Cancer Poems
Invisible Light
by Nathaniel Phillips
Bearing the weight
Another day
Another moment of loss
Grief speaks in the silence
When joys feel as a set up for sorrow
Carried away, lost for yesterday
How do I face tomorrow
Absence the presence, the haunting
Parched by memory, thirsty, unquenchable wanting
......
Would you?
by Sumit Maurya
When the sun goes down
And my shadow will leave my side
I will be alone in the dark just like a blind
Would you not calm my mind?
When the mud goes thick
And the path goes hard
When my legs will swell
And I will fall apart
I will look for your hand I will wait for your sound
Would you not calm my mind?
......
Fuck Cancer
by Shay Grace
It's a cold dark day in February, the year 2021
The last year was chaotic and definitely a tough one
It has been full of the deepest darkest lows
knocked down with the toughest blows
Ending the year with a bang your images were colorful
I was naive to think that you were untouchable
I never saw this final round of cancer coming
You’ve been clean for years, this was just so sudden
......
a turtle born on the wrong side of its shell
by Bogdan Dragos
He had a big belly
but he wasn't a fat man
he wished he was a fat man
his daughter was four
and she told him that he
looked like a
turtle
born
on the wrong side of
......
Yellow Field of Wheat
by Ghairo Daniels
YELLOW FIELD OF WHEAT
The Angel of Death skims blacker than tar
A skeletal knock overturning a bowl of oats
Smelling of frankincense and ashes
To carry you to a yellow field of wheat
Where you will dance radiant light
Haloed and free
......
Invisible Light
by Nathaniel Phillips
Bearing the weight
Another day
Another moment of loss
Grief speaks in the silence
When joys feel as a set up for sorrow
Carried away, lost for yesterday
How do I face tomorrow
Absence the presence, the haunting
Parched by memory, thirsty, unquenchable wanting
......
Yellow Field of Wheat
by Ghairo Daniels
YELLOW FIELD OF WHEAT
The Angel of Death skims blacker than tar
A skeletal knock overturning a bowl of oats
Smelling of frankincense and ashes
To carry you to a yellow field of wheat
Where you will dance radiant light
Haloed and free
......
Dad
by Crystal Nelson
The pain never left since my dad died,
Tears fall every night as I try to hide.
Lost and alone, I struggle to survive,
Wish I could talk to him and feel alive.
My mind slipping away, how do we survive,
All I have left are memories to revive.
My heart stopped beating as he laid at rest,
Can't escape the thoughts of mortality and final test.
Wish I could see his face one last time and attest,
That my dad, my hero, the very best.
......
The filthy cigarette
by Saleh Ben Saleh
I am that slender lady in sexy white sheets,
my figure is smoking hot when my body touches the heat.
I’ll give you moments of pleasure and a fill of nicotine,
but around your healthy lungs I’ll weave my tricotine
I am a silent killer
causing deadly disease,
but people ignore the warnings and signs of expertise.
......
Would you?
by Sumit Maurya
When the sun goes down
And my shadow will leave my side
I will be alone in the dark just like a blind
Would you not calm my mind?
When the mud goes thick
And the path goes hard
When my legs will swell
And I will fall apart
I will look for your hand I will wait for your sound
Would you not calm my mind?
......
