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Best Side Effect Poems

Below are the all-time best Side Effect poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of side effect poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: side effect, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member President Tweety Bird
I’m Tweety Bird and ‘I tawt I taw a puddy tat,’
But what I mean, Trump’s nightmares fear a democrat,
I’m as yellow as your hair, tweet,
Feel...

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Categories: side effect, bird,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member The Blight Before Christmas
The UK just sanctioned a jab
That scientists made in a lab
My best friend, Maxine
Just had the vaccine 
Which left just a tiny green scab

Her husband...

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Categories: side effect, christmas, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Eternity Is But a Moment
It was a late springtime day, and the bluebirds all were singing,
Outside the classroom window, while the bells all were ringing.

I had a lucky window...

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Categories: side effect, age, education, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Evensong
For my sins and everything I ever did or sought to be, 
Contempt and dying to be clever in unfathomed pools of sadness, 
I plumbed...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: side effect, introspection, life, loss, lost
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy Tale
Once Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia

This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them....

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Categories: side effect, fairy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Personal Trainer
husband 
didn’t pay attention when she started to change her look,
after all, she’d been saying how she wanted to for a while &
it seemed to...

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Categories: side effect, life, husband, body, husband,
Form: Free verse
Side Effects
she told me she was living with cancer
not dying from it and she would beat it
sometimes people don't realize the promises
they are making when they...

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Categories: side effect, cancer, emotions, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faking Feelings
Faking feelings is what you do best
while touting trust and all its values.
And adopting hope's many guises,
you deny vulnerability.

Loneliness divides reality
into darkening shades of despair.
And...

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Categories: side effect, angst, depression, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Blank verse
Today's Doctor Visit
I had my shot today
it made me feel a little gray
a side effect of medication
a doctors creation

Given by the nurse doth bestow
my husband holds my...

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Categories: side effect, anxiety, health,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Homeless Home
A place constructed in scents and colours
but walled by the bile of human character.
Chilling air leaving behind an itchy mind
and everything good in it, possesses...

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Categories: side effect, anger, anxiety, bullying, environment,
Form: Free verse
I Will Tell You
You ask me why you need God, yes God with G capitalized
Whose only begotten Son’s precious life was sacrificed
I will tell you in simple words,...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: side effect, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Love Mistress
An imported imperfection of his delayed conclusion of opinions leaves me restless.
I know I may not be the prettiest, I know my body may not...

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Categories: side effect, boyfriend, devotion, girlfriend, life,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Bureaucracy
Bundle of rules elongating the short distance between a problem and its solution
Unnecessary layers compulsorily placed on a mounted ladder with very few steps
Road expectedly...

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Categories: side effect, angst, business, career, social,
Form: Acrostic
Toothpick Wrists and Gay Thoughts
I was born 6 lbs. 9 oz. with blond hair and blue eyes. 
I was also born gay
I am anorexic. 
And you would think people...

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Categories: side effect, anxiety, depression, gender, ,
Form: Prose

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