Short Cancer Poems

Short Cancer Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Cancer by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Cancer by length and keyword.


Premium Member Cancer Ward

firm by your side
my heart is shattered
where will I find the strength



AP: 2nd place 2021, Honorable Mention 2021


Premium Member Blind Spots

Blind Spots

There's always blind spots
without any fore thoughts.
Never mind consequences,
never any mending fences.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Murray the TWOT'

'BOUT SAYS IT ALL..AND HE NEVER EVEN
WORKED TO EARN THE TITLE..Watt another 
TWOT..' And don't say you were not warned.'

The Cancer Within

hot tears in closed eyes
he forgets what day it is
his cancer withers
while liagments in his soul
resist any tears.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member cancer is a killer

cancer survivor
eight years with a clean record
feeling some relief
year nine is a killer year
cancer takes body hostage
Form: Tanka


A-Not-So-Jolly Christmas

Doesn't Christmastime mean
presents, carols and cheers?
But for one it won't
be a jolly Holiday
diagnosed with breast cancer.
Form: Tanka

Lung Killer

Even though she needs
to feel it between
her lips she won't
smoke those cancer
sticks because then 
he'd be in her lungs.

Premium Member Quaff

I want a tonic
a cure all
drink up, Alice
throw the bottle vehemently
onto hard land
cancer be…  d @ # n e d

11/6/2020

Premium Member Sun Dried

I can feel my body cooking

It's drying out beneath the sun

A price to pay for such a tan

Skin cancer touches everyone
sun
Form: Rhyme

A Surgical Scissor

A surgical scissor cuts
To heal a man out of sorts
The surgeon operates the malignance 
To remove the cancer of belligerence
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Cancer

you prey on bodies
causing them to bow on knee
i ask for God's grace

while family watch me die
not resting till your job's done
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Ready To Go

mourners are crazy 
the ministers death was good 
he’d had a good life
good grief he was ninety-two
with cancer, ready to go
age
Form: Tanka

Symbolick

The keyboard symbol for Cancer
Seldom appears in The Lancer
Because 69
May sometimes define
Supper you shared with a dancer!
Form: Limerick

You're dying

You're dying.... 

I'm Cancer,
No denying.
I'm happy
No lying,
Years fighting,
Years trying,
I love that,
You're dying.

Be Grateful You Can Eat

Mother had throat cancer
Couldn't eat solid food
Liquid diet ever hungry
Put pipe in stomach.
Say thanks while eating

Premium Member Virus - A

Virulent life-form ravages its fragile host. Conclusion: excise! -------------------- (C) John C Michaels, 2014
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Hawaiian Tropic of Cancer

With visual field microscopic
Some utterly blind and myopic
Consume to the max
As a luxury tax 
On those needing help philanthropic
Form: Limerick

Premium Member August 28, 1968

August 28, 1968
Haiku: by Tom

Cancer was the match
that set my fields on fire.
Then came God’s healing.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
god
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Macabre Can-Can

the chemo…the cancer…the fungus,
bowel obstruction, pneumonia…
all joined hands, 
in a macabre can-can to kill her.

5/25/2022

Premium Member Days After My Beddian

beddian birthday 1960 i’m brighter now green eyes; few silver strands mom has cancer…sucks 10/9/2020
Form: Tanka

Premium Member chemotherapy

chemotherapy
killing some saving others
cancer treatment plan

hoping for the best
visualizing healing cure
cancer strugglers
Form: Senryu

Cigarettes

Thoughts of you
Like a cigarette to me
Addictive and consuming
But cancerous 
In every way
Yet I'd still go down
In your flame

Love You

total enchantment
the time I shared here with you
long past the times, few
 
sometimes I feel the cancer  
is in us both not just you
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Uplifting

I brace two beautiful bald heads a pair of eagles spreading their wings 10/27/2020 17 syllables - 8/5/4
Form: Senryu

Change

It is said that change is good, is this true?
Last week we heard tell of a new change
My mate will die
Can this be good?


2011

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