Uplifting Cancer Poems

'I'M NOW IN REMISSION'


Here's a message to my illness, you can go and  yourself

I'm the master of my mind when it comes to mental...

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The path to heaven was prettier than Marie imagined.
Vibrant colors on the trees took her mind off her journey.
She was instantly soothed by the twinkling...

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She hides her pain
In the shadows, warring
Filled with hope, grace
Her heart will keep praising
Life gives her trouble
Compassion silences her
Worry and fear with kindness
She is weary...

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Next to a hospital-bed
Sorrow
Outside a hospital
Lost
Inside a hospital
Felt at home
Sometimes what we do
Means more than how we do it
Sometimes how we do things 
Means more...

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I brace two beautiful bald heads
a pair of eagles
spreading their wings

10/27/2020
17 syllables - 8/5/4...

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beyond earnest vows
and doting promises
our love will last
forever and a day
yet all avid promises
are one day shattered
in spite of best intentions

sometimes I hear its thunder...

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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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i remember you as you once were
cancer is a monster that ultimately changes so many things
you lost your battle, and i miss you ever so...

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Life has too much to offer
I'm not ready to lay down and die
My cancer will not define me
It won’t limit me in any way
This challenge...

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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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He lets me love him

When he is feeling low
he keeps his spirits high
meant to inspire me
to soaring heights

When he is hurting
he lets me get on...

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Is this my death sentence?
Will it be the end of my time?
Do I get a chance at redemption?
Am I even prepared to die?

Who decides we...

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we have cancer
the me from the you
inseparable
we can overcome
you and i as one
determined
to the power of two



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~THE POWER OF TWO~...

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You are a loud smile
In an ordinary room
Clinging to the meaning of our messes
You are the mother of boistrous concern
You make it happen for us
You...

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Squashed like two pancakes
Mammograms detect cancer
Please kiss me better

Follow up to my mammogram poem – my poor aching ‘Bristol Cities’

09~24~16...

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