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Best Uncooked Poems

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


Premium Member Obsession With Truth
To hunger for truth,
as lies feast on perception
sitting at the table with hope and desire
Where vanity is served in a cold glass of pride
until humility...

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Categories: uncooked, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wacko Jacko
Clear the track, here comes Jack
Or Johnny Canuck to some
To a bunch of friends on Poetry Soup
He's that Wacko Jacko bum!

He's Canadian eh! From way...

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Categories: uncooked, silly,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Broadway Airs
The eternal buzz of city anglers
brash, angry, hornets ever selling egos.
Shrieking anxiety laced, analog, syllables, idiotically.
Hoping against hope, urchins, desperations end,
strumming ancient chords in vain...

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Categories: uncooked, introspection, life, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Soup Goulash
My love for all on Poetry Soup
like a tasty broth group.

Cook and stir

* 2 pounds lean Lebanon ground
in Dutch oven over medium-high heat,
breaking the Lebanon...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: uncooked, inspiration, thank you,
Form: List
Poetry Knows
Poetry Knows

Where poet goes
when poet needs
A line of prose

Which word comes best 
on top of rest 
before its born 
in womb of next

Where uncooked prose
in...

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Categories: uncooked, allegory,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Where Do We Come In
Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: uncooked, caregiving, character, humanity, leadership,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mr Potato Head
The eyes fit into little holes;
The nose, ears, mouth do, too.
Of course, you have some choices
But not more than just a few.

The parts are made...

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Categories: uncooked, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Self
Dear Self,

I'm oh so sorry I let you down, so many uncountable times
Sorry I ignored your cries and pretended I didn't hear them, though they...

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© Omar Dew  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: uncooked, hope, inspirational, life, nostalgia,
Form: Bio
Premium Member My Tiger and Me
Walking my tiger home, I now feel
happy to be alive.
Out in the sun, I’m a charmed one -
someone who learned to survive!

It wasn’t easy when...

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Categories: uncooked, animal,
Form: Quatrain
A New Fashion Trend - Or What I Learned On the Web Today
New fashion Trend

There’s a new fashion trend that has my heart achin’
A scarf that looks like a raw slice of bacon
It’s made of silk crepe...

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Categories: uncooked, art, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Karagam Dance
Hey, hey, I want to dance the *KARAGAM dance
*Hey, Sham, Manu, bring pitchers from archives
Fill the pitchers with water and uncooked rice
As rice symbolizes food...

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Categories: uncooked, religious,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Governed By Excuses
oh little lad
energetic and promising
hopeful and full of potential
do you stay all day long in the sea not to get hot
or eat uncooked meat just...

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Categories: uncooked, character, desire, self, senses,
Form: Rhyme
A Soul Called Soul
I’m trapped in the American struggle/ 
Surrounded in the alcoholic drug addicted jungle/ 
In my soul called soul I seem to unknowingly look for trouble/...

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Categories: uncooked, confusion, depression, inspirational, life,
Form: Acrostic
Postcard From Hell
I prayed to God hoping he’d send me a distraction.
Then I just stood around, and well, nothin’ happened.

So I said, “This just proves you don’t...

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Categories: uncooked, introspection, me, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Third Degree
"The Third Degree"

I’m thinking, if I am to commence this degree next year, then perhaps easier to have cats. I can’t leave a dog alone...

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Categories: uncooked, dream, future, humanity,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs