Best Skull Poems
Below are the all-time best Skull poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of skull poems written by PoetrySoup members
Within Reason- Maurice Yvonne and Seren RobertsWithin reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories.
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Categories:
skull, life,
Form:
Verse
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be...
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Categories:
skull, death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
skull, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
skull, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
Love Has Its CostsTHIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...
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Categories:
skull, desire,
Form:
Narrative
Hot and Cold Comes the NightLIST POETRY - A FUTURISTIC INTERPRETATION
You
must know
I cried yesterday
and I think I broke the world
so I braided some words into twine
planted some sweet...
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Categories:
skull, depression, heart, introspection, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Lonely RuinEtched in my soul
is the peace of a lonely ruin,
an old chapel on the skull
of a hill surrounded by pastureland
and wind-swept trees.
Below a lake stretches...
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Categories:
skull, hope, life,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
skull, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form:
Couplet
Dusty Old BooksA book that I plucked
from an antiquity of books
filled my nostrils
with a smell that I will always know
and always love.
This love cannot be explained,
but neither...
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Categories:
skull, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
skull, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1Ghosts of the Sun Dance
1. The Path
A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...
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Categories:
skull, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Press '1' For EnglishI grew a beard
while waiting for you
it looks more and more
like I'll never get through
My left ear was aching
I switched to my right
This perpetual holding
has...
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Categories:
skull, funny, humorous, parody, technology,
Form:
Rhyme
PathosNobody observes her leaving her room
wearing just her nightdress and red felt carpet slippers
Shuffling silently she slips out of the front door onto the street
Rivulets...
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Categories:
skull, dark, memory, old, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Death TollsThe atmosphere rings with the bell like calls
of the plover flock, long before they are spotted.
The flight herringbones a grey fedora sky.
Markings of white and...
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Categories:
skull, beach, beauty, bird, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Inebriant MelodiesDaylight is greeted with the horrific stench of food chunks
swimming in stomach acid, dribbling onto bed sheets.
Accompanied with the embarrassment of
brown syrup puddle stains.
Head...
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Categories:
skull, addiction, angst, dark,
Form:
Free verse