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Best On The Side Poems

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


Twelve Steps On the Side
nicotine
isn't clean
water's the cleanliness
causing some loneliness
use to be dirty
clean after thirty...

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Categories: on the side, addiction,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member On the Side
On the Side
                     Authored by...

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© Chuck Keys  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the side, confusion, death, depression, sad
Form: Free verse
An Ode To the Dog On the Side of the Road
Oh how it struck me so..
the dog on the side of the road..

You have all been enslaved by self gain and judgement...
Why waste time?
What is...

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© Cody Blake  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the side, animal, appreciation, death,
Form: Ode

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Premium Member Err On the Side of Caution
Err on the side of caution,
For often it seems to me,
If something is overly hard to do,
Perhaps it's not meant to be.

If there are too...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the side, angst, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Verses On the Side of the Book
Many people swim in an empty pool and decide that pools are not fun. Is that really a true statement? Will time end? If you...

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© Greg Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: on the side, adventure, angel, art, beauty,
Form: Burlesque
Erring On the Side
If caution is the side on which 
You are supposed to err,
It’s possible to overdo it,
So you should beware.

It may be better letting time
Or nature...

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Categories: on the side, life,
Form: Rhyme



On the Side of the Road
A car's pulled over on the road 
And hidden by the door,
A child lets out an urgent stream
Within the traffic's roar.

The parent gets him back...

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Categories: on the side, car, child,
Form: Rhyme
On the Side of the Road
On the side of the road
I lay in a box
I wake up every morning to rummage for food
I stand on the sidewalk beggging and entertaining...

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Categories: on the side, happinessme, me,
Form:
A Man Sat Upside Down On the Side Ways Wall
A man sat upside down on the side ways wall surrounded by paintings of his distorted pain and his unconscious pessimistic mind. 
Cracks in the...

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Categories: on the side, dark, death, depression, loneliness,
Form:
Girl On the Side
you had a girl, but i was young and didn't care.
never knew the meaning of breaking up a happy home.
i thought one day ill have...

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Categories: on the side, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On the Side of Caution
(aka CAN NEVER BE UNSAID)



i’ve lived my life so far
with one simple guiding adage
it’s served me well i think
though i’ll never truly know

these days it...

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Categories: on the side, fear, heart, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Bit On the Side
A BIT ON THE  SIDE


They strolled together with wistful strides, 
their marriage wows a step behind, 
and all the absent qualities in tow, 
the...

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Categories: on the side, beautiful, betrayal, cheer up,
Form: Sonnet
On the Side Streets
Staying in a neighborhood 
Where locals live and shop
Gives a taste of life beyond
Where all the tourist buses stop.

Discovering a small cafe
And breakfasting outside 
Opens...

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Categories: on the side, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Can You Not Err Me On the Side of Goodness
oh, hold me and stifle me
and make me be still
let me rail and 
tell and tell and tell;
then gently say
"it will be o.k."

be a friend...

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Categories: on the side, friendship, introspection, life, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Living On the Side
I have lived on the side for so long
A life full of drudgery and misery
A victim of unfortunate birth  
To a lowly stock of...

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Categories: on the side, allusion, anger, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse

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