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Stripped Down Poems - Poems about Stripped Down

The Morning After
...The floodwaters shimmer with opalescence in the morning sun The torrential rain finally comes to a halt In the stillness of it all floats the body of the banker’s son Six feet above-ground, his ......

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Categories: stripped down, birth, earth, environment, natural
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marcel Duchamp - Stripped Down Cigarette Tobacco draft
... it's how we cast shadows our scattered pieces that stick in your throat or mellow you out on inhalation but tell me, how gently will you hold me - now I'm laid bare? I don't know anymore......

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Categories: stripped down, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Is your soul waking?
...Is your soul waking? (A lone voice whispers) Every day, do people look for a life-changing truth but has it become commercial A new rehearsal by an old hidden hand For that truth, The ......

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Categories: stripped down, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My secrets cry out in the silence of the night
...My secrets cry out in the silence of the night, I have no need for a tongue to voice them, My heart is an open temple, My doors, wide portals. An epic of deep gazes, My love, without mask or fac......

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Categories: stripped down, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stripped Down
... "Stripped Down" Stripped down the external shed, snakes aren’t what you think stripped down the external shed, skins hung on a beam overhead, hanging souls and their fangs ......

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Categories: stripped down, light, mirror, muse,
Form: Narrative



A Bizarre Naked Dance
...In Ongata Rongai's club, a memory song weaves, A tale of Newton Karish and daring thieves, Late '90s, New Year's Eve, a lively show, A sold-out crowd, in high spirits, they'd go. Karish, unlike......

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Categories: stripped down, celebration, humorous, new years
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tooth Extraction
...Common American Phrase: Suck it up, Buttercup I shudder and shake with epinephrine as the needle stings inside my cheek, like a bee stings. I’m not a child, I’m a buttercup. The shaking r......

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Categories: stripped down, pain,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Tiktok Songs - Part 2
...By the afternoon I was back-on-my-toes. Almost every night my roommates and I sit around a low table in the common room of our suite, crossed legged, on cushions and do our homework. It’s less cl......

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Categories: stripped down, song, student, teen,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Little Miss Vivi
...Little Miss Vivi Stripped down to her skivvies, Got under a quilt in the cold. And just like our daughter, Won’t wear what we bought her, Or that’s the story, I’m told. At least Vivi’s mamm......

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Categories: stripped down, daughter, granddaughter, nursery rhyme,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Jolly Saint Nick
...It was late Christmas Eve When awakened by a noise I was hoping it was Santa With a hefty bag of toys Peeking from my bedroom Caught a vision really wild Santa covered all in tinsel And gigg......

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Categories: stripped down, baseball, christmas, dance, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
Broken Fences
...My senses are over run You’ve distorted every one Now my emotions sit on fences Unsure how to fend offences How my eyes tend to deceive Peripheral sightings I believe You are the corners of m......

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Categories: stripped down, memory, miss you,
Form: Rhyme
Crossroads
...Once there was a TALL tale of a young "bluesman" who didn't play very well Robert was his name and playing the "Blues" was his game Hazel Hurst, Mississippi is where he is from A legend, one......

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Categories: stripped down, appreciation, baptism, blessing, creation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Ant's Army
...I stand and watch the exodus of ants Through sig sag tracks, they wind their way They march like disciplined soldiers Never deterred by hurdles on their way Are they fleeing from an imminent da......

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Categories: stripped down, environment, leadership, march,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Escape Velocity
...Oh, you swamp me with charm - get out of my head. There’s something about you - a warmth - like the comfort of home - that pulls at me. I study your landscape of attractive surfaces like a star c......

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Categories: stripped down, 12th grade, appreciation, change,
Form: Free verse
Warmth
...warmth brings out the best everything stripped down bare and about to bloom I see it in your eyes the ways they smile in the morning sun you walk slowly by swaying with grace in the meado......

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Categories: stripped down, water,
Form: Free verse

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