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Placebos Poems - Poems about Placebos

Placebos Poems - Examples of all types of poems about placebos to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for placebos.
Premium Member Unpalatable
...Your smile lit up my heart as I basked in its light. And yet, love died in its shadow, shrouded in pain. The surface of trust was scratched; susceptible to lies, it started to rust. And hope t......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings,
Form: Verse



300,000 Unsmoked Ciggies
...three hundred thousand unsmoked fags since i took the plunge and stopped i did it cold turkey mates, suffered as my nicci levels plunged and dropped. no nicci patches, no nicci chewing gum, ......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, celebration, dedication, success,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Covid Times
...hospitals overflow, all are helpless fear of death enveloping other fears covid threat challenging our core concepts looking on, we can but wipe away tears no cure exists, yet placebos vanish ......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, dark, fear, light,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, hyperbole, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, career, caregiving, health, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, analogy, confusion, destiny, drug,
Form: Rhyme
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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, introspection,
Form: Prose
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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, meaningful, mental illness,
Form: List
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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, abuse, moving on, strength,
Form: Prose
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 ......Read the rest...
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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, addiction, angst,
Form: Free verse
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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, christian, miracle,
Form: Monorhyme
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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, betrayal, change, fish, fishing,
Form: Quatrain
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......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, happiness, imagination, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: placebos, nature, nostalgia, seasons
Form: Pastoral

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