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Body Poems | Examples of Body Poetry

Body Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry about the Body. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for body.
Premium Member Like Fire!
Many doors to flow our Energy left to the feelings in life to the core it is to enter another door that opens to some doors shut to some doors forever the clash with the...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, beautiful, body, character,
Form: Free verse



Meat is pleasing
My head was in a daze, I'd been down here for days. All in the name of love, you'd scream, so I let it happen to me. My skin is like fondant, you'd peel it...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, art, body, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member NonViolent Musicians
When he speaks transparently he feels co-passionate as long as s/he appears to vulnerably listen Without Me v We risks of retributive judgment when he aims to restore cultures and climates of peace through win/win reassessment Which may be why music feels easier to sing resonantly when compassionate audiences dance...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, body, fear, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
SILENT AMIDST
TITLE: SILENT AMIDST Can anyone really be SILENT? Amidst the CHAOS of life... That's a disparity; Answered by a voice at a corner in my head While I ponder and wonder Over all life's Experiences, Yes whispered Softly... By another in a...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, body, corruption, deep,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Clean slate
A clean facial slate no blemishes to be hid a beautiful face...Read the rest...
Categories: body,
Form: Senryu



I live in a world of brutal ice and cold
I live in a world of brutal ice and cold Despite the temperature being five below... these fingered handy limbs awash with profuse sweat dripping palms analogous to a bloody busted gushing water main. Mein kampf analogous to a self made prisoner who...Read the rest...
Categories: body, 7th grade, abuse, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Whats Your Lesson
We leave our country in search of a new life but we end up paying a painful sacrifice, I can live with it, if it has future benefit, but I don’t intend to go through...Read the rest...
Categories: boat, body, care, child,
Form: Narrative
On Seeing a Reflection of Myself in the Mirror:
Am I still blue? Or gray or warm belly red? On the day when the sun set the hottest And loving fish were soaring from riversides To set sail over the violent sky again - Am I still sore of...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, blue, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Earthly beliefs
Following of earthly believes leads to the corruption of the mind, body and spirit...Read the rest...
Categories: body,
Form: Monoku
The touch of another
They said it was me She obviously asked for it Admit you lied they said Dread filled me from the inside Tried as I might Despite my efforts Fluorescent Light fades to black Sank right back to that moment...Read the rest...
Categories: body, child, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Venus
Your darted arrow of Venus impales Our demise persists through our veins The echo in my heart is hopeless What is love when death skims the surface?...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, body, cry, dark,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member One out of five
He was 6 foot 3. I was 5 foot 5. My only thoughts at that moment were staying alive.. Caught in the tenacles of his grip, helpless as I witnessed my top rip.. My bra lifted up as mammoth...Read the rest...
Categories: body, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member LIFTING PASTOR
Pastor with spiritual might Doesn’t take God’s word light Hardcore weights support from a gym Wants to keep in shape Not looking like an Ape Preaching conditional to fulfill Holy Spirit power at will Spiritual Temple That simple Determined and encouraged Feeding his nourishment Soul The...Read the rest...
Categories: bible, blessing, body, care,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shape Shifting Soul
You might say that I'm just an atom, But the universe, I extoll. I view everything in creation As one big shape shifting soul. Even individual beings' bodies Are really something more. Microbial cells in flesh and bones Outnumber human cells galore.   A body's...Read the rest...
Categories: body, death, history, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Solitude In The Sea
My heart yearns for something that is bigger than me and my spirit keeps searching for it, it is not buried in the sand by the sea but it is somewhere beyond hills waiting...Read the rest...
Categories: body, absence, animal, beach, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

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