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Cankers
Cankers Poems - Poems about Cankers
Plagued by Memories
...Dreams do not resolve, They only recall, relive, appall, and gall. They replay the scenes endlessly, On loop, over and over again, With the final chapter, Be it a happy, sad or left-hanging en......
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John Anderson
Categories:
cankers,
dream, memory,
Form:
Free verse
B-cup Collecting Tips on the Southeast
...the city's sick scar, fuels my descent, into this abyss, where twisted creatures writhe, in the darkness. cyclops with one eye, on the ball, three-headed puppies, sealed behind glass, strippers selli......
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Beatrix Macabre
Categories:
cankers,
art, corruption, courage, crazy,
Form:
Free verse
Atrophy
...She'd had her round in Life's blighting furnace, Where stealthy wear and age blurred her face. Dents shot where dreamy dimples had grown, Lightning smiles usurped by involuntary frown. In her......
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Hannington Mumo
Categories:
cankers,
age, allegory, beautiful,
Form:
Ballad
War Is a War Crime
...Once wars were fought with sticks and stones to flog the flesh and batter bones and conquer lands, defending thrones - though gods provoke, not one atones. The multitude (by hordes beset with......
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Terry O'Leary
Categories:
cankers,
war, world,
Form:
Quatrain
Death of a Town
...A town wheezes the last rites over its people through phlegm-ridden lungs and turgid cankers. Its blistered wounds are coated in the mud that lines its harbour and creeks. The loss of th......
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Terry Robinson
Categories:
cankers,
aubade, betrayal, corruption, death,
Form:
Free verse
Wanting You and Needing More
...you are the cankers in my mouth that i cannot leave alone. i pick and chew and spit my blood, but you are still there waiting for me. subtle insecurities link us for life. you are but a dr......
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Evelyn Rose
Categories:
cankers,
for him, identity, moving
Form:
Free verse
Rain Keep Falling
...As I walk, I often pray for better weather… God, why me dwell where the rain fall? Where the streets stream sorrowful Tears. Here, my vision blurred, but for Knowing. Hard rain, soaking my bones ......
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Gavin Joachims
Categories:
cankers,
god,
Form:
Free verse
Bending Backward
...Bending Backward We seem to bend backward Where the truth is told We seem to lean forward To coruscating gold. When conscience is dead Our blunt nerve is teased When cruelty fills the he......
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Joseph Matose
Categories:
cankers,
Form:
Ballad
Skylarks and I
...Enchanted by skylarks I surrender my time. Day's sun unabated riveted me to broiling heat, I stew in my skin. Every toxic thought Pollutes my surface as is intended, But corrodes and cankers their pa......
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L'Nass Shango
Categories:
cankers,
social, longing, cry, sun,
Form:
Free verse
Commentary On Street People
...The morning breaks in splendid light The night is ancient story still And wisdom measures only sight And sorrow cankers human will I trembled cause my sun was chill A child on cold and barren street......
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L'Nass Shango
Categories:
cankers,
caregiving, social, prayer,
Form:
Dizain
The Sickness
...You left your sickness rotting on my tongue But it seems your betrayal has only begun Infected, my throat lets no word pass their lips Your sickness has become a total eclipse Brittle, my ton......
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Rhia Madison Thomer
Categories:
cankers,
angst, lost lovebetrayal, me,
Form:
Couplet
The Call
...I am not who you call me if that's what you mean I do not flatter egos With glitz and glamor of words while the obscene Condition of people's lives tell In front of our eyes there is an invisible......
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L'Nass Shango
Categories:
cankers,
art, on writing and
Form:
Free verse