Peel Off Poems - Poems about Peel Off

All I want

...#All_I_want
The ticking on my wrist, 
start to show my age,
 and what could have been, 
some memories worth dumped by the roadside. Time is of no essence to me now. 

Been pondering, 
even the...

In stars above

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My mother's hands are dove wings, gently caressing my cheek

...My mother's hands are dove wings, gently caressing my cheek,
"My beautiful girl," she whispers, and her words peel off me like dead skin,
How dare she love this shell, this body that bears the burd...

Despite me

...Let my heart flood  thee with  my words
I can’t fight the war of love 
But i can search your soul for romantic moments 
I know no words of sincerity but over the years lovers have turned fouls 
I...

Scrape: To remove an unwanted covering or a top layer from something, usually with something sharp

...Scrape away, at a life. You just weren’t given any real instructions –
so, you scrape like a carpenter
at grey washed walls, wanting
to peel off old paint – old memories,
in your head you scrap a...

After Child's Birth

...Mother's thinking 
Like shrimp peeled 
Off chili cells. 

Mother's also 
Peel off chili 
Aft giving birth.

Aft mother's birth
Pregnant mother
Will bloom again.

True joy is back
Aft mot...

my mother

...My mother’s daughter  
“I’m not a monster. I’m a mother.” - 
every waking day l am my mother’s daughter. 
from the shining of the floors l sweep 
to the dusting of the mukwa furniture 
On Earth ...

Remember Yourself

...
I have stood on every shoreline Earth could grow—
watched civilizations peel off like snakeskin,
hands red and raw, throwing words into the wind.
What was it, they asked, what was the answer?

...

Inquest

...Start journey quest now where love shows,
Stride with calm poise shrewd path of fate;
Feel touch fling zest in sublime flow,
By your own choice greet lavish state.
Learn how to glide as act funds...

Windy Words Within

...A silent storm rages on in my head
winds whisking into a symbolic swirl.
Though all alone, I lie here in my bed
spinning wound up words twisted till they twirl.

Peel off outer layers, see deep ...

we are taught to be complicit in our own dehumanization

...i was good,
though i was born with mens eyes
crawling on my skin like ants, 
following me through the grocery store. 
i was good, i was 5 the first time 
i was told to close my legs, 
sitting o...

caterpillar

...for you i am whatever you want me to be.

i would morph myself into a butterfly if that's what you want.

i would peel off this skin i already possess and sew on a new one.

i would forage in t...

Strip Before the Styx

...Charon demands us to disrobe
Sell your layers for coins
Some with less have more to trade
Better than becoming chained ghosts
Our suits and dresses tie us down
Being nude again will be sobering
...

River of Tears

...A Vulcan's volcanic rage erupts from deep within – 
No matter where or when it roars and it spits. 
A shattered mirror reflecting my every flawful flaw – 
Bleeding shards of grotesque glass...
th...

No Stoat In the Boat

...We were bobbing on the ocean in our tiny pea green boat
The pussycat, the owl and me were many days afloat
With hunger in the belly and a dryness in the throat
The owl winked at the pussycat and s...

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