Best Placebos Poems
How To Be a Doctor...As retiring physician, allow me to give
Some suggestions on how to both doctor and live.
You have finally finished the studies required.
You're a doctor at last, but in debt deeply mired.
Wi......
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Categories:
placebos, career, caregiving, health, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Baited...that fish patiently wait
at interface of water and fate
burping bubbles for their troubles
water bugs and mosquitoes
unwilling, unsettling for nibbling placebos
acting on a deeper, more hungry drive......
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Categories:
placebos, betrayal, change, fish, fishing,
Form:
Quatrain
Twenty-Seven Truths, Part I...1. You have the illness you have always been fearful of. The cause is your fear. You will never sleep, and tea and yoga are only placebos. Welcome to hell.
2. You cannot evade exactly anything you......
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Categories:
placebos, meaningful, mental illness,
Form:
List
Hot, Sweet, Sweltering, July...Hot, sweet, sweltering July
When all you can hear are distant hummings
Of inside fans and flies incessant drumming
Fans rattling inside, flies outside amongst the grasses.
Time seems to stand so ......
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Categories:
placebos, nature, nostalgia, seasons
Form:
Pastoral
To a Closed Mind...Here I am: a product of coffee shop
bricks and apparition footsteps-freakishly
paradoxical, hungrily swallowing placebos
disguised as Penicillin.
I harbor words deep into my hingeless ri......
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Categories:
placebos, happiness, imagination, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
And Thus, Silence Reigns...A single word was all it took
To shatter my resolve and make me open a door
A single word I could only hear
Because I've been popping placebos for months
Blocked from your voice, but not your w......
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Categories:
placebos, abuse, moving on, strength,
Form:
Prose
Effete...My dear Miss Peach how lovely!
Your table boasts so fair
You've chosen the finest bubbly
Best porcelain plates and crystal ware
Your handpicked guests are perfect
They know just what to say
T......
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Categories:
placebos, hyperbole, identity,
Form:
Rhyme
Something Real?...*This poem is intended to be read centre aligned*
See
a
penny,
pick it up,
And all the day
you’ll have good luck,
Or use it to purchase private thoughts,
An evening of thrills and s......
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Categories:
placebos, angst, introspection, sad
Form:
Placebo...The will of God, e'er take
me to my knees,
your Spirit, so astringent
cleansing, free!
Ne'er given to imply
a church of greed
attendance, and deny
as fate takes fee!
What is the Godly why
where the......
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Categories:
placebos, christian, miracle,
Form:
Monorhyme
That Placebos Too Big To Swallow...Cok the hammer, drop the blotter, And we will swim through muddy water
Just drop all your defenses, Don't build fences, blur your senses
Watch the corner, your my spotter, We'll walk right through ......
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Categories:
placebos, analogy, confusion, destiny, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
White Noise...Living in the city
There are lots of urban joys,
But the one thing we put up with
Is an awful lot of noise.
Though we tune it out by habit
And just rarely come unglued,
There are nights when ......
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Categories:
placebos, city, sleep,
Form:
Rhyme
Little Pills...We are all too eager to place the little pills on our shaking tongues.
Academic idiots force their good intentions, as they lay in bed with corrupt chemical pushers.
Our TVs are inundated with ad......
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Categories:
placebos, addiction, angst,
Form:
Free verse
SENIOR COMMUNITY DRUG OPERATIONS RAN BY DOMESTIC TERRORISTS DEALERS INC...SNOW BIRDS HAVE A WHOLE NEW MEANING MASSIVE CRIMINAL CONVOYS TARGETING SENIORS THE CONVOY OF HASTE CORRUPT DRUG DEALERS ARRIVE TO FLORIDA TARGETING SENIOR COMMUNITIES TARGETING DISABLED AMERICANS MOS......
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Categories:
placebos, allah,
Form:
Naat
Defining Happiness...How would I begin to define happiness?
Am I the right scribe to ask?
I've struggled with depression longer than I haven't now
But I noticed something today
And it's not the first time I've noti......
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Categories:
placebos, introspection,
Form:
Prose
Me In the Flesh...I don't know how else to put this
its taken me so long to do this
I'm falling asleep and I can't see straight.
My muscles feel like a melee body is curled in a u shape
I put on my best but I'......
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Categories:
placebos, depressionme, me,
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