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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 Time will Be No More!
I call the law! Am dialing it now! Hello! Spirit friend speak time to what time has been even to my enemies this be soul time to everything anything everywhere on some things time...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, bible, birth, body,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Hidden Broken Leg
First Part: All I see are my toes! A constant burning and stinging sensation under this weighted plaster cast has got me bedridden. The cast is made out of plaster and is white in color that...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, body, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Passive aggressive insubordination against establishmentarian paradigm
Bully me, yours truly never ordained, gifted, or blessed with mien mean characteristic evoking, jump/kickstarting, representing, nor zapping friend or foe courtesy fiery intimidation if anything aura, charisma, dogma, and karma emanating, issuing, and oozing out body electric of one heretofore bookish...Read the rest...
Categories: 12th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our own uniqueness
If everyone lived the same life -we would not be able to be our own unique selves...Read the rest...
Categories: body,
Form: Monoku
No Duh
I feel it, can't hold my cigarette because my hand is shaking My nerves are acting up but my feet are still and planting Yeah I'm tense, I might faint but I'm not going to be failing Yes,...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, body, conflict, endurance,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Cleansed
My heart becomes cleansed my body is the temple purity throughout...Read the rest...
Categories: body,
Form: Senryu
Consuming Fire
Licking my wounds. Recovering from the pain. Is it supposed to feel this way? Empty, cold, and dejected. Ashamed of not enjoying it. Radiating heat filling me up from my pelvic floor. Somehow, I am wanting more. More of the pain without it there’s no...Read the rest...
Categories: addiction, body, dark, drug,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Death Is Beautiful
Our bodies are designed for birth and death; our brains are subconsciously in control. At birth, we instinctively take a breath, without being told; we're born to our role. Our bodies release endorphins at birth to ease our passage, dulling...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, beautiful, body,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lover
Lover, you ignite fire in my body, Transcend life within life, creating tremors in my soul. And as I kiss your honey lips and hold you tight, you make everything so right. In euphoric ecstasy, in the presence of abiding...Read the rest...
Categories: body, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member gray
the mirror don't lie long strands sway as I brush them tinsel gray shines bright...Read the rest...
Categories: body,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A strand of hair
Once bouyant blondeness now turned like silver tinsel glistening in light...Read the rest...
Categories: body,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Fingertips
Our unusual and unique identifying marks spiraled on our fingertips...Read the rest...
Categories: body,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member LOVE RECALL TRUE STORY
A woman journeyed to the island of Jamaica in the West Indies The island of be happy and don’t worry First thing the woman did was laid on the beach Soaked up some sun There were many people among The...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, betrayal, body, death,
Form: Rhyme
Adiposity
The opposite of adipose, Is very, very thin, And if one could transpose, I would suppose, A large excess of skin....Read the rest...
Categories: body, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
It is a gift I have been given you
It is a gift I have been given you - Though us two, both shadowed by the lamp light Are split sideways and depressed by life. Have you been fed up from not getting love? How each, we reach...Read the rest...
Categories: body, death, deep, friend,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Body Poems

Definition | What is Body in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs