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Best Opioids Poems

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A Game of Thorns - Collaboration With Maurice Yvonne

i heard a...what do they say...a spine chilling scream
...is that the saying?

a spine chilling scream
followed by

'he's dead, my G_d he's dead'

the phrase echoed 
inside the...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opioids, addiction, bereavement, body, boyfriend,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Second Chance
Flat line ...

Resuscitate, flat line, resuscitate, flat line ...
          and back again ... to sinus rhythm...

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Categories: opioids, analogy, appreciation, life, self,
Form: Free verse
The Way of the Damned
Sisyphus pushes his rock up hill
While Atlas bears his load.
Damned by the ire of capricious gods,
Forced down a toilsome road.

And so it is with the...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opioids, drug, mythology,
Form: Quatrain
After the Harvest
For you my dear, of glistening gold and hues of blue, 
A mirage created by the constructs of feeble minds.   

Our ability to...

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Categories: opioids, dedication, nature, symbolism,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Rocky Road To Success
It is so true, no pain no gain indeed
take the risk to dive into your dream
take the guts in full to grow and breed
long is...

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Categories: opioids, adventure, growth, happiness, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member My Soul
One day my soul lied to me 
It claimed the Sun would always shine
The Moon would always glow
And Love would erase Hate forever
For years I...

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Categories: opioids, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ill-Fated Model
There was a young man called Alec, who always dreamed to be a top model
Front cover of reknown worldwide magazines was his most ardent desire
Modeling...

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Categories: opioids, death, , fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life With T-Rump ***
Trump's followers act like androids
Hate fills them with his opioids
This does us chagrin
We must quickly bring in 
A flotilla of Sigmund Freuds...

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Categories: opioids, addiction, drug,
Form: Limerick
Death You Hold a Scythe Over Me
Death you hold a scythe over me
i have waited for you
there is no trepidation here
i am a paucity of patience
i welcome you
the engine is long...

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Categories: opioids, anger, meaningful, sympathy,
Form: Free verse
And Huxley Is Giggling In His Grave
& huxley is giggling in his grave

if aldous was still alive,
he’d laugh himself to death
when confronted with the new evidence
that Zogenix’s 
brand new spanking drug
“Zohydro,”
is...

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Categories: opioids, life, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crazy
Mental Health
aka Crazy

The very topic is inclusive of the word, 
that haunts our every step from birth;
until our last breath. 

Fear has no power except...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opioids, child abuse, death, discrimination,
Form: Narrative
Unspoken Truths
Towers stabbing tall into the sky,
Broadway plays that catch the eye,
finance’s center, here it lies…
Manhattan is a city that works
(but it’s filled with loud, self-important...

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Categories: opioids, city, culture, how i
Form: Rhyme
The Visionary
The Visionary

Some say we will never fly in cars
Yet, someday we may live on Mars.

I predict when all the icebergs melt
It was because the hot...

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© Dave Moore  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: opioids, death, earth, fate, humorous,
Form: Ode
Evolution of a Smile
Tea pot Patty slurps her ginger tea
Whiskey with opioids mixed within it
A cup of pleasure there for company
Poor bar stool could break in two
With Patty...

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Categories: opioids, abuse, character, conflict, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Story Land
Come with me now to story Land
Come rise and fall with our dear girl.
Pinch into her fishbowl powder
And grab a hold of her world.

Spread open...

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Categories: opioids, lonely, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs