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 Yesterday 2:10am
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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17 Comments
SatInUGal
Kumar
Kumar
Poem Published
13th Jun 2021 00:00am
13th Jun 2021 00:00am
6/12/21 senryu#2
shift in plans today
someone I love diagnosed—
we spent the morning
BEING MEDICINE
someone I love diagnosed—
we spent the morning
BEING MEDICINE
#illness
#healing
#cancer
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randyjohnson
Poem Published
12th Jun 2021 5:26pm
12th Jun 2021 5:26pm
Norman's Demise
I had an uncle. His name was Norman Greene. He died twenty years ago today on June 12, 2001. He was fifty-six. Norman smoked three or four packs of cigarettes each day. He died of lung cancer. A doctor misdiagnosed Norman. He told Mom that Norman had TB. A few days later, we were informed about the misdiagnosis, and that Norman actually had lung cancer. Norman died about two weeks later.
Norman and I had something in common. Schizophrenia. My type of Schizophrenia is Paranoid Schizophrenia. It's possible that Norman's Schizophrenia was a different type than mine. Norman's...
Norman and I had something in common. Schizophrenia. My type of Schizophrenia is Paranoid Schizophrenia. It's possible that Norman's Schizophrenia was a different type than mine. Norman's...
#death
#MentalHealth
#cancer #nonfiction
#cancer #nonfiction
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Razzerleaf
Poem Published
19th May 2021 10:30pm
19th May 2021 10:30pm
I only had a week to say goodbye
Part 1 (If I don't laugh I will cry)
I saved her mind to a memory stick
so I can reboot each time she gets sick.
Her version control says don't ask me
and she's started to sing in MP3.
Each time she tries to remember a name
she asks for a password and starts again.
Old memories don't seem to play anymore
because she's lost the driver for her MP4.
Sometimes little thoughts keep coming back
but it's usually just the audio track.
I'm beginning to think her file is corrupt ...
I saved her mind to a memory stick
so I can reboot each time she gets sick.
Her version control says don't ask me
and she's started to sing in MP3.
Each time she tries to remember a name
she asks for a password and starts again.
Old memories don't seem to play anymore
because she's lost the driver for her MP4.
Sometimes little thoughts keep coming back
but it's usually just the audio track.
I'm beginning to think her file is corrupt ...
#grief
#mother
#death #cancer
#death #cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
9th May 2021 10:16am
9th May 2021 10:16am
A Melody of Prayers
Writing you again
My heart is like a bottle lost at sea
Words spoken to the void
The space that resides between where I am and where I long to be
Every word a line to heaven
Following in the footsteps of your legacy
Your wisdom echoes, outlining the way
As you speak inside my memory
A part of you still lives here
Taking up residence in my mind
If ever their was a hero of the faith
I want you to know that you are mine
Caught up in the relapse of post traumatic ache
You were part of what held me together
Now...
My heart is like a bottle lost at sea
Words spoken to the void
The space that resides between where I am and where I long to be
Every word a line to heaven
Following in the footsteps of your legacy
Your wisdom echoes, outlining the way
As you speak inside my memory
A part of you still lives here
Taking up residence in my mind
If ever their was a hero of the faith
I want you to know that you are mine
Caught up in the relapse of post traumatic ache
You were part of what held me together
Now...
#grief
#mother
#death
#memories
#cancer
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marina2020
Rain Woman
Rain Woman
Poem Published
30th Apr 2021 2:01pm
30th Apr 2021 2:01pm
6 Months
The last 6 months have been hell
I went from worrying about my first year of college
To worrying about my dads health
6 months has changed my life
Knowing the doctors can’t do anything else hurts
Knowing I’m so far away right now makes me sick
I just want to see him before he’s gone
I really don’t want to think about that
I’ve cried the majority of the past 24 hours
I don’t know how anyone takes this news
How do I cope with the idea
That my dad won’t live to see me turn 20
Or graduate college
Or get married
It hurts
I went from worrying about my first year of college
To worrying about my dads health
6 months has changed my life
Knowing the doctors can’t do anything else hurts
Knowing I’m so far away right now makes me sick
I just want to see him before he’s gone
I really don’t want to think about that
I’ve cried the majority of the past 24 hours
I don’t know how anyone takes this news
How do I cope with the idea
That my dad won’t live to see me turn 20
Or graduate college
Or get married
It hurts
#sadness
#father
#family
#cancer
#NaPoWriMo2021
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
25th Apr 2021 2:14am
25th Apr 2021 2:14am
Anticipation
I never left that waiting room
...everyday I long to see you again
...everyday I long to see you again
#grief
#mother
#death
#memories
#cancer
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marina2020
Rain Woman
Rain Woman
Poem Published
25th Apr 2021 1:30am
25th Apr 2021 1:30am
His Music
Some days I just listen to my dad’s music
The 70s, 80s, and 90s mostly
Even though I am so far away from him, it helps
I didn’t think I loved his music this much
But now every time I listen to it, I’m reminded of him
It’s going to be hard when he’s gone
And I have to listen to it all by myself
I hate the uncertainty of his cancer
No one has any idea how long he will live
What he listens to is now what I listen to
Growing up with these songs has forever connected them to him
I remember that I use to get so sick of him always putting on...
