Melanoma Poems

If You Find Shade

...You've got it made if you find shade
When it is hot and sunny,
For boiling rays can spoil your days
In ways that aren't funny.

Aside from sweat, you might just get
A dose of melanoma
Or letha...
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Categories: melanoma, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Another Ministry of Truth Caught Then Lies volume 3

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The National Science Foundation outsources to Colleges, today's mental assassins to secretly 
censor you using "wisedex" 
among other things. 
"Wisedex" is
in the shadows of academia, 
a dee...
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Categories: melanoma, art,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberA Little Lemon Slice

...A little lemon slice
To spritz upon the fish
There on a bed of rice
A tasty little dish
Presented to entice

A little lemon slice
Or oft it was a lime
Tequila splashed on ice
Hooray, it’s pa...
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Categories: melanoma, life,
Form: Monchielle Stanza

The Madonna

...my presence was needed
the announcement echoed thru hospital halls
which meant the medical team assembled
but that kind of expertise
was not why i was called
my lot in this equation, a signature...
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Categories: melanoma, appreciation, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTrending Grayer

...That evening trending grayer than the rest
  He'd set out for the shore line's last request

Pre-cancer no one ever called him quitter
  Prime of Life arrived melanoma bitter...
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Categories: melanoma, cancer, life, water,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberWe'Re All Going To Die--What the Heck

...That cancer has ravaged my family, it is true
My mom first with melanoma at age forty-two,
Bone cancer took my Uncle Cladie for a ride
Until the pain caused him to commit suicide,
My dad lost his...
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Categories: melanoma, cancer, death, family, history,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhat My Mother Means To Me

...In December 1951, I turned ten years old-- 
	Harry Truman was president of the United States, 
		The Korean Conflict raged on a faraway peninsula,  
			The Golden Gate Bridge closed due to high wi...
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Categories: melanoma, love, memorial, mother son,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberIf I Could Change the World

...If I had the power to change the world
I would make it blind to color, size, and race.
I would have people see each other’s spirits.

If we could see spirit instead of flesh 
We would be able to...
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Categories: melanoma, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Bully

...The venomous bite
Distant, but ever so bright
A nerve doth stricken
A heart so sickened

Melanoma like stature
A rapture like creature
Ruthless and mean
Cunning and keen

Held back three ye...
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Categories: melanoma, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse

Too Much Sun

...Too much sun
 
it has been a hot day the sun 
is an enemy spying at me 
through cracks in the curtains.
 
The sun has given me melanoma
Twice and now it tries again
To lure me outdoor.
 
No...
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Categories: melanoma, age, allah, allusion, blessing,
Form: Blank verse

Green Tea

...Green Tea


Oh what joy it seems to me
Drinking my early morning tea.

The healthiest beverage on the globe
Cures many diseases I've been told.

Lemon juice in hot tea cures and prevents can...
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Categories: melanoma, cancer, drink, green, health,
Form: Rhyme

Jimmy Page Was Here On July 4th

...As the sun sets
A hot wind like this
Does not belong in downtown Lansing
But here it is
Speed-boating down the Grand River grinning and wearing Ray-Bans

My wife and I
We hold down our pouncin...
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Categories: melanoma, happiness, music, nostalgia, peace,
Form: Free verse

A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertime

...wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
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farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
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wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid t...
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Categories: melanoma, june, nature, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku

Eileen

...Eileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and a healthy glow
having both outer and inner beauty to bestow,

Second oldest...
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Categories: melanoma, for her, mom, ,
Form: Rhyme

Myopic Microscopic

...Myopic Microscopic

Microscopic myopic;
Melanoma Glaucoma;
Abnormalities.

Part of my wishes;
Song group became suspicious;
Serendipity.

Whippy da do die;
There must be another way,
My g...
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Categories: melanoma, humorous,
Form: Haiku

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