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Tatoos Poems - Poems about Tatoos

Tatoos and All

...Still a man you know
Still got the blood flowing inside of me
Still got my act together
Still believe in the art on my body 
So long as you don’t profile me

I am your brother
I am your son
I...
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Categories: tatoos, black african american, friend,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberScottish Lore

...Haggis hype
Bagpipes bleating like unshorn sheep
Tartan theatrical - military tatoos
Scotland cloning Dolly the Sheep
National pride - Robbie Burns, poet, bard of Auld Lang Syne
Highlands of anc...
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Categories: tatoos, fun, giggle, travel, tribute,
Form: Free verse



How Love of Jesus Cures Racism

...I
Fix your eyes upon Jesus - for joy
His Love can cure everything doctors can't
evils done to you, loves taken from you-
No medication, pill, sexual addiction/experimenta...
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Categories: tatoos, abuse, addiction, faith, hate,
Form: Didactic

Choices

...It tore my heart apart a time or two
Chance after chance left me to lose
It never did get any better promises to a fool
But I chose to believe bruises were tatoos
Significance in sorry led me bac...
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Categories: tatoos, betrayal, divorce, feelings, grief,
Form: Monorhyme

Blind Date

...Blind Date

I went on a blind date, to support my best mate
Who assured me my girl would be awesome,
But the girl he admired it later transpired,
Said she'd only go out in a fours...
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Categories: tatoos, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse



My Tatoos

...Drops 
Falling
Drops leaving stains
Drops
Falling
Am I the stain? Do I harbour the stains?

Drops falling from above 
They seem to come in unison 
Why do I feel?
Why do I feel not?
The sta...
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Categories: tatoos, future, history, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGranny's Tattoos

...Having one's person embellished with tattoos is all the rage today.
Used to be that only carousing tars got tattooed in old Mandalay!
They might have an 'anchor' or 'Mother' branded upon their ches...
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Categories: tatoos, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOur Islands

...we see the sun almost everyday
when it's not hiding behind 
a thick haze
we live near tall buildings 
that hide the moon
and the lights of the city
makes the sky a dark gloom
what chance have i to ma...
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Categories: tatoos, childhood, beauty, beauty, sun,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Retired Romance : Repost

......Now I ain't without notoriety,
Fact is.. I'm an old stalker with a walker.
She was big in the Purple Hat Society
and broke her hip,...while playing soccer.

When I met her, she was on the men...
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Categories: tatoos, loveold, old,
Form: Light Verse

Bitter Goodbyes

...Make it all your play thing darlin'
this world you trapse through bemused
amused? smiling wicked walking by
those lonely hearts abused
Each and every sunset you awaken to
leaves the sun regretti...
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Categories: tatoos, lost lovelove, me,
Form: Free verse

Retired Romance 1st of Sequence- " Ike " and Jane "

......Now I ain't without notoriety,
Fact is.. I'm an old stalker with a walker.
She was big in the Purple Hat Society
and broke her hip,...while playing soccer.

When I met her, she was on the men...
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Categories: tatoos, caregiving, family, friendship, funny,
Form: Light Verse

At the Rubber Ball

...An abundance of zips, leather and whips,
Full length tatoos and piercings through lips,
Above and below, some off, some on show,
The next time the ball's on you really should go.
How delightfully...
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Categories: tatoos, funny, happiness, people
Form: Couplet

Blonde Hair, Blue Eyed Little Boy

...There he lies sleeping,
what used to be my blonde hair, 
blue eyed little boy,
who is now no longer mine.
He is his own person, 
a man in age, but not in actions.

His arms are covered in what...
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Categories: tatoos, depression, familygod, courage, god,
Form: I do not know?

Reason For Clarity

...We have a collective memory still
Encoded in the body's text
Beyond the bland spate of tatoos
And meaningless calligraphy of the skin
We in ourselves carry that history
Inscribed in cloth and so...
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Categories: tatoos, political
Form: Free verse

Design of Death

...You said you were grief, 
the marbled tears will not flow. 
Was it not much softer 
to accept the life
as a design of death? 
You needed the continuity of the sorrow. 
Why were you seeking the ...
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Categories: tatoos, childhood, computer-internet, dedication, devotion,
Form: ABC

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