Get Your Premium Membership

Best Epidermis Poems

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


Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

Read more of this work...
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epidermis, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Insanity Or Death
Insanity or Death

Life begins with insanity~~
~Your soul is kicking and screaming, 

Ready to exit with the touch of human hands.
Insanity rides on a gallant stallion...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, abuse, adventure, art, how
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Feral Frozen
Ursus Maritimus ...

I entered your world in quietude, slipping through the granular, soft.
          Long slats to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, animal, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fear of the Unknown
Fear Of The Unknown

That sudden unknown, so unrevealing, 
it's the tell-tale trademark of the one in question 
as it sets off nerves in every-which-way, 
plainly...

Read more of this work...
© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epidermis, fear, feelings,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Absence of Light
There is a darkness in my life, 
a forecast of torrential rain that drowns my heart with sorrow,
and its gloom clouds my mind, 
washing away...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, dark, death, deep, depression,
Form: Rhyme



Beauty
"Beauty is only skin deep",
At least, that's what they say.
Certainly a colorful disposition,
Will never grow old and gray.

Even those with cracks,
Let the inner light shine...

Read more of this work...
© S. Medland  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: epidermis, beautiful, beauty, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Dance
On scarred green corduroy couches, lined with age, sighing under my weight-

Like bearded old men, releasing ages of wearied wisdom, 

Slipping in their sleep-

In rooms...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, nostalgia, teenme, me,
Form: Free verse
No Pain No Gain, Crikey, Danger Mouse
Alice plummets down the hole, a fallin’ to no end,
She mumbles to herself these words, for she’s without a friend:
   >>Do cats eat...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, body, health, humor, hurt,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Thick Skinned - What It Feels Like For a Girl
“Thick Skinned – What it Feels Like for a Girl”



When you speak 
it’s as if stars cascade
out of your mouth 
galaxies you produce
musical incantations 
that...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, abuse, dark, muse, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Desayuno
Halo matutino en barro
Depresivo estanque nutricional
Epidermis en amontonamiento
Particular
Escasean; segunda capa
Cableado óseo para tomar
Ligero desvarío perceptual
Deshebra leguaje colegial

Frontal olímpico
Sin dejar de ser materia potencial
Los peces vuelan...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, confusion
Form: I do not know?
Condemned
Condemned
I
I just woke up from my breathless bed
And wondered why I still live
I thought death would take me on a leave
Unto the path I never...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, anxiety, bible,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ridiculous Thoughts
Babies have been known to crawl
Up to seven hundred feet a day
Better tie a rope tightly around them
Or they'll wind up miles away

Sex burns 360...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, hilarious,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sunburnt
Icarus mimicked;
epidermis cremated;
sympathy withheld....

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, pain, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Skin
Pigmentation, melanin
Epidermis covering
Different colours, freckles too
All the above is all of you
 
Virgin born from the womb
Wrinkled, will smooth out soon
In life it serves, protects...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, life
Form: Rhyme
Skin
Last time I checked,
it was still on my neck,
What now is a mark,
once was a speck,

Protected by the freckle,
I can now never forget,
Tattooed into a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: epidermis, beautiful, feelings, image, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things