Best Inked Poems

We are as we were before,
But you inspire me more.

Any real poet knows you're with us or against us,
Together we're one.
The world will wonder what's wrong,
When our work here is done.

We honor the new,
We honor the old.
We do as we say.
We say as we're told.

We...

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Written: February 17, 2025 for Contest by Joseph May

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Stalking dark bloom at night 
Quick, lithe out of sight
Prowling stealth, jump right
Hushed,...

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To anybody that has ever felt
anything at all, especially you -
I ran my fingertips across the leather notebook on your desk
and I felt your thoughts crackling below my skin;
overflowing with cursive letters and lines that raced inside the walls of your 
mind
I wanted so badly...

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Cold, black seat
Transfixed there.	 
Mind made up
My choice I’ll bare.

Needle to wrist
Sharp point sense.	
Pain is now 
Consequence.

What is inked
Ever glows.
What it says?
Come look to know....

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And they said, she likes you.
Let her in, and she damaged.
And stained my heart black.

Haiku.                       Erow....

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Blue like the sky or red like a fire

You can have any color you desire

Whether it is tribal or fairies with wings

When it first begins OH how it stings

My choice artwork is tigers with bright eyes

Eyes so wondrous in color they truly hypnotize

Some call theirs...

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Love inked presence, divine entwined
Vibrant, centred, joyful
Playing earth role, in as assigned
God’s living miracle

No selfish to do list 
Ensconced in a bliss mist
Hands outstretched to assist

Instinct
Love inked

03-May-2022
Quietus ...

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A Project, gathering dust

Stored away for no eyes to read; 

“Not yet- It’s not finished” 

Writer’s block makes the way difficult

-going up stream without a pencil- 

Worried about editing,

Worried about missing pieces. 

How can you connect the beginning and the end?

Worried if it’s too cheesy,

...

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Your hands extended from you wrists.....the clench of them around my arms

in welted need... never anger

has a scent that will never fade 
leaves a beauty mark far more indelible than any tattoo
inked in red upon my blue 

pulse points...

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Undulating ocean waves heave and sigh;
ebbing tides tethered to a waning moon.
And shades of indigo and sapphire blue
morph into liquid ebony at night.

As silent as cream, Luna's golden orb
rises, glowing softly in the night sky.
And moonbeams dance upon foamy whitecaps
that break upon the shallows with...

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The sound of wheels on tarmac
Keeps me focused
Keeps me grounded
Keeps me present

The sound of wheels on tarmac
Takes me farther and farther away
From everything I have ever known
Chained up like a worthless dog

The sound of wheels on tarmac
Reminds me that rebellion
Always comes at a price
You just...

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Dirty water
washes away
poetic indifference

Leaving the stain
of what will be
—on what forever might have been

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023) 
...

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For you, I will stain my body
For you, I will let the needle
pierce my skin,
ink my flesh,
as your absence inks my soul.

I carry darkness there and
this new tattoo 
will just be that bone-deep stain
making its outward appearance.

Sometimes you can see it in my 
eyes
but I...

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Before I was ten and six
 I, caged at home like a tooth pick

 I Ink books for fun as a novice
 Wanting to be the dream I have promised

 Now, I am ten and six 
 After longing to have you fix

 I have...

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Poison ivy’s ruby kiss

Strip all the ink away
Do away with her kiss; ivy.
Ivy’s kiss still stings
clings to a heart that’s inked deep 
deeply rooted ivy- spicy leaves…
leaves her mark on a trifling bum.
A bum brim full of hot air teases
kisses out of icy ivy, earns...

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