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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BEARD FOR A BLUE PANTRY, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bluebeard displayed his wives
Subject(s): Marriage; Cancer (disease); Beards; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A BOAT IS A LEVER, by RALPH BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After my student went to the doctor to
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


A MOTOR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavy, wet, guttural
Last Line: Now and later.
Subject(s): Air; Aviation & Aviators; Blake, William (1757-1827); Cancer (disease); Airplanes; Air Pilots


ANNIVERSARY, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When she walked by
Last Line: He likes to comb her hair.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Love; Slavery; Stillbirth; Serfs; Death - Childbirth


AT THE CANCER CLINIC, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is being helped toward the open door
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Hospitals


BAD WORD, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The next door neighbor has bought one of those above-ground pools
Last Line: For the back yard; it is what he wants his love to mean
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Grief; Love; Neighbors


BARTON SPRINGS, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh life, how I loved your cold spring mornings of putting my stuff in
Last Line: There just might be time to catch up on praise
Subject(s): Springs (water); Swimming And Swimmers; Cancer (disease)


BEFORE I DIE (FOR JEANINE LAMBERT), by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to ride once more on
Last Line: Me and hold my hand
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Paris, France; Subways


BESS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ours are the streets where bess first met her
Last Line: Again, and the streets opened, and she wished all well
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


BIOPSY, by ROBERT C. PATTERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You remembered that it wasn't like
Last Line: Like a thought before sleep
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Memory; Sickness


BLUE SOCKS, by DEBORAH STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the socks I bought for mother to bring on my visits, tan soft cotton
Last Line: Cremated in her blue socks, I wear all the socks except her blue ones
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory; Mothers


BY FIRE OR BY WATER, by KAREN BRODINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreams this terrible week
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


CANCER CELLS, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I saw a picture of the cancer cells
Last Line: I think leonardo would have in his distinterest %enjoyed them precisely with a sharp pencil
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


CANCER WINTER, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Syllables shaped around the darkening day's
Variant Title(s): "syllables Shaped Around The Darkening Day's"";
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


CANCER WINTER, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Syllables shaped around the darkening day's
Last Line: I woke up, still alive. Does that mean 'cured'?
Variant Title(s): Syllables Shaped Around The Darkening Day'
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


CANCER'S A FUNNY THING, by JOHN BURDON SANDERSON HALDANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I had the voice of homer
Last Line: So let us patients do our bit %to help the surgeons make us fit
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


CANCEROUS, by R. M. RYAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My first wife worked in a laboratory
Last Line: Must go on somewhere, killing as she lives
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Marriage


CANCERS (NOT NECESSARILY A LOVE POEM), by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cancers are a serious condition...Attacking internal organs
Last Line: Believe then...My doctor never saw you...And doesn't %believe %...In the zodiac
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Sickness


CARDINAL, by ROBERT CORDING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For a week of mornings, the cardinal came
Last Line: The mirror of themselves and begin, here, now
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cardinals (birds); Death; Grief


CEMETERY REEF; GRAND CAYMAN ISLAND, by ELIZABETH SPIRES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking down the beach, I took your arm
Last Line: Remember you with the kind that always die
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Grand Cayman Island, West Indies


COLD SUMMER, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not as bad as yours, fante
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


CONSULTING THE BOK OF CHANGES: RADIATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each morning you will cup
Last Line: If you do, you will cry forever
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cancer, Breast; Grief; Self-pity; Women


DAYS OF 1994: ALEXANDRIANS, by MARILYN HACKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lunch: as we close the twentieth century,
Subject(s): Aging; Transience; Cancer (disease); Food & Eating; Impermanence


EPITAPH ON A LADY, WHO HAD LABOURED UNDER A CANCER, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, these dear remains contain'd a mind
Last Line: His debt to worth, to excellence, and you!
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; God; Religion; Women; Dead, The; Theology


FAREWELL TO SAMSON, by WILLIAM DERGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For how many dreams %did the cancer come to you
Last Line: And then you both were dead
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory


