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Best Tattooing Poems

Below are the all-time best Tattooing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tattooing poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Feline Alert
*The feline Texan way*

A clean coat of paint - on my nails
Red shade of lips - on my smile
Solid oak charms - on my wrist
Country...

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Categories: tattooing, adventure, beauty, body, mirror,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sacred Gratitude
Sacred Gratitude 
Rockin and Rollin inside my soul
Beckoning musical notes float within me
My heart surrenders and opens
Expanding

When the world outside dances in tension
Feeling bleak and...

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Categories: tattooing, appreciation, beautiful, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Daylight Disappears
As shifting shadows merge within the night,
darkness devours disheveled silhouettes.
And daylight disappears, fading from sight,
as a splendiferous sun slowly sets. 
 
Twilight's crimson-colored clouds coalesce,
tinting...

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Categories: tattooing, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Village In the Valley
Village in the Valley left behind, and then it's a fine find
Mountain in the making...in the dark alleys of my mind

You're a flashlight
In the night
You...

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Categories: tattooing, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Ink
See me in the shadows
I'm drowning in black ink
Slipping beneath the surface
Darkness informs the way I think

Within, a perverse pleasure
The tattooing of my mind
Words are...

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Categories: tattooing, dark, desire,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Proudly Tattooed
PROUDLY TATTOOED 

Proudly tattooed I am for you,
I saw you going to have one too,
My ink is stained,
For I never feigned,
To have one alone, we...

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Categories: tattooing, adventure,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Not a Sound
Look up to a sky full of stars
akin to sparkling diamonds.
And watch a gold doubloon moon climb
high amidst a starlit background.

Not a sound, just you...

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Categories: tattooing, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member If You Slept From 1964 To 2020
People have learned it is okay to be themselves
They no longer have to follow their parents or any dogma
They can make up their own religion,...

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Categories: tattooing, nostalgia,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A New Store In Town
There is a new kid in town.
A new company.
Storefront with glass.
Headless Hands is what the marquee says.

A daycare center? Creative writing center? Nail salon?
Give up?...

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Categories: tattooing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kafka Disordered
“Kafka Disordered”



Kafka disordered 
never complete
in himself 
burning stories 
fuel for Nero
dreams of you
reading him 
wrapt under 
the covers
of his last pages 
tattooing his voice
on your...

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Categories: tattooing, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Romanticism
Damaging Tides
She'll tell you Karma
is not her friend.
With fists clenched tight
she screams, "God is dead!"

Because she knows true heartbreak, 
she bleeds for one man.
Her insecurity spells...

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Categories: tattooing, life, loss, self, spoken
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Healing Words
Her words were mumbled unprovoked and put him through the grinder
minced they were tearing apart they hurt like a dagger so he finally knew
where his...

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Categories: tattooing, love,
Form: Free verse
A Puzzling Poetic Tattoo Thanking You Nyla Alisia Ward
Nurturing poets to produce.
My motivational, poetical writing, spoken wordress muse.
In leading me to the speak easy cafe site.
To cause me initiating rites to write.
I am...

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Categories: tattooing, inspirationalme, me,
Form: Acrostic
Right To Remain Silent
Thinking about tattooing
"noitatneserP erocnE"
across my back.  
Install mirrors on the 
bedroom ceiling
so she sees it spelled 
correctly as I pray for her
only stopping when
Hallelujah...

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© Ts Lewis  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tattooing, lust,
Form: Free verse
Invisible Hand
The first invisible hand I saw, was the hand that appeared 
in the banquet hall of the Babylonian palace, inscribing 
letters on the wall, with...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tattooing, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things