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Best Overdose Poems

Below are the all-time best Overdose poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of overdose poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Warriors
This one is for the broken,
hiding behind invisible bruising.
For the forgotten and the ones 
who have forgotten us,
like the misunderstood misfits.
Who howl at the moon,
look...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdose, assonance, dedication, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Categories: overdose, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Poetry Numbs the Pain
One day we will be, forever silent.
Where would we be without poetry?

As a child, I buried my heart,
drained from games death would play -
in adulthood,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdose, childhood, emotions, life, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Highway of Regret
The storms are raging on the rollin' sea, and on the highway of regret
Yes, I played around, was unfaithful to you, I'd change it all...

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Categories: overdose, death, depression, drink, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Best Medicine
If laughter's the best medicine
I think I've had an overdose
It's coursing through my body
From my head down to my toes

I'm worried about my Ass
They say...

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Categories: overdose, funny,
Form: Rhyme



Innocence
Whom the horse is looking for
Every day in the scarlet breeze
It comes and taps at the door
Have you forgotten your blue cheese

Is it the one...

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Categories: overdose, childhood, color, innocence, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
A Screened-In Porch
The thunder booms; the rain, it pours.
We're half inside and half outdoors.
A screened-in porch brings Nature close
But not enough to overdose.

And so we sit and...

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Categories: overdose, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Melancholy Me
Melancholy me, since Kelly's gone away
Far beyond the sea, and out of every day
Stage by stage I've wept, but finally, I see
What I must accept;...

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Categories: overdose, dedication, drug, grief, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Adoration of Nature

Adrift in silent tranquillity, admiring a
Backdrop of nature's charm and grace.
Clarion cloudless sapphire skies above
Depict the state of calmness in my mind.
Eyes admire an abundance...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdose, angst, appreciation, nature,
Form: Abecedarian
Father Is Gone Again
Sixteen years ago he left me,
I was only two years old.
He chose a life of crime instead,
At least that's what I've been told.

He never tried...

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Categories: overdose, absence, addiction, dad, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member With Feigned Apologies
I wrote what I thought was a 'poem' some years ago,
but it lacked rhythm, rhyme, and had no smooth flow.
Its imagery was blurry, and it...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdose, anger, muse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trick
(THE GHOST)

In the naked eye,
Pure death approaches!

Incredibly hollow, kick the bucket long ago
No, whiff nor smell when “THE GHOST” is around
Abuses the whiteness, in which...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdose, abuse, bullying, death, fear,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
From Darkness To Stardom
Every child is born into this world crying,
Little did this poor child know, tears would fall for the rest of her life.
Born into a world...

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Categories: overdose, angel, change, dream, pain,
Form: Epic
Premium Member An Ode To E. A. Robinson
Whispers of talent are carried on New England breezes
Dickinson, Hawthorne, and the Irvings’ son Washington
Though I sense a special connection to all of these
None inspired...

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Categories: overdose, dedication, on writing and
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Jazz
His hand is strafing the castellation on his trumpet, the valves moving up down up down like deranged pistons under the random machine gun fire...

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Categories: overdose, appreciation, art, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Haibun

Book: Shattered Sighs