FIRST MARRIAGE, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I made it cross country
Subject(s): Marriage; Divorce; Cancer (disease); Reconciliation; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


FOR SOPHIE, BALD IN CHURCH, by JILL PELAEZ BAUMGAERTNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The other on whom cancer
Last Line: Head - naked as an infant %still curling into its mother
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Religion


GARDEN, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will not say a divine hand has sown these spores
Last Line: Secret door that opens onto the light
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Gardens And Gardening; Pain


GLASS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of it with wonder now
Last Line: On the table, these last mouthfuls
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Glasses (tumblers); Love


HARD LOVE, by ANDREA O'BRIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the not quiet moon glow
Last Line: And for all the hard love we hold inside %for the other woman
Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Death; Love; Sisters; Women


HER LONG ILLNESS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daybreak until nightfall,
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Kenyon, Jane (1947-1995); Marital Love


HER MY BODY, by HICOK. BOB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dog licks my hand as I worry
Last Line: By this thought you are welcome / to keep it
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Cancer (disease)


IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR WINSLOW: 1. DEATH FROM CANCER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This easter, arthur winslow, less than dead
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


IN MEMORY OF ARTHUR WINSLOW: 1. DEATH FROM CANCER, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This easter, arthur winslow, less than dead
Last Line: Where the wide waters and their voyager are one
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


JENNY MARIE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning I am thinking of jenny marie, of being nine
Last Line: Larkish body skyward %and off
Subject(s): Breasts; Cancer (disease); Women


LEUKEMIA AS DREAM RITUAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is night in my room
Last Line: Eat the whispers, eat and drink
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


LEUKEMIA AS DREAM RITUAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is night in my room
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


LOVE POEM, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Love and cancer think small
Last Line: Cut me out, you could not survive
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Love; Sickness


LUCK, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just my luck, I gave up smoking last month
Last Line: And the lesion in my lung is gone
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Medicine; Physicians; Smoking


LYING IN WAIT, by TOMASZ JASTRUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cancer ward lies in wait
Last Line: Smiles and bright green eyes
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Hospitals; Waiting


MAN AND WOMAN GO THROUGH THE CANCER WARD, by GOTTFRIED BENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The man: here in these rows are wombs that have decayed
Last Line: Burns out. And sap prepares to flow. Earth calls.—
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


MEMORIAL, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a man. And here, a girl. They live
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


MEMORIAL, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies a man. And here, a girl. They live
Last Line: No hospital beds, but a lifting of metal wings
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


MISS GEE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me tell you a little story
Last Line: And a couple of oxford groupers %carefull dissected her knee
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Spinsters


MY FATHER DYING: 1984, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: He hums [or, burns] with prostate cancer
Last Line: Igniting everywhere karmaic fires.'
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Fathers; Labor And Laborers


MY FATHER'S TUMOR, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It comes to me out of nowhere, always an image
Last Line: And to kill him
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Love


MY QUARREL WITH LANGUAGE POETRY, by MICHAEL COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dulsville, as in the after-hours
Last Line: And we went out and ate them
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Friendship; Language Poetry


OFF TO THE COUNTRY OF CANCER, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It comes on.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


ONE THOUSAND SATURDAYS, by DEBORAH STEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By early adolescence, I was deposited more and more at grandma's. I
Last Line: Budding bosom and discovered it would hurt
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Grandparents; Pain


PAPER CRANES - BLACK, by JAMES KEEGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kids dying of cancer in japan kill
Last Line: This black trickster, longevity's symbol
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cranes (birds); Japan


PASSING THE TIME DURING CHEMOTHERAPY, by JANE M. MCCLELLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We could almost be taken
Last Line: And then, unplugged, we turn %toward home
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Conversation; Sickness; Time; Women


PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And my beautiful daughter
Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood


PREPOSITIONS, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are going - the motion picture theater, (direction)
Subject(s): Parents; Cancer (disease); Home Health Care; Parenthood


RAIN FALLS ON HER GLYPTIC EYELIDS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The breaking bones of your wrist and knee
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Mathematics


