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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CANCER (DISEASE) Matches Found: 87 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 |
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