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Opioids Poems - Poems about Opioids

Opioid

...One life, two lives three lives, four 
I'm the one you feared knocking knocking at your door.
It's me your friend, I'll make you feel good
I've now made my way to your side of the hood.
I'm used ...
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Categories: opioids, addiction,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHobart Harlot

...Had chasing salacious not sparked her curious 
     Outcast student wouldn’t have bothered to goad
     Beguile fellow fifteen year old, sordid suggested
     Accompany her on dirty double date, g...
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Categories: opioids, 10th grade, animal, best
Form: Acrostic



Premium MemberDeathscript Jh 39

...escape
Opioids
  folly...
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Categories: opioids, addiction, america, confusion, drug,
Form: Haiku

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 tired, hurting
parts not available to replace
i d...
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Categories: opioids, anger, meaningful, sympathy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStory 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 the doors
In her chapel of fear,
And pray with u...
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Categories: opioids, lonely, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberFlorida Man 3

...
A Florida man bought a stool.
The seat? A bit hard on the jewels…
Now he takes pills to soften,
and he sits there less often;
this Florida man is no fool!


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Categories: opioids, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberRoot Decay

...it hurt so much that she prised out the molar in despair

with a corner post missing pain oozed from wounded flesh

one cavity exchanged for another but rawness lay bare

she tried painkillers ...
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Categories: opioids, pain,
Form: Quatrain

2020

...Gleaming gadgets galore...
Aquarius is speaking new lore.

Drive-thru getting longer
Hunger pains growing stronger

Pleasurable engagements and easing pain on fleek
Mindless stimuli and opioid...
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Categories: opioids, age, america, culture, social,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCrazy

...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 that which we give it. 
Knowing tha...
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Categories: opioids, child abuse, death, discrimination,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTrump-Et, the Song of Freedom

...Trump-et, the Song of Freedom

Sound the call, the vote is in. 
God gave us a New York Real Estate Business Man, 
to run Our Country.
Mr. President.
Surely we are, or-were in great trouble, 
f...
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Categories: opioids, allah, america, atheist, christian,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberArthritis

...Wrinkled forehead creases as he looks at me
From the burgundy sofa where he lives most days
Free of things like water bills and car payments
He lies down to eat and drag slowly on a cigarette

T...
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Categories: opioids, addiction, pain, sick,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGreed

...Being motivated by greed is like being addicted to opioids
greedy people are well aware their rapacious desire for wealth 
or material possessions is ultimately destructive, yet they keep 
wanting...
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Categories: opioids, metaphor, money, people, perspective,
Form: Haibun

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 sun we felt.

And then it's not a surprise
yo...
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Categories: opioids, death, earth, fate, humorous,
Form: Ode

Premium MemberSecond Chance

...Flat line ...

Resuscitate, flat line, resuscitate, flat line ...
          and back again ... to sinus rhythm ... to life.
               Three times my heart stopped, and thri...
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Categories: opioids, analogy, appreciation, life, self,
Form: Free verse

A Current News Spawn

...I found a sphinx in my backyard
And a manatee turned up dead
I raised a flag, all went to one knee
A hissing package fell on my head!

I was harassed by a baby squirrel
My turkey got doubled up...
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Categories: opioids, character, history, humorous, imagery,
Form: Quatrain

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