RED RIBBON FOR JANE, by HELEN PAPELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chinese evergreen that jane gave me
Last Line: Grows the message of the red ribbon
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Friendship; Healing; Sickness


SEEING THINGS, by KIM BRIDGFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father-in-law is going blind %because of his cancer
Last Line: Back on his pillow, telling us a joke %he finds so funny he can't help crying
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers-in-law


SEVENTH FLOOR: CANCER WARD, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the elect in this inverse hell
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Hospitals


SKIN CANCER, by JACK BERNIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Skin cancer is in the news again
Last Line: And it isn't listed under specific agents %in biological and chemical warfare
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


SKIN CANCER, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Balmy overcast nights of late september
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SKIN CANCER, by MARK JARMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Balmy overcast nights of late september
Last Line: For home that feels no different from health
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Seashore


SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You took your father %from the bronx hospital
Last Line: The vigil of your shimmering gaze
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans


SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HENRY PHIPPS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the sunday school superintendent
Last Line: Moved me on with a push.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Money


SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 3. CANCER, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes a word infects and then inflames
Last Line: Down the polluted streams and out of town
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Sickness


STONE AT THE BOTTOM, by MANUEL ULACIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: As my father's breathing
Last Line: The stone, falling, %has hit bottom
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers


STREET NAMES, by ALIKI BARNSTONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I read all the names of the streets as we drove to visit him
Last Line: And see them populated with no one I now love
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mothers; Sickness


TENDER LETTER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: C'etait a paris. She was jeanine, young, pretty and
Last Line: Maitresse. In three months she was dead of cancer
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Paris, France; Pentastichs


THE CANCER CELLS, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I saw a picture of the cancer cells
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


THE CANCER MATCH, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, you've sent both
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


THE DADDY STRAIN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two friends over a chinese lunch
Last Line: Can hatch any bird but flightless bromides.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Comfort; Death; Fear; Dead, The


THE FIRST MORNING OF CANCER, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first morning of cancer he awoke
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


THE FOUR HUMOURS, by RAFAEL CAMPO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We wondered if the rumors got to her
Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Anger; Melancholy; Cancer (disease); Doctors; Illness; Dejection


THE FUNERAL, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice
Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow.
Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials


THE GLASS, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of it with wonder now
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Glasses (tumblers); Love


THE GRANDMOTHERS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He thought, this is the way they all are
Last Line: The long, long night they must swim through
Subject(s): Grandparents; Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mortality


THE RECITAL, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sits there, staring into the keyboard--
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The


THE REVENANT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a spirit now. After that death
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The


THE SACRIFICE, by FRANK BIDART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude
Last Line: Death fought; before giving in
Subject(s): Guilt; Cancer (disease); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


THE SPANISH OF OUR OUT-LOUD DREAMS, by MARTIN ESPADA                        Poet's Biography
First Line: You took your father / from the bronx hospital
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers; Hispanic Americans; Latinos


THE TALK; FOR MY FATHER, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many years we've circled round this date
Last Line: And talk at last, though all our talk's too late.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fathers & Sons; Fear; Procrastination; Talk


THIS SUMMER, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sitting in the chair that is somewhere
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


THOUGHT, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of job when her friend died and another
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


THOUGHT, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of job when her friend died and another
Last Line: And with the other pushed me out
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


TOBACCO, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tobacco is a harmful weed, the learned
Last Line: Means an early tomb.
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fire; Health; Lungs; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


TV ROOM AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red-and-green leathered-helmeted
Last Line: With micowaved popcorn %blooming like a huge %cauliflower from its tin
Subject(s): Cancer (disease)


TWO FOR SOPHIE DOG: 2. FOR MY SISTER, SANDRA HANKINS, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: We returned from cancer's kingdom
Last Line: Has lapped up sophie dog
Subject(s): Animals; Cancer (disease); Death; Death - Animals; Dogs


WOKIKSUYE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a horse's tail
Last Line: I knew him well
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Memory


YOU AND I, HOWEVER, by MARIA MCLEOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night you whispered, I have cancer
Last Line: Of an ancient indian tribe whose name %died with them
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Relationships