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.
S-m-sawyer
Poem Published
25th Sep 2022 2:49am
25th Sep 2022 2:49am
Life
My life isn't good or bad
It's an incredible and emotional
Extreme,
Full of sunrises and failed dreams
You can find me teetering on the outer edge of insanity.......its fun out there
I have sparks Of imagination that I like to share,
i am aware my reality is full of uncertainty
I try not to visit there,
I pretend I don't care......
So I drag my Weary head out of bed each day and prepare,
Put on my mask to conceal my Despair
Greet each and every person with a smile and a "hi there"
Quick...
It's an incredible and emotional
Extreme,
Full of sunrises and failed dreams
You can find me teetering on the outer edge of insanity.......its fun out there
I have sparks Of imagination that I like to share,
i am aware my reality is full of uncertainty
I try not to visit there,
I pretend I don't care......
So I drag my Weary head out of bed each day and prepare,
Put on my mask to conceal my Despair
Greet each and every person with a smile and a "hi there"
Quick...
#LifeCycle
#cancer
#SelfWorth #job
#SelfWorth #job
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17 Comments
randyjohnson
Poem Published
13th Aug 2022 8:13pm
13th Aug 2022 8:13pm
Pepper Perished
Lung cancer ended his life, that's a terrible thing to go through.
He starred as the bully who beat up Clark Kent in "Superman II".
In 1977, he starred in "Martinelli, Outside Man".
During that same year, he also starred in "The November Plan".
He guest-starred as a minister in "The Good Guys".
It's always sad and tragic when such a person dies.
Because of cancer, he's no longer alive.
He died in 2022 at the age of eighty-five.
He starred in "Evil Altar" and "The Over-The-Hill Gang Rides Again".
He was both a wrestler and an actor and his name was...
He starred as the bully who beat up Clark Kent in "Superman II".
In 1977, he starred in "Martinelli, Outside Man".
During that same year, he also starred in "The November Plan".
He guest-starred as a minister in "The Good Guys".
It's always sad and tragic when such a person dies.
Because of cancer, he's no longer alive.
He died in 2022 at the age of eighty-five.
He starred in "Evil Altar" and "The Over-The-Hill Gang Rides Again".
He was both a wrestler and an actor and his name was...
#death
#cancer
#nonfiction
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PoetSpeak
Poem Published
13th Aug 2022 6:35pm
13th Aug 2022 6:35pm
Grey Sanctity as Summer Fades
Heat wave climaxed
Last rays of summer descending
Melancholy on a perch
Waiting to swoop in
I'll be good with that
Melanoma robbed me of summer joy
10 years a survivor
Walking the shady side of the street
There's still baseball to be played
Cool evenings
The mango finally sweet
A black merino wool v-neck in waiting
Last rays of summer descending
Melancholy on a perch
Waiting to swoop in
I'll be good with that
Melanoma robbed me of summer joy
10 years a survivor
Walking the shady side of the street
There's still baseball to be played
Cool evenings
The mango finally sweet
A black merino wool v-neck in waiting
#dark
#inspirational
#summer
#fall
#cancer
139 reads
32 Comments
SweetKittyCat5
Poem Published
1st Aug 2022 00:39am
1st Aug 2022 00:39am
Is Not The Wages Of Sin Death
To the fourscore winds that wreaks havoc on earth
Manmade blessed oil casted over our inner soul drops of forgiveness in the renewal of rebirth
Is not the wages of sin death
Who without wraith within thy heart, can he or she not cast stones when reaching the thrones of divinity's wealth
I have seen the teary faces when hopes, dreams, no more chances, all seems lost
So many young lives I have been a Nightingale too from wicked choices, changed in the matter of moments with treating their elements because they had the sauce...
Manmade blessed oil casted over our inner soul drops of forgiveness in the renewal of rebirth
Is not the wages of sin death
Who without wraith within thy heart, can he or she not cast stones when reaching the thrones of divinity's wealth
I have seen the teary faces when hopes, dreams, no more chances, all seems lost
So many young lives I have been a Nightingale too from wicked choices, changed in the matter of moments with treating their elements because they had the sauce...
#spiritual
#TruthOfLife
#humankind
#philosophical
#cancer
272 reads
8 Comments
randyjohnson
Poem Published
29th Jul 2022 1:34pm
29th Jul 2022 1:34pm
Earnest II
He died one year ago today and was laid to rest.
He was a good friend and his name was Earnest.
Earnest was one of three men that I knew who died last year.
He repaired and sold computers but cancer ended his career.
He would still be fixing and selling computers if he was alive.
Earnest tried to beat cancer but sadly, he could not survive.
His friends and family are sad because he no longer exists.
He was a great man and a friend who has been missed.
Everybody who knew him was truly blessed.
He was my friend and his name was Earnest.
He was a good friend and his name was Earnest.
Earnest was one of three men that I knew who died last year.
He repaired and sold computers but cancer ended his career.
He would still be fixing and selling computers if he was alive.
Earnest tried to beat cancer but sadly, he could not survive.
His friends and family are sad because he no longer exists.
He was a great man and a friend who has been missed.
Everybody who knew him was truly blessed.
He was my friend and his name was Earnest.
#friendship
#death
#anniversary
#cancer
#nonfiction
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Her
Poem Published
23rd Jul 2022 6:50am
23rd Jul 2022 6:50am
Prize In Disguise
You don't even think about it until you have to
Usually
One day everything was just about fine
At least it was on it's way to getting there
And then it wasn't
Sometimes, when you work really hard
To get to that place you've always wanted
You expect speed bumps
And then you hit a road block
You are equipped to handle road blocks
You just thought you were done with them
I didn't expect what I got that day
I spent a lot of time thinking about it on the way home
And that night, and the next day
I think about it now
But...
