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Peel Off Poems - Poems about Peel Off

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: peel off, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: peel off, africa, america, beautiful, deep,
Form: Romanticism



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......

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Categories: peel off, humanity, mental health, work,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: peel off, birth, family, home, mother,
Form: Than-Bauk
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 ......

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Categories: peel off, allusion, i love you,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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? ......

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Categories: peel off, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: peel off, allegory,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: peel off, introspection, joy, philosophy, storm,
Form: Sonnet
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......

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Categories: peel off, dark, for her, for
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: peel off, anger, anxiety, film,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: peel off, addiction, death, depression, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: peel off, hope, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: peel off, animal, fate, nursery rhyme,
Form: Monorhyme
To Be a Refugee
...Means you walk with a mute dignity And because the touch has a memory, you can no longer make another one, No sea can reveal to you the joy of its flowing and its every wave is shackled with corps......

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Categories: peel off, how i feel, i
Form: I do not know?
Take Me To Nirvana
...At the time, just around twilight When it’s neither dark nor light For some profound thoughts to reflect Snub evil ideas that infect the intellect Wrap around you a swathe of silence Peel o......

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Categories: peel off, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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