Tattoo Poems

Premium MemberTat

Type of lace
Accentuating fine attire or
Tattoos accessorizing skin
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Categories: tattoo, art, beauty,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberTattoo

Think ink, permanently needled into flesh; tainT
Absolute with no quick absolution; twO
Together forever - will you be happy with your tattoO
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Categories: tattoo, body,
Form: Acrostic


Premium MemberTattoo Deportation Poetry Contest

A tattoo that may have been from youth
Could be of a religious reference too
How horrific it would feel you would be blue
Torn from your life family country rights refused

Some may accuse you of being in a gang
Yet KKK and Proud Boys are the very same
Not any of them are arrested put in chains
Double standards are
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Categories: tattoo, abuse, america, angst, anti
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Butterfly


On her front and back pair of wings are found many a natural tattoo
like inkblots, they form perfect mirror images, that you love to view

Her lifting of wings in a figure-eight pattern, our spirits it does renew
Trying to please the onlookers, she forgets the pains she goes through
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Categories: tattoo, 4th grade, butterfly,
Form: Couplet

Tattoo Deportation- Inked in Chains

The sound of wheels on tarmac
Keeps me focused
Keeps me grounded
Keeps me present

The sound of wheels on tarmac
Takes me farther and farther away
From everything I have ever known
Chained up like a worthless dog

The sound of wheels on tarmac
Reminds me that rebellion
Always comes at a price
You just have to decide if it’s worth the prize

The sound of
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Categories: tattoo, longing, symbolism, war,
Form: Free verse


TATTOO DEPORTATION

TATTOO DEPORTATION

I’d almost forgotten that damned tattoo
A small symbol that years ago, I had got
It was a couple of lads, drunk on vacation
The tattooist did it in red on my shoulder
I’m a bit embarrassed now that I am older
Its meaning, I never heard any explanation
Just that for a day or two, my skin felt hot
It’s
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Categories: tattoo, adventure, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

A Tattoo is Born

Something fell out of my head,
a notion perhaps,
I think I have birthed a tattoo
a tat of a Beef Prime Rib.
I like beef not ham.

A slim lady
had a small butterfly
tattooed onto her thigh
years went by,
she ballooned out,
her flimsy butterfly
now looks more like a Pterodactyl.

My tattoo is now fully formed -
clearly, it's a depiction
of a ham bone!

If
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Categories: tattoo, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberguilty by tattoo

Though opposed by federal court
Trump’s sport-like media report
Features flights at night
With head-shaven blight
And the hog-walked men we deport

What slave asks for anything more
Than a rave in El Salvador?
With expenses paid 
In dirt they’ll get laid
While six million bucks pays our whore
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Categories: tattoo, betrayal, crazy, men, prison,
Form: Limerick

Mr Characteristic Tattoo

Mr Characteristic Tattoo

Mr Characteristic Tattoo is 
the new 
Peeping Tom Slaughterer.
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Categories: tattoo, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberspider tattoo on his forehead

He is seventeen
Wears his hair long, in a ponytail, it does not look clean.
There are piercings in his lip and his ears.
He wears a spider tattoo on his forehead.
His mother is horrified.
His father is having a fit.
Both grandmothers laugh at them.
Loving their grandson no matter how he looks.
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Categories: tattoo, grandmother, grandson,
Form: Free verse

Flowers

When I see a tattoo that's like mine,
I know these flowers were right.

Right now it looks like it should be an illustration on your body telling a story.

If I could tattoo your body with these flowers,
I'd know these flowers were right.

I'd tattoo your thigh up to your chest,
But only on one side.
The other side left
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Categories: tattoo, art, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberwe guessed her tattoo would be a coffin

She was not a unicorn pink castle princess girl
her attitudes leaned more toward blacks and blues
she could find the horribleness in every situation
we understood this, but not her reasoning

we heard she had a tattoo, guessed it was a coffin
or a skull, or burned flesh, something macabre
Her tattoo was gorgeous, monarch butterflies
nothing we expected, a cousin
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Categories: tattoo, woman,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberCaring Arms

caring arms
in close up
the art of tattoo
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Categories: tattoo, art, body, care, caregiving,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberTattoo

If l were ever to get a tattoo
I know exactly what l would get
Small yet with mammoth meaning
One without regret

My husbands favourite number is six
My sons is two
Mine is eight
So this is what l would do….

My tattoo would be as follows:

6 + 2 = 8

That simple equation says “everything “for me
My life, my reason ….my
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Categories: tattoo, family, love,
Form: Rhyme

Fighting Fire with Molotovs

Tight stretched skin, not unlike leather parchment
Adorned with scars and burns and such carvings
Among the colors, red ink's enrichment
Envelops a file cabinet's burnings

Advice from the mental advisory
Suggests that all these thoughts be locked away
In filing in forgotten drawery
To the night is left burdens of the day

Where were they all put, these things once forgot?
Within the
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Categories: tattoo, abuse, depression, fire, introspection,
Form: Sonnet

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