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Best Constraint Poems

Below are the all-time best Constraint poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of constraint poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Worth More Than Millions
Jesus gives me directions
To love as He has loved
With a sincere compassion
That knows no conditions

This love of His has no limits
It goes beyond worry and...

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Categories: constraint, christian, faith, god, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Glutton For Your Poetry
I'm a glutton for your poetry
I feast on every line
Indulging my deep desire
for rhyming treats so fine

I'm a glutton for your poetry
control is not in...

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Categories: constraint, love, poetry,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Abyss
In deepest, darkest depths of my despair
I find myself without a saving grace. 
A pendulum of pain prevents my prayer
from rising upward through the dead...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: constraint, angst,
Form: Sonnet
Human With Unlimited Muse,
The inspirations domain into your very soul
Verses lay as the main thoughts of the console
Every moments recorded as the treasures of your word
Prestige left the...

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Categories: constraint, people, tribute, people, muse,
Form: Rhyme
A Thrill Seeker - Part 1
A THRILL SEEKER (PART 1)

He is a sick man with no life that is running around in a world that cannot be lived.
All but not...

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Categories: constraint,
Form: Epic



A Tale of Tears
Tired of talking too much
I wish to rest my rhymes.
Now is time to give ears
To your titanic tale of tears.
The heart that was under constraint
Needs...

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Categories: constraint, desire, destiny, life, love,
Form: Alliteration
Childhood
When I was a little kid
I used to wonder what the world would be like,
I never counted the possibility
That I would see a head on...

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Categories: constraint, 11th grade, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
A Humble Man - Charles Wood
A humble man is what I am before you.
You see, I am not worthy to say…
“Sir, may I have your daughter’s hand,
But please yield to...

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Categories: constraint, love,
Form: Free verse
Mother and I
Mother shares all, sacrificing 'til barren.

She and I are one, united in breath and dust,
the atoms and spirits spinning, fragments of failures,
curiosity and constraint.
I was...

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Categories: constraint, allegory, life, prayer,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Washed Free
Across the snow covered hill
the shadows lay before me, still
I search for words in the sunlight
But there are none, as if it is night
Maybe another...

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Categories: constraint, nature, seasons, words,
Form: Rhyme
Just Stating the Obvious
There’s God and there’s the devil
Man’s caught in the middle
Who’s good and who’s evil,

There’s Heaven and there’s hell
More beautiful is the earth
Can anyone otherwise tell,

There’s...

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Categories: constraint, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paint a Life
Pray tell, to whom do I owe this life of mine?
Mother—always an Angel divine,
Wife—for four decades, a Saint,
Daughters—love unfeigned.
Life’s Good, so
Paint
with a glow
Foregoing restraint
Splash your...

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Categories: constraint, celebration, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watercolors
Watercolor memories paint
 Enchanted mountains in my mind,
 And sunshine's glow upon my face

 Time to reflect and reacquaint
 With friends so treasured and kind,
...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: constraint, mountains, sunshine,
Form: Verse
Storm Water
Hardness softens under serpents eyes of gold.
Concrete becomes her;
Crystallising lakes of,
Oceans of,
Serenity

What may we envelop with our softness
When our branches cannot reach the sky
For fear...

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Categories: constraint, abuse, allegory, betrayal, boy,
Form: Free verse
Transgender a Story Untold
I am transgender, a soul untamed,
Seeking solace, my true self proclaimed.
In this journey, I've found my role,
Here's what I need to be made whole.

Acceptance, a...

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Categories: constraint, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs