Poems about Cancer
#cancer
Poems about cancer, here you'll find poetry written by those affected by cancer. Poems about having cancer and the treatment process, and poetry about the grief and pain of losing a loved one to cancer. Also poetry of hope; about raising awareness and surviving cancer.
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Joybell
Joybell
Bumped 22nd Nov 2020 7:45am
16th Nov 2020 9:03pm
16th Nov 2020 9:03pm
Regret
Overloaded with Information
Google adds confusion
Failing to gain insight
Feeling alone and preoccupied
Sweat covers her fingertips
Desperately she scrolls
Searching for details
her anxiety takes control
Unsure of what she'll find
Regret adds tension
Conflicting facts confusing
Potentially devastating impact
Overcome with guilt
Wondering why
she was lazy
Disrespecting her body
Awareness
Pink ribbons the sign
A simple exercise
Five minutes the...
Google adds confusion
Failing to gain insight
Feeling alone and preoccupied
Sweat covers her fingertips
Desperately she scrolls
Searching for details
her anxiety takes control
Unsure of what she'll find
Regret adds tension
Conflicting facts confusing
Potentially devastating impact
Overcome with guilt
Wondering why
she was lazy
Disrespecting her body
Awareness
Pink ribbons the sign
A simple exercise
Five minutes the...
#sadness
#regret
#hope
#death
#cancer
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
16th Nov 2020 2:07am
16th Nov 2020 2:07am
watercolour Jesus
Water glides across the paper
colour on brush
forms Jesus
holding a teddy bear
I don't know what it means
with death looming over her
perhaps she's looking for comfort
in spirituality
or perhaps I'm reading too much
into questions I don't know how to ask
because I'm too scared
to truly want the answers
This moment is peaceful for her
paint on paper
Jesus holds a teddy bear
unfinished between the pages of a book
Perhaps it's a symbol
or a metaphor
or a hope for miracles
that...
colour on brush
forms Jesus
holding a teddy bear
I don't know what it means
with death looming over her
perhaps she's looking for comfort
in spirituality
or perhaps I'm reading too much
into questions I don't know how to ask
because I'm too scared
to truly want the answers
This moment is peaceful for her
paint on paper
Jesus holds a teddy bear
unfinished between the pages of a book
Perhaps it's a symbol
or a metaphor
or a hope for miracles
that...
#death
#philosophical
#cancer
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
9th Nov 2020 2:52am
9th Nov 2020 2:52am
hangman's C
I watch her live like grains of sand
slipping through your fingers
mixed with shards of glass
and memories of conch shells
broken coral and reddened sun-kissed skin
She's as much a part of you
as the salt and sand you carry
unable to dust your hands free
of the ocean inside you
and I watch the way you drown in it
gasping for breath in the sleepless hours
between her sleeping and waking
knowing that today
could catch her last breath
in its wet hands and drag her soul
out into the sun-bright sea
I...
slipping through your fingers
mixed with shards of glass
and memories of conch shells
broken coral and reddened sun-kissed skin
She's as much a part of you
as the salt and sand you carry
unable to dust your hands free
of the ocean inside you
and I watch the way you drown in it
gasping for breath in the sleepless hours
between her sleeping and waking
knowing that today
could catch her last breath
in its wet hands and drag her soul
out into the sun-bright sea
I...
#love
#family
#death #cancer
#death #cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
25th Sep 2020 9:10am
25th Sep 2020 9:10am
Broken Serenade
Starting from the ending
A long and drawn out farewell
Not to say goodbye just another way to tell
What words to console
Finding closure for my heart
When grieving is like an open wound
Time does its best to mend us
As blood ferments on the skin
It's not so potent as the first incision
But pain accompanies the joys intoxication
Beneath every smile is an unspoken tear
And all I can say is that I wish you were here
Did it take...
A long and drawn out farewell
Not to say goodbye just another way to tell
What words to console
Finding closure for my heart
When grieving is like an open wound
Time does its best to mend us
As blood ferments on the skin
It's not so potent as the first incision
But pain accompanies the joys intoxication
Beneath every smile is an unspoken tear
And all I can say is that I wish you were here
Did it take...
#love
#mother
#death
#heaven
#cancer
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paperstains
Poem Published
21st Sep 2020 9:28pm
21st Sep 2020 9:28pm
Found Your Obituary Online
They gave your ashes to the sea
I whispered goodbye into the salt air
still wondering why you didn't tell me
it came back
I whispered goodbye into the salt air
still wondering why you didn't tell me
it came back
#grief
#death
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
18th Sep 2020 5:54am
18th Sep 2020 5:54am
The Unforgotten
Writing like the illustration of a whisper
The outlined cries of an unspoken heart
Every reflection perceived through the eyes of another
Is both the truth and the lie of its image
Something gets unlocked in me
Layered beneath this depth of perception
Reading ourselves into inkblot literature
What is the ash but a forest that took flight in sparks
Only to cascade on us
Like the precipitation of a former flame
Carried off in a still life flood of vacant memory
...
The outlined cries of an unspoken heart
Every reflection perceived through the eyes of another
Is both the truth and the lie of its image
Something gets unlocked in me
Layered beneath this depth of perception
Reading ourselves into inkblot literature
What is the ash but a forest that took flight in sparks
Only to cascade on us
Like the precipitation of a former flame
Carried off in a still life flood of vacant memory
...
