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Body Poems | Examples of Body Poetry

The autopsy of a black body
An autopsy of a black body One who suffered greatly The body pushed past its limits To the point it had enough and quit A scalpel to their chest Slowly peeling the layers of flesh Noticing the rot Hit by the stench of trauma The body dissected The organs removed Leaving the body an empty shell Of a broken person Beaten by an...

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Categories: body, discrimination, hate, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's a girl
“It's a girl!” The female form, the rounded edges that soothe and nurture Shaped and created by gentle hands to fit a shoulder under a heavy arm Beast of burden I was formed this way and now I am bruised and soft from the many blows life has landed upon me As ages pass,we continue to strive to be...

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Categories: body, abortion, discrimination, gender, humanity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Body Possession Feeling
In the flowing darkness of the delirious night I saw once my being sink with my essence escaping, get dissipated in dissociative domain of ethereal ether where I heard the sound of the distant bells toll faintly, masking the music of my life’s violin fading away in stalled time’s deadly depth of smothering silence. ...

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Categories: body, confusion, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Body Possessed
A body possessed is a spirit that knows no compassion, for soul grew weak. Evil’s roots took hold. Bleak became eyes that once could see the light. Spirit lost will to fight. A sinister grin curves the host’s lips. Sanity now is lost....

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Categories: body,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Growing old is not for the faint of heart
It's not at all easy to come to term with this 'new' old version of me. I'm dealing with a sadly sagging anatomy where what-used-to-be is now not-quite-so-firm. I'm dumbstruck by the person in the mirror. I have to have 'the' chat again and again to scatter the chatter from my brain and help me focus to see things clearer. At least I'm...

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Categories: age, body, change, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Bite
Throbbing, concave marks adorn my skin—records of your hunger, sated only by the meat of my body. Though the pain is sweet—craved, fulfilling—and my blood rushes to provide you with drink, my head—detached, neglected—wanders. Tell me, if the flesh fell away like tender rib meat off of the bone— would you still ache to sink your teeth into the me that remained?...

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Categories: allegory, body, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation redux revisited
Prolonged offal bout courtesy constipation... redux revisited Upteenth instance where yours truly experienced assault upon hindquarters. A worse hellish fate than perdition and the closest in the throes of agonizing death scene rendition stabbing sphincter muscle spasms wrench yours truly analogous to contortionist, who presents convincing torturous scenario even absent primal screams readers or eavesdroppers envisioning his twisting and writhing as if body frankly...

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Categories: body, abuse, adventure, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
This Side Of My Skin
I blame it for the pain As i try and understand its secrets As it’s forms and folds wraps itself around me Its supposed to protect the me from the world But I cannot make sense of the curved markings painted across it im supposed to take care of it keep it smooth perfect for the picture but i am...

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Categories: 11th grade, anxiety, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After a Writing Workshop About the Body
This is not my body. Not the one that used to tell everything to anyone— I mean everything, like I thought it might get me somewhere closer to known. I sat in a circle today, some kind of writing thing— you know the type. Lots of deep breathing and soft lighting. Someone cried reading what they wrote in the first eight minutes and I— well, I flinched. Not because it...

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Categories: body, age, appreciation, women, writing,
Form: Free verse
Body Hate
A stranger lives beneath my skin, A twisted thing, a grinning sin. It pulls and prods, it makes me sick, Another bite, another trick. The porcelain mocks my face, A painted lie, a shameful space. I heave and choke, a bitter tide, Trying to wash the hate inside. Each inch I pinch, each bone I crave, A hollow shell inside this grave. Duct tape binds,...

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Categories: 10th grade, abuse, body,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member BODY POSSESSION
I have a body till I’m to survive to feel myself as a living person to continue journey, so long I live. When to leave the body ! Me in tension. Depending on body, my life to...

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Categories: body,
Form: Sonnet
I starve myself
I starve myself. When saying it out loud it sounds surreal, But it’s the only way I can feel. I am not worthy of food. It is not worth the weight. Fore I see myself by what I have ate. Starving is like slowing dying. Numb, and invisible to what others can see. Funny how food could be the death of me. I...

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Categories: body, fear, feelings, food,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Vista of Fire
her mind a box of melted crayons her hands a vista of fire magic wands raked over ...

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Categories: body, fire, magic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer by the Pool
Laying out by the pool, Jules was caught wearing less than the rules said she aught She was asked by the cop why she'd cast off her top Her reply? "it's s July and I'm hot"...

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Categories: body, summer,
Form: Limerick
On Growing Older
On Growing Older Sometimes my steps are steady, Sometimes my hands shake. Sometimes my memory falters, And I make some sad mistake. Sometimes I hear you talking But I do not understand. Just remember that I love you And I do the best I can. My skin is sagged and wrinkled. I look a little like an Elf. My eyesight's getting hazy, Sometimes I repeat...

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Categories: age, appreciation, blessing, body,
Form: Rhyme

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