Best Flesh Poems
Below are the all-time best Flesh poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of flesh poems written by PoetrySoup members
Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~
i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...
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Categories:
flesh, angel, beauty, love,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Within Reason- Maurice Yvonne and Seren RobertsWithin reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories.
...
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Categories:
flesh, life,
Form:
Verse
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
flesh, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
The StoneThe tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
flesh, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form:
Ballad
This Spring the Poppies BloomedA field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun...
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Categories:
flesh, beauty, flower, life, love,
Form:
Free verse
BrokenI wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -
once again
she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...
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Categories:
flesh, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
flesh, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...
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Categories:
flesh, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
My Poems Are Children To MeMy poems are conceived, not within the womb,
which long time now has been devoid of seed.
My poems are born from a need to be heard:
my...
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Categories:
flesh, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Periwinkle Promises Close your eyes
inhale roses-
love-glazed steam
of insatiable thirst;
place your thoughts
upon my heart,
feel my
voice s w i r l i n g
in sync with...
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Categories:
flesh, i love you, love,
Form:
Free verse
When a Man CriesNo one ever told me that your heart could bleed without a drop that anyone could see. I didn't know your soul could lose weight...
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Categories:
flesh, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Some Hearts Can Never Be TamedOnce when my soul spoke,
you betrayed every word.
Then your tongue promised
to only sing with sincerity.
I danced for a brief while,
lost in your angelic orchestra.
Until...
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Categories:
flesh, angst, loss, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
flesh, emotions, how i feel,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
flesh, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
Northern SlavesIn the silent breathing of night,
treading through
the darkness and the hush
(A heavy band of slave)
like black ants snaking
through the forlorn distance.
Grieving with tears
Of yesterdays...
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Categories:
flesh, emotions, metaphor, sad, slavery,
Form:
Free verse