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Oncology Poems - Poems about Oncology

After The Fall
...In the sameness of a day. Reaching to far can lose your way. In one blink of the future lost. You learn the devastating cost. You pick yourself up off the floor. Not knowing what is now in sto......

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Categories: oncology, allusion, assonance, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Young Oncology Nurse
...The young R.N.'s humility was almost noticeable. No one knew how lavish her life had once been. She had survived luxury which might have spoiled others into sloth-like ways. The grandeur of he......

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Categories: oncology, women,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Overturning Oncology
...studiously sterling students comparing, contrasting, connecting, complaining, conniving truthfully turning tricky troublesome troubles into intriguing innovative idealistic ideas providing peacef......

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Categories: oncology, cancer,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member An Oncology Ward
...I am absolutely disoriented while I wait. I am unable to reclaim the time I have lost. I was entirely sure of my counterpoint. Being warned led to her bewildered epithet. Something......

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Categories: oncology, anxiety, cancer, caregiving, children,
Form: Rhyme
The Metaphysics of My Muse
...Metaphysics is - a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being. It includes ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology. THE METAPHYSICS OF MY MUSE ......

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Categories: oncology, 11th grade, beauty, birth,
Form: Rhyme



What a Wonderful World
...The lyric rings true But it’s hard to sing it through What’s left are glimpses of glory From the original story The canvas now tarnished and tainted and twisted Sing it to children who sleep on ......

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Categories: oncology, care, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Then the World Died
...for Jessica Orchards recurring: Two twenty year olds on dissimilar paths undaunted by love’s tapestry approaching exclamatory yields of apricot musk and peach marmalade their ......

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Categories: oncology, allegory, appreciation, growth, lost,
Form: Free verse
No Smoking Day
...Smoking at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust By Stanley Russell Harris The new mad author & A Poetry Soup honourable mentioned poet Once I smoked like a trooper. As that’s what I did be. Now I do no......

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Categories: oncology, abuse, body, cancer, drug,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Even the Angels Wept
...Her voice echoed through the hallways Of the pediatric oncology hospital ward When people saw the young girl who sang these songs They were stunned and they were floored She sang unaccompanied ......

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Categories: oncology, angel, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Beautifully Awful Singing
...She always sang a bit way off-key, She couldn’t hit a single note; She mixed up words from different songs, Some getting caught down in her throat; She sang songs from our favorite bands That I ......

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Categories: oncology, love, sad, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Teaching An Old Dog
...All I remember is going into the garage to get the snow shovel. I am not even sure how much of the driveway I managed to shovel. Apparently, I was lying in the snow for several hours before one of......

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Categories: oncology, life, child, christmas, me,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Four Foot Caskets
...They shouldn’t need to make caskets only four feet long Pediatricians shouldn’t have to specialize in oncology Scarves shouldn’t be worn by ten year old girls To protect their bald heads as caused......

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Categories: oncology, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Butterfly
...How quickly vanity will undo a man sitting in an outpatient ward, his, no minor ills yet feeling worse for the treatment than its need. Aware the ticking of the clock, exchange of amiable w......

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Categories: oncology, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oncology
...Oncology waffle-soled Nikes travel by at a good pace and I think of chalky lace-ups and starched white caps, the apron-tied uniform of benevolent angels so gently shushing visitors. a memory co......

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Categories: oncology, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gut Wrenching
...Five years ago he joyously visited the maternity ward; now it is the oncology floor. Kindergarten will not be in the cards this year - just lots of tears. She has the same bald head she bore w......

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Categories: oncology, death, sad, missing, child,
Form: Free verse

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