A call for the oppressors downfallComfort wrapped in a blanket of security
Never fearing the chance of brutality
Only a freedom granted to those with fair skin
Greeted by the warmth of idiocy
Building a racist system of legacy
With followers who exhibit stupidity
But useful in killing democracy
To continue their self fulfilling prophecy
Of forced superiority
A politicians smile brings a darkness
Poisonous...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, discrimination, political, power,
Form: Free verse
ObviousMonsters mind spinning. Hands steady. Stands ready
Girl by your side, has no idea she just met her demise
Masquerading as sane. His forced smiles of distain
In just a few moments you’ll feel a stab in your left thigh
Dizziness will overthrow you
Should have never trusted this guy. Should have never taken this ride
I’ll go no further...
Continue reading...
Categories:
anger, body, death,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts in Fog
My thoughts are hard to hold when
I know they're hard to shape.
Like climbing out of fog
just to fall into more.
I try to dream,
but worry gets there first—
a shadow curled up in my brain,
wide awake at night.
Even sleep feels heavy.
Even silence buzzes.
Even breathing sometimes
feels like work.
Life, in general,
just won’t let go.
It presses in—
quiet,
loud,
never still.
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
anxiety, body, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
I Lost My BodyIf I could go back in time,
I’d go back to when I believed in soulmates
the way I believe the stars in the night sky
guide us to a predetermined destiny.
Poorly illuminated by the moon,
leaving you to seek yourself intentionally.
Well,
I’ve learned you can throw away fate
when you make an extremist choice,
deviating against that destiny.
Like salmon in...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Listen to meThe river flows
But not outside of me
My body
As much as I tell it
It will not respond to my emotions
As much as I cry inside
It will not cry outside
As much as I smile inside
It will not smile outside...
Continue reading...
Categories:
angst, body, cry, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Body Possession
Twisted and taunted,
I stood in the wintry path where
sparkling silver slivers of mercury
searched for their brethren
to merge as one.
Colder than my path, a clammy cold
from the nitrous night, crept through as winter winds
coming from the chill of the grave,
and blasted me with icy shards, scraping at my bones
and freezing my soul.
Its harshness racked me as...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, corruption, evil, fire,
Form: Narrative
Body Language
Putting my best foot forward
shoulder to the wheel
nose to the grindstone
my Achilles heel
while sticking my neck out
I soon found
as
with my eye on the ball
ear to the ground
when I put my back into it
not with tongue in cheek
but to keep my chin up
heard joints creak
the onset of old age memory loss
an early taste
for in the end...
Continue reading...
Categories:
age, body, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Spiritual possessionThrough an opal window I saw a cloud,
changing colors from blue to orange to red,
like a burning fire.
I was swept off my feet,
floating on a bridge between this world and the next.
My body no longer in my possession,
I hear voices beyond my choices,
juggled on a hawser like a puppet on strings ~
my entire being a...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, fantasy, heaven, imagination, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Ocean's Body - Rondelet
Ocean's body
old footprints gone before I come
Ocean's body
with flower's toss, overgrowing,
old footprints gone before I come —
the fall of the tide falls in love
Ocean's body...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, deep, flower, innocence, love,
Form: Rhyme
Mooning
I knew a young girl
just a pretty face
who lost her mind
in outer space
with a celestial body
decidedly racy
out of this world
but totally spacey
not quite the brightest light
it's true (but what a view) and yet
when gazing at the moon
turned loony... a space cadet
and 'twas the lunar orb
(waxing, waning, new or blue)
of that there's no doubt
whose gravitational pull
simply...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, girl, humor, moon, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Those We Lovethose we love don't go away
they walk beside us everyday
some think heaven is far up in the stars
God, I believe heaven is wherever you are
and so you promise to never leave or forsake us
if we believe, if in you we truly trust,
then wouldn't that prove heaven is near?
that presence I feel is really here?
the...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, angel, christian, death, family,
Form: Rhyme
Crabsa crab sheds his shell
vulnerable for six weeks
a new shell appears
stronger than ever
he struts across the beach sand
less vulnerable
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
beach, body, change, creation,
Form: Haiku
Wombstorm: A Herstory of HysteriaI. THE WANDERING
I was born with a life that bled—
a seafloor womb
dragging tides of fern
and marigold char
The priests brought saffron
and fear
crowning me with diagnosis
They said: She is too empty
They said: Fill her with figs
with seed
with stillness
They said: Her belly speaks too loud
Mute her
O Plato
old patriarch of phantoms
my body was no beast—
just prophecy you never learned...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, history, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
FreedomI lace my shoes as morning breaks,
The hush of dawn, the route I take.
With every step, the world fades out , the sunrise is motivating, no room for doubt.
The rhythm builds, my breath in sync,
Pacing Past sleeping streets ,and my skin flushes pink.
My thoughts untangle, calm and clear,
Each footfalll is bliss , my heartbeat...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, boyfriend, care, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Rain, and the Body RemembersThe body remembers…
What the mind politely forgets.
How rain once meant survival
How cold once meant fear
How being held...
Was once the only god that mattered.
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
body, analogy, fear, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Body Poems
Definition | What is Body in Poetry?
Poems Related to Body
anatomy, being, carcass, creature, frame, human, individual, mortal, party, person, skeleton, soul, torso