Get Your Premium Membership

Best Incoherent Poems

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


Premium Member Kensington Avenue
"Sweet child in time,
you'll see the line
the line that's drawn between
good and bad"

Having cold sweats again in this godforsaken ninety degree heat. Shivering uncontrollably. God,...

Read more of this work...
© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incoherent, emotions,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member A Poet Must Brainstorm
" . . . madness . . .  retain,
Which rightly should possess a poet's brain."

Michael Drayton (1563-1631) 


a writer of poems must be quite...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Incident On I-59
Headed home from a business trip
Tired, spaced out, grouchy and impatient
Pushing the limit to beat rush hour traffic
Fast closing on an old jalopy van

Suddenly blue...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, car, travel,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Life's Jacket
In life you can wear a life jacket
For this no one has to see
It's not entirely for said waves
But internally to you and me

It's when...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, angst, anxiety, day, death,
Form: Rhyme
Number 14
11 tears on the pillow
conflicted,
scattered.
Crying over things
my brain says
don’t matter.

My heart says different.

Typical,
can’t shake it though.
Odd hours each night,
trying to look
past the ceiling,
angry with the...

Read more of this work...
© Joy Nicole  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incoherent, anxiety, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Where the Wild Waves
Where the wild waves crashed
I saw you, standing upright
Blond long manes, proud lion
Arms stretched and face lit
by sun 

I stopped, couldn't breathe
Constricted, no voice, no...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, boy, boyfriend, i love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before Computers
Do you remember before computers
We actually spoke with each other
We cared whenever our kids got sick
And knew the address of our mother

Today we sit at...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, computer,
Form: Rhyme
A Truth I Speak
I am not always the smartest
Often times I appear not to be smart at all
My mind rambles 
My eyes skip words
My lips speak without hesitation
Stumbling...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, write,
Form: Free verse
The Vagrant
He stumbles on the subway
Initially I cringe
I'm put off by the way he smells
From alcoholic binge

He mumbles incoherent
I start to feel ashamed
I slide my hand...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, brother
Form: Quatrain
Disarray
Struck by chaotic lightning, 
fear of unknown fields of turmoil,
feeding my desire to break free from
the confusion I once wore like silk.

Cluttered mind full of...

Read more of this work...
© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incoherent, deep, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mornng Rain and Storm




The gentle patter of morning rain 
against the window, is like a cat’s 
padded paw tapping to come in.

The spell of sleep is too seductive...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Voices
"The voices howl in the dark frightens even the brave."
Quote by poet

Voices, do you hear them in the pitch dark.
They drum from pressure within moist...

Read more of this work...
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incoherent, wind,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Hey, Handsome...
My heart is empty, Jeffrey.
I’m standing here transfixed 
within the threshold 
of a vacant bedroom.
The air is still
but the delicate scent 
of your passing soul...

Read more of this work...
© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: incoherent, lossme, language, language, me,
Form: Free verse
Incident On I-59
Headed home from a business trip
Tired, spaced out, grouchy and impatient
Pushing the limit to beat rush hour traffic
Fast closing on an old, beat up van

Suddenly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lunch With a Textile
People who are addicted to texting are textiles.
Ever have lunch with a textile?
You find yourself looking at the top of the textile's head...
more than their...

Read more of this work...
Categories: incoherent, absence, addiction, anger, humor,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things