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Containment Poems - Poems about Containment

Premium Member Wombstorm: A Herstory of Hysteria
...I. THE WANDERING I was born with a life that bled— a seafloor womb dragging tides of fern and marigold char The priests brought saffron and fear crowning me with d......

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Categories: containment, body, history, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Goliath's Stone
...Downwind of my perception Upwind before the fall Immune in my protection From dullards at the mall The past remains in focus The future but a myth My words fall out of judgment Each......

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Categories: containment, time,
Form: Rhyme



Fruit Jar Fireflies
...I see words, and they see me It’s true they are sentient, quite But they will never see the light of my world through my loins They keep floating by, ever speaking never ceasing like tinnit......

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Categories: containment, allegory, beauty, creation, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost Containment
...The stitches seemed so sturdy Holding it all together All was safely contained No danger of spread or mess All neatly packed away No one worried about a fallout The pieces had become just Peace......

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Categories: containment, i miss you, moving
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
... We came not for conquest, but for containment— though conquest is what happens when containment itches beneath the skin like sulfur spores in a sealed lung. They had the secret. Not gold, n......

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Categories: containment, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



A Crown Forged Bright
...A Cage Forged Bright: A Hymn Against Gold They say gold is pure. They say gold is holy. They say gold crowns kings, anoints gods, carries prayers. They do not say: gold is a shackle. They do not sa......

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Categories: containment, money,
Form: Free verse
SOLITUDE poetrix
... I feel in the deserved rest containment of ideas and words not erasure of the senses......

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Categories: containment, allusion, perspective,
Form: Free verse
The Halfway Glass
...A city block vendor chimes pleasantries prouder than Muzak or an unseen crow in the background elevating alarm clock music in the caws uncredited and angrily growing louder. A walkway narrows ......

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Categories: containment, crush,
Form: Free verse
The Torpedo
...Fuse lit now, the spark ignited: Let it burn, this love misguided. Our future once had seemed vivid Now obfuscated… no: omitted. Structural damage, shock waves follow Breach the hull and the v......

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Categories: containment, lost love, recovery from,
Form: Narrative
WORDPLAY
...WORDPLAY Scores of work to read and think deeply Stores of enthusiasm can reduce steeply Snores are heard and can attract curses Snorts from a few less tolerant nurses Sports offer very differ......

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Categories: containment, words,
Form: Rhyme
Webs
...All seasons come with grace and not all fall for them with grace, Nurturing all they preserve, What makes them different from among themselves, We all are like seasons,different in all ways, Bu......

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Categories: containment, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member AnaLytTCaL DENIAL--
...Obsessed missing engagement Containment process derailment Confused enlightenment Embodiment confession Google Maps guidance Translucent misguided Placed in a New Direction...

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Categories: containment, angst, anxiety, destiny, engagement,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bearing Gift One To Another
... Quiet and beautiful is the day, where reflection adjoins - with bustling children,- adorned,- with bright,- happy colors and a sense of thankfulness, glory. It is a stark reality, that mu......

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Categories: containment, art,
Form: Free verse
Vacation All I Ever Wanted
... Crystal waters plumping the honeydews and cascading through amusement park ride. As tourists engage in espionage in Duckburg at Knottsbury farms. As graves of self sufficiency, Communes of ba......

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Categories: containment, art,
Form: Free verse
Freethinker
... In the still of the night, spectro-gramming the hot utter of air, filtered by laser strainer- it has become a scale for judgment scaled by tier a black hole of sin in my pocket, a p......

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Categories: containment, art,
Form: Rhyme

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