Short Skull Poems

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Skull of Midnight

The skull of midnight
                                          Dipped in honey of your soul












(C) rajat kanti chakrabarty
11 December 2014
Form: Monoku


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If I were to take a sledgehammer
Grip it tender but tight
So its iron skull may send
A scathing speech to your sternum
Would bricks take flight,
Or are you truly that dense?

Monk Skull Death

A Monk finds a skull
                                                A skull finds a monk
                                                    Both exchanges death





5-5-5
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Universe in a Skull

"Whoa - dude, that's really cool!"

Indeed, son, it's something to mull -
fascinating, never dull,
so vast it is incredible,
yet, smaller than a basketball -
the universe inside your skull.
Form: Rhyme

Rather Large Skull

Umm… I’ve got a rather large skull
And
I don’t know why

Where did my big head come from?
Why is it so big?
Do you find it intriguing?

My skull is quite large…
Would you caress it please?
Thanks.


The Skull

Deep in its eyes
Its pitch black stare
Searching for answers 
I will not find there
Arousing no secrets
No conspiracies
In emptiness
Its grinning glare
mocks my humanity
And as I look unto the skull
I realize my destiny
© Pat Mccoy  Create an image from this poem.
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Premium Member prettiest sugar skull

it was one of the prettiest sugar skulls I had ever seen
I thought tearing it up to eat would be incredibly mean
Hid it in a locked box hope chest of my cousin old Dean
It was given to me by an artist, the Day of the Dead Queen
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member 'a Dead Man's Skull

A wicked wick of tallow lit
witch's sacrifice remit,
smoky tapered candles fit
in a dead man's skull a writ.

Eyes ablaze Satan permits,
the single soul to rest a bit,
and blood runs-- into the pit
in candle light the witches flit.
Form: Monorhyme

Thick Skull and Dull

Thick Skull and Dull

No Powerball Winners. Can you
imagine winning a half a billion
dollars.

Trump surely does have a thick skull;
With an intelligence null who is dull;
Truly tempestuous;
Mind a big mess;
Not only that gathered a lot of gull.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Under My Skull

When I swore 
Not to hold the sea in my eyes; 
My hands alerted me 
to wait another 66 years of fight! 

When I swore 
Not to hold the wind in my hands; 
My eyes drifted me away
To the shore were almond tree 
Sleeps tight under my skull 


Written by © Fatima Nusairat

Archaeological Dig

it was a day
not unlike this one
when an archaeologist
… sore knees
… paint brush
… Friday fingernails
held my earthen skull
in his hands
and spared me a thought
his dirt-stained eyes
filling my empty sockets

and 
for a speck 
of epochal dirt
neither of us
heard the sun

The Skull of Valentine

Here you lie
On a base
An eternity on 
a pillow case

The bringer of joy
and love to all
The start of a holiday 
In love we shall fall

How did you become the man
known as Valentine
Start a holiday
That would spur 
quite a time

A mere a skull 
stuck in a box
A martyrs death
You have surely fallen
© Noah Fatih  Create an image from this poem.

Laughing Skull

LAUGHING SKULL

my arms have breached the white walls
of laughing skull.

i have feasted upon their thoughts
today my plate is empty.

the butler of my brain is tired
but continues to serve a feast.

bleached ribs a xylophone 
playing macabre notes.

as my tongue dances inside
the empty hall of my mouth.

:: 03.11.2022 ::

Premium Member Dream Series: the Bus

I dreamed my brain was coming loose inside my head because the bones of my skull were separating. I couldn't shake it all back into place, so I got on the bus to go to the hospital, wondering if I should've put ice on my handful of bone parts, including one vertebrae which made me wonder why my head didn't flop over on my shoulder. Then I realized I was on the wrong bus and had no idea where I was.

Premium Member Found a Skull the Other Day

I found a skull the other day
Was it human? I think no way.
Twenty-two bones, and all of them say
Come on down, honey, we want to play.