#mother
#death
#memorial
#IMissYou
#cancer
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LennyBlue
Poem Published
14th Sep 2020 3:14pm
14th Sep 2020 3:14pm
Unlisted Number
Don’t follow me like you know me,
You don’t and never will.
Big disrupter of all good things,
I’ll fight you with all my might.
Soft peddles of my gardens growths needs me for the prize,
It’s cycle is short,we are not alike
Hanging around like your on a mission,
I know your there
It’s too soon it’s not fair
If a prayer each day can keep you away
Pack up your shit not today
Not sure how you got my name
My number is unlisted
Your losing this game
I’ve made it through another day.
You don’t and never will.
Big disrupter of all good things,
I’ll fight you with all my might.
Soft peddles of my gardens growths needs me for the prize,
It’s cycle is short,we are not alike
Hanging around like your on a mission,
I know your there
It’s too soon it’s not fair
If a prayer each day can keep you away
Pack up your shit not today
Not sure how you got my name
My number is unlisted
Your losing this game
I’ve made it through another day.
#cancer
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Poems4me
Poem Published
23rd Aug 2020 3:59pm
23rd Aug 2020 3:59pm
That Cancer Bitch
Can't even begin to imagine the hurt and pain that you're dealing with
Sitting here wishing I could erase that cancer bitch
It's sad how this disease affects the entire family
Forcing people to deal with tough challenges
That never really crossed their minds things they thought would come at a later time.
It's a hard thing to deal with
Facing that cancer bitch
I know that times are hard for you right now but you're trying to remain strong
That's why I'm here with you to remind you to keep holding on
Know that I'm in your corner and will always...
Sitting here wishing I could erase that cancer bitch
It's sad how this disease affects the entire family
Forcing people to deal with tough challenges
That never really crossed their minds things they thought would come at a later time.
It's a hard thing to deal with
Facing that cancer bitch
I know that times are hard for you right now but you're trying to remain strong
That's why I'm here with you to remind you to keep holding on
Know that I'm in your corner and will always...
#sadness
#strength
#cancer
#emotions
#fear
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10 Comments
Southerndelicacy92
G. Deb
G. Deb
Poem Published
15th Aug 2020 00:51am
15th Aug 2020 00:51am
Craving a Cancer
#sex
#astrology
#cancer
149 reads
8 Comments
cloventongue89
Poem Published
14th Aug 2020 6:31am
14th Aug 2020 6:31am
From The Gray
Sitting here in retrospect
Who'd of known I'd see this day of night too soon
In my perception on this side of eternity
I'm through asking the question why
As I deal with this and find a way to move on
Accepting the reality of what it means to die
In memorial and celebration
This dichotomy of the in between
What is this life but our illusion
And yet what is real is a sight unseen
Learning to redefine it all through the lens
What feels like in theory,...
Who'd of known I'd see this day of night too soon
In my perception on this side of eternity
I'm through asking the question why
As I deal with this and find a way to move on
Accepting the reality of what it means to die
In memorial and celebration
This dichotomy of the in between
What is this life but our illusion
And yet what is real is a sight unseen
Learning to redefine it all through the lens
What feels like in theory,...
#sadness
#mother
#death
#birthday
#cancer
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PittinixDesigns
Poem Published
10th Jul 2020 3:04am
10th Jul 2020 3:04am
I Just Can't Put You Through This
I was doing just fine alone with my illness
Why did you have to come into my life?
This is happening at the wrong time
I have brain cancer, it’s an incurable disease
Medical science can’t do anything more for me
How could you love me when I’m dying?
My condition is worsening day by day
What will you do when my body starts to deteriorate?
I shan’t look the same way I do now.
Will you be able to cope with the situation?
It will be an unpleasant sight to behold
If I lose my sanity, I couldn’t appreciate your love
You say no...
Why did you have to come into my life?
This is happening at the wrong time
I have brain cancer, it’s an incurable disease
Medical science can’t do anything more for me
How could you love me when I’m dying?
My condition is worsening day by day
What will you do when my body starts to deteriorate?
I shan’t look the same way I do now.
Will you be able to cope with the situation?
It will be an unpleasant sight to behold
If I lose my sanity, I couldn’t appreciate your love
You say no...
#love
#grief
#death
#illness
#cancer
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ReggiePoet
Reggie
Reggie
Poem Published
6th Jul 2020 11:42pm
6th Jul 2020 11:42pm
Robin's Eggs
The nest upon my window sill
Has robin’s eggs unhatched
This fucking cancer rages still
I’ve fought it ‘till the last
The fucking food was tasteless crap
Until this weekend came
That’s how I know they’ve called it quits
And “hospice” is it’s name
I hold my family no ill will
‘Cause they’re as tired as me
But I regret they’ll get the bill
Long after I’m set free
I guess it's time that I gave in
And push this little button
It must be morphine, makes me grin
First time since I was shut-in
I...
Has robin’s eggs unhatched
This fucking cancer rages still
I’ve fought it ‘till the last
The fucking food was tasteless crap
Until this weekend came
That’s how I know they’ve called it quits
And “hospice” is it’s name
I hold my family no ill will
‘Cause they’re as tired as me
But I regret they’ll get the bill
Long after I’m set free
I guess it's time that I gave in
And push this little button
It must be morphine, makes me grin
First time since I was shut-in
I...
#death
#cancer
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