Tattooing Poems

The Shepherd

...The staff of my Father enjoining the past
futurity’s herding a bleating morass 
The bloodline of orphans forever is linked 
tattooing the flock with invisible ink
The first time the last time whe...

Embers in the After Glow

...
In the ashes of silence spent,
cinders glow, tattooing the scene.
Even when I look away
the after-glow is still there,
with scars of burns that won't heal.
The after-glow sears into the days a...

Emotional Shrapnel

...Lurid looks have been thrown at me
Deadly daggers sent to pierce my heart
Why do some insist on acting beastly 
waging war in attempts to tear me apart?
How long can I go on pretending I'm not in...

The Scarlet Cleaver

...The butcher
in a trance
this death
then many more
The cleaver
paused in motion
destruction 
to the fore

The blood
is pooling downward
in images
besmeared 
Its stain
a violent crimson
...

normally but not this time

...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...

Silvery Souls Soar

...Their spirits sift through the ages
Soaring swiftly in song
Kings queens prophets poets
Martyr and messiah
Tattooing tongues teaching teal truths

For ages they are anxiously awaiting 
YOU 
T...

Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING

...Legacy accompanied with inadequacy DESPAIR RING
uninvited GUESTS linkedin as the themes of mein kampf.

Despite countless factorial permutations
& combinations, this cyber surfer
avails left and...

Hieroglyphic Flare

...Tattooing scars gives them flare,
stylish make up is what others see;
Sometimes disguised completely 
proper angles let old marks shimmer;

Stylish make up is what others see,
perfection glitte...

Sacred Gratitude

...Sacred Gratitude 
Rockin and Rollin inside my soul
Beckoning musical notes float within me
My heart surrenders and opens
Expanding

When the world outside dances in tension
Feeling bleak and u...

The Appointment

...He has an appointment,
In the Big Smoke,The Great Wen
and if successful I will of course provide indubitable support, keep in touch, on occasion visit.
He reveals "It's with an artist."
"Wow, any...

Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time

...Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time

This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging

teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teachi...

Mine Unending Nightmare With Crippling Generalized Anxiety

...Triggered to skyhigh elevated state
when I received communiqué
courtesy management warden
christened and otherwise
known as Jackie Geiger
dated March 9, 2022.

She averred fruit fly infestatio...

Warm Rhyme

...Set in winter white, ice, snow, and cold
   sunrises with brilliant light clear and bold
   in pale gray-blue skies of old,
a cloudless stretch of shaded pales
   shadow cast in black sails
   w...

Typing Words On My Old Royal Typewriter Letters- Words and Poetry

...Ole to yon poet writer of words
Yet engaging tarring rhythmically graphics
As all four corners images edging
I have dreamed of these those sketches
I heard an endearing, developing ed...

Abyssal Peace

...Beneath the endless waves lays a body
Piscine and bow-legged; felt from miles away
Next to it, I sit
Lungs half-full, dappled sunlight caressing me

An abyssal peace shared with none
A third di...

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