It was a merry skull, truly gay.
Rolling along the South Side Bay
In life he told me he was Big Jay
I frankly did not know what to say

Because he was a talkative gray
He told me stories, sure did. Okay?
I found him on the east highway
Decided to keep him, this skull named Jay.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Skull On a Hog

all around Detroit we heard a vrrrooom vrrrooom
It’s a skull on a hog! It spells instant doom!
This was said by a naysayer who is always full of gloom.
I stood by the road to wave at the vrrrooom vrrrooom

It was a skull on a hog with orange streaming hair behind him
He asked if I wanted a ride and I climbed on in.
The grim reaper and Count Dracula were both terrified of him.
I had the best ride of my life, said my cousin Grim.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Animals Find Comfort In a Skull

Joyful frog sat on the rock and bellowed his happy song.
His banjo twanging a rhythm that was totally strong.
Isn’t that part of a human? Isn’t it kind of wrong?
Asked a hippie-like toad who was lighting up a bong.

It might have been part of a human back in the day.
But it has been sitting in the sun, and it’s here to stay.
We must find comfort in whatever we find said a vole.
As he took a swan dive into the skull’s left eye hole.
Form: Rhyme

Practical Uses for the Human Skull

Through the ages
monkish chapels have erected alters
built from human skulls.
Mystics have understood
that such morbid displays
can lead to a fervor
of jaw-dropping moments.
The human skull reminds us
that death leaves its own gravestones.
Besides,
such boneyard objects de ’art
simply beg to be made into candle holders
or useful paperweights
additionally,
a dislocated mandible
serves as a most adequate rest
for a lit cigar.

Premium Member Red Skull the Dance

she loved me a man filled with hatred and anxiety she loved me and she became my wife but my actions were sad and dreadful not fit for that of a free man but she loved me and years went by and my story just kept turning for the worse why couldn't I just be the man she wanted, she needed but she loved me and now we are apart the anguish and the loneliness prevails and the only thoughts I have is she loved me

The Horrid Skull

Beneath the shallow sea,

something rests on the wet

sands, waiting to be discovered



Yes, yes, a horrid skull it is,

with its jaws wide open,

revealing fangs that can only befit

a vampire



Questions haunt my conscience

of whether it's a pirate vampire

or a mermaid vampire.......



Lonely the skull rests on the sea floor,

waiting to open a creepy door

that might frighten the mermaids and fish away



Date: 08/08/2014

Premium Member Skull Man Stares at Me

Skull man stares at me from the mirror
Instantly, I recognize my mistake
This was a new life
A chance to get things right
This is why we are recycled and reborn right?

Yet here I am, in the same rut as my last lifetime
Making the same erratic, weird, strange choices
Choices that keep me down
Put me down
Squashing me into mud, muck and mire

Skull man makes no sound
Yet I hear his voice
Feel his disappointment
Same again?
Really?
For skull man is me
me

My Skull Is In Animation

My skull animates
I see it talking, chewing, chuckling,
Moving right and left
Sometimes with horrible gape
It wants eating everything;

I see and I am wonder of it
People around me also see it
But they take it normally,
They are not bothered 
A little bit even indirectly,
They are in eternal oblivion;

How will I be normal?
When I see it bites my own hands,
Cuts into pieces,
Makes me bleeding,
Sometimes I am swooned;

Yet I am alive!
My skull is in animation.
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Red Skull

he is evil a monster in his own right destined to rule the world and defeat Captain America why do we love to hate this man disguised by a red skull mask it is peace we yearn for not the terrifying acts of a mad man he is the worse horrible human and he has so many sneaky tricks up his sleeves but I love to read about him all his dreadful stories and tales of suspense will he ever turn to the good side this I highly doubt but we can pray he does

Premium Member Skull Fever At Play

Skulls were sliding down the rapids having so much fun.
Their screams were well seen but eerily silent of course.
They frolic so prettily! Their bodies said, lying in the beach sun.
Suddenly an elongated skull joined them, the skull of a horse.

The equestrian’s mouth opened, showing loads of long teeth.
It’s amazing said the turtles, who were hiding below in the reef.
Skull fever is alive and well in the Seven seas today!
The sea creatures nodded, liking them in every way.
Form: Rhyme

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