Crippling Crawling Cancer Cells
A tautogram poem
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.
About the Creator
Denise Larkin
A writer with a BA in Arts & Humanities (specialism Creative Writing), studying for an MA in Creative Writing, writes poetry and fictional short stories. The author of Time to Run, The Island of Love, Darkness, and The Non-Human.
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This tautogram poem is incredibly powerful in its use of language to describe the devastating effects of cancer. The repetition of the initial "c" sound throughout the poem gives it a haunting quality, and the images of cancer cells crawling and consuming create a vivid and unsettling picture. The poem also offers a glimmer of hope in the form of cutting-edge cures and collective courage, reminding us that there are ways to combat this disease. Thank you for sharing this beautiful yet heart-wrenching piece, Denise Larkin.