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Cancer poems including poetry written before neurosurgery, during chemotherapy, radiation therapy and after achieving remission.
After the achievement of remission, there are survivorhood issues to face, including the continuing consciousness of the fragility of existence. And, on the practical level, living with brain damage and degraded vision as a consequence of the downside of radiotherapy. Some of the poems, including the praise poem for Saddam Hussein, were written at a time when it seemed that cancer had returned, and that the probable outcome would be death. This cancer poetry selection is part of the Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. The online poems include school poems, city poems, nature poems, war poems, death poems and assorted other poems. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness. |
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• DIAGNOSIS: cancer: diagnosing cancer. • MAINLINING: gallium count. • EYE SURGERY: eye surgery, surgical operation. • CANCER: cancer, facing death. • RED HOT TEARS: grief. • CHEMOTHERAPY: chemotherapy. • HOLISTIC MEDICINE: holistic medicine: a cynic's view. • METHOTREXATE: chemotherapy with methotrexate. • FIFTH CYCLE: chemotherapy routine. • RADIOTHERAPY ANTICIPATED: radiation therapy imagined. • RADIOTHERAPY INFLICTED: radiation therapy: the actual experience of being irradiated. • CORNFLAKES: life or death, cancer's consequences. • DYING WE CAN DO TOMORROW daughter (not yet two years old), Christmas. • THE ACTIVE CHILD: daughter (very young and very active), parental responsbility. • AFTER I WAS DIAGNOSED: surreal poem. • THIS WAR IN IRAQ: selfishness, indifference to the wider world. • THE CHEATED DAUGHTER: guilt, nurses. • RECIDIVISM: cancer returns. • WALKING AROUND MY CITY. Facing cancer. • SADDAM IS GUILTY: Saddam Hussein: praise poem. • NINE-MONTH PARACHUTE DROP: death: the mechanism of my death. • ICE CREAM BRAIN: brain damage, chemotherapy side-effects, radiotherapy side effects. • MY CONCEPTUAL SIEVE: brain damage, chemotherapy side-effects, radiotherapy side effects. • BLIND MEN CAN STILL EAT MARZIPAN: looking on the bright side. • ON HIS BLINDNESS: blindness, going blind. • PROGERIA: autism, counting our blessings. • CANCER PATIENT: cancer: achieving remission. • TWELVE HOURS DISTANT: survivorhood. • ARC OF LIGHT: mortality. A poem about living a mortal life in a mortal world. • SURVIVORHOOD: life after cancer, survivorhood. • ADVICE FOR CANCER PATIENTS: advice on diet hygiene safety etc. |
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school poems |
city poems |
nature poems |
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war poems |
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death poems |
other poems |
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CANCER MEMOIR: read the full text of the brain cancer memoir Cancer Patient free online. Initial problems, diagnosis, neurosurgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and the achievement of remission. Read free online or buy as a paperback book from Amazon.com.
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CANCER BLOG: following remission, brain cancer seems to have returned. Further investigations follow. The author investigates the mechanism of his death. The author's deteriorating vision turns out to be the consequence of radiation therapy, not the return of cancer. Blog entries deal with survivorhood issues including dealing with degraded vision and with brain damage caused by chemo and radiation. The online entries are part of the literary miscellany This Is A Picture Of Your God, available from Amazon.com.
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CANCER POEMS: poetry about having cancer, about pressing on with life, about facing death and thinking about mortality, and about suffering damage from radiation therapy, this being in the form of brain damage and partial blindness. Don't miss the praise poem for Saddam Hussein, SADDAM IS GUILTY
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