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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 Roberts
Within reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories. 
 
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Categories: skull, life,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As 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
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: skull, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through 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
Premium Member Love Has Its Costs
THIS 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



Premium Member Hot and Cold Comes the Night
LIST 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
Premium Member A Lonely Ruin
Etched 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
Premium Member to sail the sky -
* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

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Categories: skull, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet
Dusty Old Books
A 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
Premium Member Passion
you                 don't            know 


my                  ...

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Categories: skull, passion,
Form: Free verse
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts 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
Premium Member Press '1' For English
I 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
Premium Member Pathos
Nobody 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
Premium Member Death Tolls
The 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
Premium Member Inebriant Melodies
Daylight 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: skull, addiction, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things