Short Tanning Poems

White Ohio body tanning under Florida sun...

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youth
softly tanning
jumping, running, laughing
joyful, playing, happy, lovely
youth...

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Born brown, bad.
Turned brown in a tanning booth, good.

Born black, bad.
Dressing all in black, good....

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Scorching,drying,tanning sunshine,
Sun at its acme, 
Vessels dilate, wet as in rain .








Written on 13/6/13...

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A lesson learnt in ancient Rome:
Beware the sun with sea-salt foam
But learnt at Yale
With skin so pale
Don't leave your bikini at home!...

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albino
bread
catches
tanning
rays

gentle
warmth
embraces

hot
hotter
besieging
heat

smoke
pollutes
kitchen
air

vitality
incinerated
no
bread
only
char...

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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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Sittin' in the sun tanning my parts
Calm down girlies, viewing will soon start
Buck fifty an hour
Then need a shower
Free if I can join you and review your repetoire...

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The Tanning Bed

By Elton Camp

Victoria wanted to get a healthy tan
So it was to the tanning bed she ran
It was there she learned of carcinoma
And all got worse, it was melanoma...

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Sittin' in the sun, tanning my parts
Calm down girlies, viewing will soon start
Buck fifty an hour
Then need a shower
Free if I can join you and review your repetoire...

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                Apricity 
          golden, burnished 
     smiling, sunning, tanning
  Sauna, Humidity, Fever, Mirage
fleeting, dissipating, darkening 
          frozen, shadowy 
               Melancholy...

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Did you know, toasters are tanning beds for bread
Keep coming up with these winners straight from my head
Was one of my best
Even amazed myself
Another is chocolate covered bacon, popularity not widespread...

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I see a chick on the beach covered with tanning oil. 
She makes me so hot that my eyes want to boil. 
This sweetheart has just made my top ten list. 
Do they allow such good looking women to exist?

Inspired by another member's poem
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I’m sunbathing down on the beach
just tanning, I look quite a peach
I’m totally nude
Some find that so rude
It shocks all the kids that I teach!



Fiction poem 
for Summer Laziness Poetry Contest
sponsored by

Mohan Chutani


06/02/20...

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Who’s mugshot was seen around the world 
Who is infamous for being impeached
Who’s hair defies wind with no curl
With orange skin from spray tanning
Who could be so obnoxious indeed
And it give a polling up bump
Who can’t keep his hands to himself
Ironically his name rhymes with rump
...

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Iced slipped and fell flip over
Eyes of coal blinded by the snow cover
Funny though, who ever heard of
A snowman sun tanning upserd
In this Topsy-turfy who every heard
Frozen world of a sun bathed frost man
Tanned now burnt turns to water man


4/4/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.
©2018...

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Poor Margo, she died in a tanning tube
her skin parched dry of blocking lube.
Said her husband with some emotion
I think it’s only fitting she be buried
with the bikini in which she died,
with a large supply of tanning lotion.
I’m confident that where she’s going,
she’ll want her tan still ongoing.
...

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I can't help
but write of such beauty
that steals
my thoughts from poetry.
I sit here and gaze
up and down,
as she lays there
upon the ground.

I wonder why
some women can look so divine,
and me without a word to speak,
I will never meet
the woman I see
tanning herself in the sunlight,
as I sit with my poetry....

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A pool is perfect,
Splashing,
Tanning,
Writing,
Reading,
Baking in the sun,
Floating,
Drifting away,
Daydreaming,
Until you realize.
Your in a place far away,
Although the pool
Can be horrid
Breakups,
Shouts,
Fighting,
But most of all,
It’s usually calm and happy
Music blasting,
Children laughing,
Water drifting in the air
And you are relaxed....

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Backyard Betrayal

Mr. and Mrs. McLude
Laid out each day in the nude
A drone hovered by
“I’m cold!” the man cried.
Embarrassed, his wife yelled, “How rude!”
























Date: 02/01/2022
PS syllable count
Submitting to: “A New Bawdy or Humorous Limerick Poetry Contest”
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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In spite of this rising, darkening sun
I will bathe in the rays of the brightest light
And stare straight at the source
To prove that I will not lay down to die
Or lie paralyzed

I will dance beneath the brightness
of a million tanning salons being burned to the ground
And sing songs over the sounds of their collapse
To show that I will not go without resistance...

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Beheld, the warmth that softens my face 
Whilst in the coolness that brisk my nose 
Ere, the queen of day, comforts my space 
Like petals fragrance; a healthy rose 

Freckles; suns beckon - hidden in dark 
Tanning or Redding on pale white skin
Gorgeous this day...shall thy walk the park
I am king...this glorious mornin' 

My presence makes my painting...Perfect!...

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Such a disaster

self-tanning cream
the pride of looking sporty
the mirror pulls face

deep philosophy
the poet is in deep water
saved by çow tide 

one type of success 
when work brings happiness
and not endless doubts 

the loser is a man
who knows he is incompetent 
yet accuses other

the news I read
has been the same for 50 years 
war and filmstars  
...

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Part of mine never knew the same
when the moon was calling your name
Providence and karmic doors
attractions intention force
Conducted theme of heart
to unite the whole from part
Sight of lovers
reflected silhouettes in colors
Synchronic imagination
invisible sphere inhabitation 
Footprints along soft shore
shared ocean sanctuary core
Stardust and fireflies
souls tanning in loving rays...

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A lawnmower whirrs in the distance
My neighbor has gotten ambitious
The sun shines upon my head
As I sit upon my deck
I feel the warm rays soak into my skin
Am I tanning yet?
The bees are busy buzzing 
Stopping only to drink from sweet blossoms
Birds are calling happily
Back and forth across my rising lawn
Should I get ambitious too
And mow my growing grass?
I sigh
Not today . . . 
Not today...

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