The 70s, 80s, and 90s mostly
Even though I am so far away from him, it helps
I didn’t think I loved his music this much
But now every time I listen to it, I’m reminded of him
It’s going to be hard when he’s gone
And I have to listen to it all by myself
I hate the uncertainty of his cancer
No one has any idea how long he will live
What he listens to is now what I listen to
Growing up with these songs has forever connected them to him
I remember that I use to get so sick of him always putting on...
#sadness
#father
#cancer #NaPoWriMo2021
#cancer #NaPoWriMo2021
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marina2020
Rain Woman
Rain Woman
Poem Published
18th Apr 2021 1:29am
18th Apr 2021 1:29am
What If?
What if?
That’s what I always ask myself
What if something happens
What if something goes wrong
What if I have no control
What if I can’t stop this
What if I get that call
What if I can’t reach anyone
What if no one tells me what’s going on
What if he never leaves that hospital
What if I’m not home in time
What if I never get to build things with him again
What if I never get to listen to his music with him again
What if I never hear his voice again
What if I never see his smile again
What if I never see him again
That’s what I always ask myself
What if something happens
What if something goes wrong
What if I have no control
What if I can’t stop this
What if I get that call
What if I can’t reach anyone
What if no one tells me what’s going on
What if he never leaves that hospital
What if I’m not home in time
What if I never get to build things with him again
What if I never get to listen to his music with him again
What if I never hear his voice again
What if I never see his smile again
What if I never see him again
#sadness
#father
#cancer #NaPoWriMo2021
#cancer #NaPoWriMo2021
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UnleashedHeathen
Poem Published
21st Feb 2021 8:14am
21st Feb 2021 8:14am
Cancer
Mostly unaware of each
Angry thing you say, as if it won’t
Leak into my bloodstream and force my
Imagination to second-guess those
Gangly feelings I push aside, and
Not seeing the sickness I feel is
Acceptance with denial;
Not knowing that I’ve spoken up
Too late
Angry thing you say, as if it won’t
Leak into my bloodstream and force my
Imagination to second-guess those
Gangly feelings I push aside, and
Not seeing the sickness I feel is
Acceptance with denial;
Not knowing that I’ve spoken up
Too late
#depression
#abuse
#hurt #cancer
#hurt #cancer
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marina2020
Rain Woman
Rain Woman
Poem Published
24th Jan 2021 4:05am
24th Jan 2021 4:05am
Cancer
No one prepares you for this
The sleepless nights
The holding back of tears
The shear will it takes to not break into a million pieces
No one tells you how hard it is
To see your dad in pain
Too weak to walk
Relying on you to act like everything is fine and normal and will be okay
Of all the things in my life that have brought me to the edge
This is it
This might nearly kill me
A single word that has forever haunted me since it killed my grandfather when I was seven
A scar so deep, it never fully healed
And now it has a hold of...
The sleepless nights
The holding back of tears
The shear will it takes to not break into a million pieces
No one tells you how hard it is
To see your dad in pain
Too weak to walk
Relying on you to act like everything is fine and normal and will be okay
Of all the things in my life that have brought me to the edge
This is it
This might nearly kill me
A single word that has forever haunted me since it killed my grandfather when I was seven
A scar so deep, it never fully healed
And now it has a hold of...
#father
#parent
#family
#illness
#cancer
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
15th Jan 2021 5:08am
15th Jan 2021 5:08am
Face The Music
I
thinking of you
memories like leeches
you are the thief of thoughts
you are a beautiful haunting
I miss you...
II
collectively
we all know loss
familiar is the face of another's stranger
scars like finger prints
pain, a mutual acquaintance...
III
fingers like the language of music
every note, a universal dialect
the same song
a different ear
a different meaning...
thinking of you
memories like leeches
you are the thief of thoughts
you are a beautiful haunting
I miss you...
II
collectively
we all know loss
familiar is the face of another's stranger
scars like finger prints
pain, a mutual acquaintance...
III
fingers like the language of music
every note, a universal dialect
the same song
a different ear
a different meaning...
#grief
#mother
#death
#memorial
#cancer
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