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Best Epidermal Poems

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Epidermal Evidence

It’s skin deep evident,
being black is an inherent crime

It doesn’t matter whether we
peacefully
stand our ground,
or be siren subservient — 
Hands in the air, 
knees bent

We...

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Categories: epidermal, grief, perspective, truth, violence,
Form: Elegy



The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover

Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other

We are all one,
tho’ from...

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Categories: epidermal, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Stitched Beauty

The surgeon generals 
are scalpel meeting once again
Fear doktors of war
are planning to raise another mar
on Earth’s topographical skin

Pigmented epidermal cells
are being prosperity lullabied put...

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Categories: epidermal, allusion, truth, wisdom, world,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Binary Decision

Life always offer choices — 
Some easy,
some hard

Alternate current inner voices:
Pulse charge emotional,
or neural beta rational

Positive or negative energy flow
Binary decision 
is either yes or...

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Categories: epidermal, introspection, spiritual, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Adieu - Part 2
The tears flowed and I still smiled,
My body and spirit and mind,
Were still in that state of residual bliss,
Soaking in your sweet smile,
And savoring the...

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Categories: epidermal, heartbreak, love, passion, true
Form: Free verse



From Plantation To Implantation


Looks like dem old ugly chains
got a new modern face
Beauty upgrade ... high-end cosmetic tech;
low-cost dressed in labor modest, 
minimum maintentance convenience
From da delta plain...

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Categories: epidermal, imagery, slavery, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Guess Who Coming
GUESS WHO’S COMING…
(Apropos My Island Home..)

The sun slowly sunk
its exhausted reddish-orange
head into the waiting sea’s 
soothing sky blue bosom.

Excited white mane waves
splashed upon the waiting...

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Categories: epidermal, analogy, beach, heartbreak, irony,
Form: Prose Poetry
Seeds of Promise
Same story told in sad famished pupils,
   Every effort given as hunger pangs thrive.
A mother lays her head pondering tomorrow,
   Wondering...

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© Abe Lopez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epidermal, hope, life
Form: Quatrain
I Found It
As you look at me I'm not him.
Wearing a face of a man that does not exist, a myth. 
   For i am...

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Categories: epidermal, me, pride, strength,
Form: Free verse
Mind Muscle
MIND MUSCLE

Steroid cocktails, metallic flavor, Viagra rush; 
Mind numbing mush!

Sightless vision, cloudy comprehension, silent violence, whimpering misogyny; a blood-curdling hush…

Nervous perspiration, brain freeze, lactic acid...

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Categories: epidermal, analogy,
Form: ABC
The Mirror Lied
You were seduced by silicate reflections,
unflattering images
of your perceived epidermal imperfections 
The bedroom mirror showed you
your deepest fear
It's crystalline voice told you
what you wanted to...

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Categories: epidermal, beauty, image, sad, self,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Battle of the Case
Harsh! The  asphalt  sac circumscribes my spirit
   drowning  the  spectacle of sapphire ambiance
   That whirls a blue...

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Categories: epidermal, death,
Form: Burlesque
A Poem of No Purpose Done For the Sake of Writing
Dry skin caused by frozen winter winds
Caused by over washing
Too much caution given to cleanliness
The rough ridges distinctly defined
Will soon go away with care and...

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© Daron Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epidermal, confusion, funny, life, mystery,
Form: Alliteration
Time Slip Not

When they pleasure powered down to rest,
their twin-engine heart was beating still 
at the arterial warp speed of galactic love
With the endorphin catalyst fuel shutdown,
the...

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Categories: epidermal, allusion, love, science, science
Form: Free verse
Splat Splatter

Your red light betters consider you a black bug
on the windshield of life

That freedom flight of fancy smushed condition,
it don’t spotted glass much matter

Just another...

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Categories: epidermal, dark, death, perspective, truth,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs