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Best Uncontained Poems

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


The Uncontained
he parlayed a condom full of nouns
in bold thrusts of the quill
for the para structuralist cadres
many of them freeway orphans
who won't even read a stoplight
on...

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Categories: uncontained, crazy, howl, humanity, slam,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member First Cherubic Chance
This road is snake-like except
for the crusty scales of an intestinal
late dusk. A boy treaded on the 
lane tracks lean and nomadic...
burnt shoulders grilled and...

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Categories: uncontained, mystery, uplifting
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Within the White Noise
Have you ever pondered
shadows are made of 
softness, they are not 
hard surfaced like 
those of us existing 
outside of the white noise

unable to grasp...

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Categories: uncontained, mirror, muse,
Form: Free verse
Gutter Pavement Runway Flight
They elude me now ...words
Drinking befits a drowning man possessed
Swimming off this broken page
Baton winning in a relay race
I breached the ribbon sliced with chest
Joy!...

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Categories: uncontained, addiction, appreciation, day, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zombies
Zeal uncontained, needing quarantine
Oscillating rigor mortis, feigned or real
Madness, the only description saleable
Both for actors and non actors alike
Invested in the runaway train consumers
Enjoy at...

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Categories: uncontained, bereavement,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member Can You Feel It
I have spent,
              a lifetime,
       ...

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Categories: uncontained, addiction, anger, scary,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Hidden Woman
I’m tired of trying to tame her
Of needing to blame her
Of trying to keep her colors
Locked within the lines
The sad confines
Of this life

She is there
Always...

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Categories: uncontained, how i feel, identity,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Beauty
She stared into the mirror,
wished she could utter the Queen's request.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall...." 
What was the use?  She was not beautiful.
Nor was...

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Categories: uncontained, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Mad Defining
Maddening thought to process such a word
Mad definition defining more than anger
Mad upset feeling fever flushed climatic danger
Mad mangled minor class offense verse major
Madly suggestive...

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Categories: uncontained, analogy, confusion, crazy, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Android
An android phone, put simply, is death.
Its blue light reveals corpses in faces
as viruses and viral videos spread uncontained contagion.
Men walk dead, necks broken, hungry...

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Categories: uncontained, death,
Form: I do not know?
Physical Addiction
My chest is raw and there are bite marks on my soul
My hands are curled and my overworked libido is dying

And I know

I’m at the...

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Categories: uncontained, passion
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inferno
Inferno... 
     rage uncontained...
          within;  
     ...

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Categories: uncontained, analogy, love, metaphor, passion,
Form: Verse
The Bold Silhouette
Plunging through rough terrain,
Head held high,
Leading others with passion uncontained,
Blazing clearly in the scattered blue sky.

No matter how relentless,
The obstacles assail,
He will defy nature,
And therefore...

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Categories: uncontained, life
Form: Heroic Couplet
Beauty and Diviersity
A baseball game is fun to watch and cheer
For nine innings are spectators all geared
Pitchers and batters, runners and fielders
Excitement uncontained as umpires yell there
Batter...

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Categories: uncontained, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Roman Honeymoon
An interest in past life and extinct culture became her passion
Led her ultimately to take up a research project in Archaeology
After studying the course of...

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Categories: uncontained, love, romantic,
Form: Rhyme

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