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Skin Poems - Poems about Skin

Skin Poems - Examples of all types of poems about skin to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for skin.
Wave
...It bulges forwards straining to break its own skin shatters at its peak ......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, nature, sea, water,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Skin of Terror
...Skin of Terror - Daniel Henry Rodgers (Lights slowly rise on a lone figure, MICHAEL, hunched over a steering wheel. His knuckles are white aga......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Crystallized She Wore
...Your skin glows like a peach blossom, Delicious as the Lotus Flower, In the purest hope of spring. My yearning heart rises to yours, Feminine voice and leaps as a panther By the whisper of y......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, art, beauty, christian, confidence,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Heart
... Written: May 12, 2024 For Constance La France Contest 1. "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..." E.E. Cummings ~~~~~~~......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, analogy, appreciation, heart, love,
Form: Abecedarian
ALL
... I am replaceable but My Love and memories won't leave Do you know why? My all is what I gave before it went sour! I am replaceable but My all and Love were blameless, After all, My skin......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, absence, baby, betrayal, confidence,
Form: Imagism



Mothers Day 2024
...*MOTHERS’ DAY.* To the motherland and mothers in the land The caring and the tending hand Let ye not be strayed wayward Before you can claim your reward Through daunting tasks and dire nee......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet to the eels
...Those tender eels you rescue by the shore bring you empty news from the deep; they aptly sing your sunken score, vivid sounds from the liver of your ship. You rely on your Sunday best to warm ......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, beach, depression,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member An ode to Dahlia
... Oh my enchantress dahlia, an inspiration to my muse. I remember, meticulously planting your bulbs, so you would bloom in an abundance of colours. I watched your emerald stalk blossom slowly, ......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, flower,
Form: Ode
Unravel
...Choke me, like the words I've wanted to say out loud. Dig your nails into my flesh Like the pain that has been inflicted on me. Let your claws leave scars on my chest, And your fangs on my nec......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A MOTHER WHISPERS TO HER SON
...A mother whispers to her son… “I remember our first night together…as I wiped away a tear… thinking how…only a day ago…you weren’t even here. Thinking back on how…exactly…this moment came to be…......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, mother son, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
The Sullied
...On the streets of Lagos,lumbasa , Kigali, Cairo and their environs Shame etched his name on thy skin Thou art become a site for dumping For all willing to dump Gone is thy once-proud stature......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, africa,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member geneva
...During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, boyfriend, humor, love, school,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful Girls
...I see the way your body dances through the halls of our home, how dirty you are. dirty little girl. My teacher said this is not what we do. Mom tells me this is bad. They’re wrong. Beautiful girls ......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Treachery of Images Magritte - this is not a pipe -
... take your thoughts stuff them into a non thing the thoughts and the nothingness breathed in and out expelled to travel permeate fabrics ......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Our Daily Bread
...Our Daily Bread Flour, yeast,and milk,a bit of butter too, and giving it a little time to rise, into a loaf, it grew.. From this mass of sticky flour will come warm, pillow soft bread. ......Read the rest...
Categories: skin, culture, dream, flying, gender,
Form: Rhyme

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