Short Tattooing Poems

normally I think tattoos look strange on women’s bodies
this time the tattooing looks like henna, delicate and pretty
I have no critiques, am rather in awe this time actually...

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inklings wrinkles
tinkles in sinklings
conrete form
up yourn
i
am
form
i
am we to
no us without you
he sayd shut
we says up
together
we make muck
dirty words made schmuck
three letters off luck
old time still twinkles
tattooing
inklings wrinkles
?...

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Zimbabwe
 
 
From shimmering oil
of ebony still
 
will come flailing of limbs
will come hacking
 
quick slashing
of hands now untied
 
tattooing no pattern
not even a maze
 
depriving gray walls
of their stone
 
will come spittle
wild churning rivers
 
agush from slack jaws
of blanching gray hounds 

till one day at dawn
will come quiet
 
 
Donal Mahoney...

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Mozambique 
 
 
From shimmering oil
of ebony still
 
will come flailing of limbs
will come hacking
 
quick slashing
of hands now untied
 
tattooing no pattern
not even a maze
 
depriving gray walls
of their stone
 
will come spittle
wild churning rivers
 
agush from slack jaws
of blanching gray hounds 

till one day at dawn
will come quiet
 
 
Donal Mahoney...

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Love to wrap body of fear 
Fighting to believe reality  of tears
My world of truth numbing of pills 
Heating up my thoughts to grill 

Tattooing of skin to show the world 
The tales of pain mirror of life 
Believe to help to heal my scars
Hidden forever voice so far 

Puzzle lost piece no end to win
Stairs to climb the time of sin 
Stutter to find silence of scream 
Visions in grief was never a dream...

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I never flinched with I felt
the needle sink
into my skin.
Love is for masochists
and I was tattooing an image
of Forever in my mind.
Even when the tears stained
like blood
on my bed sheets and pillowcases,
I pushed through the pain.

And now silence somehow fills
the spaces where
“I love you”s danced much too freely
and for far too long.
These thoughts of us
are nowhere close to killing me yet;
they chain my limbs,
only binding me to
you
more than ever....

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splitting atoms

head cracking chasm

hold your mentality for ransom

things done at random

like writing about dragon tattoos
done by a tattooing dragon

mad passion rad pen 
creative imagination

raw skills killing rhymes so gruesome

he spoke with words
that were truly wholesome

better yet awesome
I might say that often

but writing just helps me feel
a little less lonesome

coloring out the dotted lines of poetry
like a child with a wild crayon...

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