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Crippling Crawling Cancer Cells

A tautogram poem

By Denise LarkinPublished 4 years ago • Updated 4 years ago • 1 min read
Crippling Crawling Cancer Cells
Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Crippling, crawling cancer cells,

climbing crazily,

clicking, clipping, crookedly,

cancer-consuming, corrupting,

confounding, creating chaos.

Crushed, clashed, cancer cells

crazily, clustering, cohabiting,

causing catastrophic changes,

cursed cancer, cindered.

Caring, curing, calling clinics,

cutting cancer's cruel conquests.

Constricting, consuming, ceremoniously.

Careful consideration, constant caution,

can counteract cruel conditions,

corrosion, collapsing cancers,

crushing curses, concluding.

Collective courage, challenging chaos,

compassionate crying, cringing,

cancer cells crafted,

creating callous challenges.

Cancers' careful control,

cutting cures,

cautious caring,

can combat cancer cells,

casting cancerous crippling.

Chemotherapy, clinical checks,

considerate, candor, course,

conquering challenges

can construct cancerous cells,

contributing, conquering,

careful chores,

craving, crimeless, clutching,

creeping, cancers crawling,

crooning, cohabiting, credulous

cancerous cells crack,

captured, caved, cantankerous,

clearing cancerous cells.

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About the Creator

Denise Larkin

A writer of a BA with honours (2.1) in Arts & Humanities recently gained a Creative Writing Master's Degree. She writes poetry, fictional short stories, and is the author of the Time to Run series, Darkness and The Non-Human.<aT.

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    Written by Denise Larkin