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Under The Skin Poems - Poems about Under The Skin

H2O
... I'm more watery than women under the skin altho' my body's composed of 6 chemical elements within and all that remains to go with the flow is approx. 60% H2O and the gravity of the s......

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Categories: under the skin, fun, humorous, silly, water,
Form: Rhyme
The peace they display is the fruit of a hundred years of inner wars
...They walk among us, wrapped in a quiet that intrigues, in a silence that soothes. We think they’ve always been this way, born under a merciful star, spared from opposing winds. But this peace, you ha......

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Categories: under the skin, 11th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse



Questionable
... ever really knowing if I'm coming or going meanwhile what am I to do with you as somewhat akin under the skin yet now quite skint but taking a sprint and just for fun making a dumm......

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Categories: under the skin, fun, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She was a soul of morning, with light flowing from her skin like a golden spring
...She was a soul of morning, with light flowing from her skin like a golden spring, Joy blooming in her chest like flowers dancing on fields after rain, She believed in good, believed that love could......

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Categories: under the skin, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The peace they display is a ripe fruit from thousands of battles
...The peace they display is a ripe fruit from thousands of battles, They walk among us, in a silence that intrigues and soothes, We think they have always been this way, under a benevolent star, But......

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Categories: under the skin, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



IN THE DARKNESS OF IMPERIALISM
...I was born in a banana republic, Between the carnivorous chains of Françafrique, In an open-air dumpster, Where tyranny, barbarity, and savagery speak with arrogance. I am perfumed with all the n......

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Categories: under the skin, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Inside-Out
...Body rejects itself, Bone-dry and like a furnace, It burns alive, kill It is sand, dead Dig two graves, Refuse to rot, This isn’t revenge. Hate the body, It’s nothing but problematic. ......

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Categories: under the skin, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Slave Chains of History
...Chains never fall completely. Scars embed themselves like burns under the skin, And even though the skin is a body, it cannot hide the shadow of the irons. History screams, but its lips are sealed......

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Categories: under the skin, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hey, It's Cafe Jazz
...Snapping fingers, a low hum in the microphone) Hey, It's Café Jazz/ But we ain't just sipping black coffee and snapping our fingers in polite applause/ Talkin' Bop/ first idiom where being white ......

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Categories: under the skin, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Premium Member I will not speak of foreign lands, of the fears of other hidden worlds
...I will not speak of foreign lands, of the fears of other hidden worlds, But I will sing of the red eyes of envy, flames that burn in silence, Of the sharp edges of broken hearts, carving dreams, O......

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Categories: under the skin, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Acid Test
...A little spark. A work of art. She lit the dark and filled my heart. Around I turned to feel the burn. There she lies. I’ll never learn. She huffed and puffed and blew me down. I was amazed at ......

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Categories: under the skin, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At The Madrasa
...At The Madrasa On the floor, we three intertwine, glances that linger, hands that align. Many pages of verse we recite and tread, A hand touches hand, no words are said. Fingers trace the zi......

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Categories: under the skin, desire,
Form: Rhyme
I Can't get no sleep
...I can't get no sleep. It's driving me mad, I'm going insane, Feeling delirious, inside my brain. Swivel-eyed, but it's not my end game, Babbling incoherently, telling fables, lies, Maybe one,......

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Categories: under the skin, anger, crazy, depression, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How was it possible?
...How was it possible? Ah, the mystery floats in the air, like a blue mist, dense and cold, Enveloping the entire planet in a mantle of silence, of unspoken, unresolved questions, In the eleventh hou......

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Categories: under the skin, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The poet does not see reality, but sees beyond its enchanted veil
...The poet does not see reality, but sees beyond its enchanted veil, Through his eyes unfold the mysteries of the world, in mantles of light and shadow, A young wanderer on the paths of imagination, ......

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Categories: under the skin, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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