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Best Skelp Poems


All Gone In the Gust of Wind
All were gone in the gust of wind.
Not yet fully grown up into a woman
She was to leave home for a man.
What type of rules are they that bind?
Young girls to quit family for another
And before time, be already a mother.
None ever bothered to know...

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Categories: skelp, death, family, funeral, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Serotonin
Dear Serotonin,

It's been many years since I've seen you last
Since you up and left me in the past
From then I've never been the same
And your absence from me is my shame

When you first left, I was a wreck
Life was a thorn in my side and...

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© Dylan Foss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skelp, change, feelings, how i
Form: Rhyme
Aw There
Ye tripped an fell 
an thorns gave you 
a skelf.
Aw there.

Ye clyped to tell
an maw gave ye 
a skelp.
Aw there.

Looked right and left
because you are  
so skelly.
Aw there.

Then oor da left
coz yoor no right. 
Naw really, yer no 
aw there....

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© John Prior  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skelp, family,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Anisha Dutta - View of Third Person
      Elegant lady, graceful, majestic 
       Mathematician and analytic.
     Lover of literature and music.
     Friendly, helpful, compassionate, frolic.

      Reasonable rational and...

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Categories: skelp, character,
Form: Bio
Premium Member From black to green
I feel enraged
Stuck in this cage
The Black dog beside me
The pushing down
My mask isn't working 
I manage to frown

When I'm out on a social.
I afix the mask it's a front
Most think that everything is fine
If only they new I was towing the line
It's not good...

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Categories: skelp, anxiety, confusion, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry