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Skeleton Poems - Poems about Skeleton

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In the desolate temple of the soul, flesh weaves over bone a silent epitaph
...In the desolate temple of the soul, flesh weaves over bone a silent epitaph, Spirits lock thought within the ark of thought, and sometimes, a divine spark, And women in furies pour vessels into fra......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



the last viking
...The Last Viking There had been a storm, that uprooted  an old oak that exposed a gave the grave of the last Viking, a rusty  sword beside him its grip was made  fallen stars, he had been a chief......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, adventure, deep,
Form: Blank verse
I Am Made Of Rotton Roots
...I am made of rotten roots flush with dead skeleton leaves when touched, crumble but moss grows on my rib-cage bones and mold covers my heart where there’s moisture so something mus......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, deep, depression, endurance, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden Wedding Anniversary
...Your racing bike is broken with a bad derailleur. I look back at my life and admit it’s a failure. If a daft old hen laying scrambled eggs, so sad, can, Then I will concede that I’m an a......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old Dog
... It was one of the coldest winters, yet the old dog never showed up at the kitchen door like he used to, whimpering to be let in for warmth and food. Where he spent his nights, or how ......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, words,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Daydream Drumbeat
...I was a bed and mattress tester, a dream job like that of a yellow moon. I tested the comfort of beds, pillows, etc., for night is ever coming soon. I studied sleep patterns too, like viv......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, beauty, day, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Library
...In my dreams, I hear whispers and echoes from abandoned books Begging for attention, from their old bookshelves and cozy library nooks Ghostly pages full of dust, some damaged from water leaks and......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, books, dream, fantasy, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sullen Sorrow Sadness
... tears freezing crystal fingertips upon cryptic cemetery cheeks under claustrophobic clothing clouds fresh fangs of finality fires morbid mournful mind hearts rot as the reaper's ro......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, death of a friend,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Paris la nuit
...The Eiffel Tower stabbed at a midnight as blue as an old Muddy Waters track. From a distance, its lace-iron skeleton looked like a slick and oily spider-web crowned with a glittering neon diamond......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, boyfriend, fun, humor, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tattered
...Darkness abounds in my heartfelt sorrow where she left me stripped of pride a battered crippled soul who aimlessly wanders in darker realms of blue I continually drown in tears of anguish ......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member i own a skeleton
...i guess i own a skeleton we are about the same size it has my shape and I have its eyes and when we are together we share the same name and when we are dead we will be one and the same......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, death, devotion, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme
Closet Sickness
...Clothes hang prickly and wild— The kind diamond smell of her Spreads in a blocked out sky's room, Faint earth in bursting skeleton bones. The kind diamond smell of her, A true prism on the wal......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, age, angst, child, introspection,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member for most purposes it is dead
...an old piano child size lays in the garbage heap its body broken its innards hanging out on the frame like the ribs of a skeleton broken into pieces its ivory keys are separated and cover ......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, break up, death, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member no big surprise
...Three chubby short stubby snorting gnomes came into the field. They held a skeleton, a cauldron, and a jack-o-lantern from our yield. Give that Jack back! I challenged the thief, who would not show......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Terror in the Seventh Sea
...The monster carried a copper saber in his left hand, giving me a fright. He was slashing an imaginary foe with a bronze sword in his right. Upon closer inspection I saw this skeleton’s all-knowing ......Read the rest...
Categories: skeleton, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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