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Best Skinless Poems

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Introductions -Part 1-
Underneath it all…
No, not clothe-less—not naked…
Skinless…we’re traveling DEEP within…
Imagine your skull cut…split right in the middle,
Opening up to reveal your AMAZING brain,
As the rest of...

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Categories: skinless, adventure, allegory, angst, confusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Not Gold, But Green Forests -
Words of truth you have never heard before
If I ruled the world;
I wanted to create a well-organized world of the future
where all is - (......

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Categories: skinless, beauty, change, happiness, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - the Last Goodbye -
I release the memories
Closes the door for the last time
I will always remember what we shared
A skinless sorrow fills my heart

A life with white horses...

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Categories: skinless, goodbye, grief,
Form: Free verse
Kirsty (One)
Even now I sit, slump, shuddering,
Remembering...
Stale walls echoing lamenting calls,
their house...
A nightmare flickered in the red herring of betrayal.
Stumbling hormones, skinless evil.
it breathed...
Blood red lips...

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© Holly King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skinless, death, family, red,
Form: I do not know?
Powers That Be
To the powers that be. 
I've allowed you to view 
my weakness like an 
opportunity. Give school 
children fatherless 
babies, and preach their 
nudity to...

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Categories: skinless, conflict
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member The Threshold of Graduation
The arrival of spring  greeted again and again, 
Each day at the awakening of twilight, 
With the songbird’s sweet refrain, 
Much to the morning...

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Categories: skinless, education, imagination, religion
Form: Rhyme
Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA
I remember it well, that first day in Hell
             So long ago, I...

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Categories: skinless, war,
Form: Ballade
Silent Rust
Coming back home – wounded, skinless
Slowly sliding through ghosts of trees
With hums of Balalaika in his candid eyes
And withered leaves – caresses of the wizards...

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Categories: skinless, life
Form: Free verse
No Rabbit For Me Please
I had a little bunny
honey was her name

She was so cute and funny
till I clubbed her in the brain

So sad I had to eat her
but...

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Categories: skinless, animal, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Bio
Monofilamania
It is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.

It sharks, 
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy...

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© Jack Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skinless, allegory, passion, woman, memory,
Form: Free verse
Broken-Hearted Caressing Sorrow
Broken-Hearted Caressing Sorrow



Where do you bring a broken heart, damaged dreams that won’t depart?
Where do you go when things fall apart, serving silent screams a...

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Categories: skinless, depression, heartbroken, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
The Clothes Man
sucked out of denim and
cotton, half in running

flat over the bedroom floor
skinless like a cartoon cat

someone I knew the day before
an underarm stainer, a tracer

a...

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Categories: skinless, clothes,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pickle Party
Bread and Butter showed up first, 
thank God, with bread and butter 
(we hadn't any food out yet).
They had flown in from Detroit
on a real...

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Categories: skinless, food,
Form: Free verse
Come To Me
 Come To Me


 Come to me, he said again,
to my dismay and tired chagrin,
I fought to tarry a while longer...
As I grew weak, he...

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© Dean Kuch  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skinless, death, fantasy, fear, sorrow,
Form: Prose Poetry
In My Grave
A weak shout louder than a gun shot
Out of a mouth full of depressed misery and dead emotions
A walk to infinity
A search for the light...

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Categories: skinless, angst, death, depressionlight, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things