I came to see you today,
since we last met, my life has been in a little disarray,
but there was something about the orange...

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Categories: best friend, boyfriend, cancer,

I'Ll Never Call Him My Family Again
Someone who lives a life full with sin
You should never love them or claim them to be kin

They may daily claim to be a spiritual...

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© Gu Jendayi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, anxiety, betrayal, cancer,

Loving Care
Caregiving is not for the weak
Giving care trying not to be bleak
Medicine changes, pill bottles around
Changing of diapers without even a frown

Pain and regret
As they...

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Categories: age, appreciation, cancer, care,

Still Breathing
When someone you're close to and love dies, it doesn't get better with time. 
That love solidifys and rots in the center of your heart....

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Categories: bereavement, best friend, cancer,

Premium Member Thought Police
Thought Police

Be careful what you say, 
be careful who you say it to. 
It might be heard... 
by someone that does not like it!

They will...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancer, abortion, abuse, addiction, allah,

A Butterscotch Flavored Poem For Constance
there was a little girl 
who saw me and came up to me
and said, 'you are that unseen guy 
who writes poems' 
i nodded my...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cancer, child, death,

The Menace
Night 3
It’s still in my garden.
It’s back with a vengeance.
I can it see it there, lurking:
face black and white, its tail mocking.
Three nights in a...

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Categories: cancer, analogy,


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