Usually
One day everything was just about fine
At least it was on it's way to getting there
And then it wasn't
Sometimes, when you work really hard
To get to that place you've always wanted
You expect speed bumps
And then you hit a road block
You are equipped to handle road blocks
You just thought you were done with them
I didn't expect what I got that day
I spent a lot of time thinking about it on the way home
And that night, and the next day
I think about it now
But...
#motivational
#inspirational
#confessional
#LifeChangingMoment
#cancer
111 reads
4 Comments
Alviola
Poem Published
13th Jul 2022 4:20pm
13th Jul 2022 4:20pm
To Walk on Water
Faith is an act of lying supine,
and motionless, torso yielded,
bare skin cold in a blue and white room
of soft voices tittering about
bare skin recoiling from the idea
of a surgeon with a scalpel in hand.
When a man is carried away against his will,
hands flail and grab whatever are about,
my fingers reach for and wrap around
the door jambs of unsurrendered problems.
I am Isaac, elbows bound, bewildered
by the sight of a dagger overhead
I am...
and motionless, torso yielded,
bare skin cold in a blue and white room
of soft voices tittering about
bare skin recoiling from the idea
of a surgeon with a scalpel in hand.
When a man is carried away against his will,
hands flail and grab whatever are about,
my fingers reach for and wrap around
the door jambs of unsurrendered problems.
I am Isaac, elbows bound, bewildered
by the sight of a dagger overhead
I am...
#faith
#illness
#cancer
#determination
#pandemic
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6 Comments
randyjohnson
Poem Published
13th Jul 2022 2:43pm
13th Jul 2022 2:43pm
Final Days
I remember how much Dad suffered during his final days.
After months of receiving chemotherapy, he passed away.
Regular chemo stopped working so they used a more powerful version that made him feel worse.
It wasn't long after he received the more powerful chemotherapy that he ended up in a hearse.
When it came to being diagnosed with Leukemia, it certainly wasn't something that was foreseen.
Today is the ninth anniversary of my dad's death, he died on the thirteenth of July in the year 2013.
When Dad learned that he had cancer, he made me promise to take care of...
After months of receiving chemotherapy, he passed away.
Regular chemo stopped working so they used a more powerful version that made him feel worse.
It wasn't long after he received the more powerful chemotherapy that he ended up in a hearse.
When it came to being diagnosed with Leukemia, it certainly wasn't something that was foreseen.
Today is the ninth anniversary of my dad's death, he died on the thirteenth of July in the year 2013.
When Dad learned that he had cancer, he made me promise to take care of...
#father
#family
#death
#anniversary
#cancer
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S-m-sawyer
Poem Published
10th Jul 2022 4:47am
10th Jul 2022 4:47am
Quicksand
Sureal dream like feeling, I am trying to run but not getting anywhere , kind of like the treadmill of life.
It's like a parallel world has opened up and I am on the outside looking in, shouting at myself to move forward, but it is just a distant echo
Anxiety is creeping again, my demons are no longer my friends, I have to admit I am scared, which puts a dent in my pride, I can't even run so where do I hide, I still need to go to work but I am hurting inside,
I can't sleep at night because it is plaguing my mind, with blood shot eyes, I look at the time, as it counts...
It's like a parallel world has opened up and I am on the outside looking in, shouting at myself to move forward, but it is just a distant echo
Anxiety is creeping again, my demons are no longer my friends, I have to admit I am scared, which puts a dent in my pride, I can't even run so where do I hide, I still need to go to work but I am hurting inside,
I can't sleep at night because it is plaguing my mind, with blood shot eyes, I look at the time, as it counts...
#anxiety
#cancer
#fear
127 reads
14 Comments
Dragonnora
Nora
Nora
Poem Published
21st Jun 2022 10:15pm
21st Jun 2022 10:15pm
Spalax
Hello everyone
this is a spalax
A type of mole rat
That takes cute to the max
He is blind
But has some really nice teeth
Makes living underground
Look like heaven to me
He has special proteins
That can eliminate cells
Before they get cancerous
We could use him well
Be nice to spalax
He could cure the sick
So don't tell him
He looks like a furry di-
this is a spalax
A type of mole rat
That takes cute to the max
He is blind
But has some really nice teeth
Makes living underground
Look like heaven to me
He has special proteins
That can eliminate cells
Before they get cancerous
We could use him well
Be nice to spalax
He could cure the sick
So don't tell him
He looks like a furry di-
#happiness
#animals
#nature
#funny
#cancer
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SatansSperm
Poem Published
28th May 2022 7:32pm
28th May 2022 7:32pm
Wooden nickels
The diagnosis
was like flipping a two headed coin
and calling tails
my chances of survival
were about as good
as playing tag
in a leper colony
was like flipping a two headed coin
and calling tails
my chances of survival
were about as good
as playing tag
in a leper colony
#cancer
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3 Comments
SatansSperm
Poem Published
28th May 2022 7:15pm
28th May 2022 7:15pm
The Clinic
It started out innocently enough
as a hiccup
like the kind you get
when you drink too much
and that is one road
I had traveled many times
like the one you take to work
some of the memories remain
others are fuzzy
like driving in a fog
Then I started choking on my food
thought a lifetime of eating too fast
had caught up to me
the restaurant life will do that to you
a little bit of advice
slow down
life is short
enjoy the food you eat
The first Dr I saw ( If you could call her that ...
as a hiccup
like the kind you get
when you drink too much
and that is one road
I had traveled many times
like the one you take to work
some of the memories remain
others are fuzzy
like driving in a fog
Then I started choking on my food
thought a lifetime of eating too fast
had caught up to me
the restaurant life will do that to you
a little bit of advice
slow down
life is short
enjoy the food you eat
The first Dr I saw ( If you could call her that ...
#cancer
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