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Under The Skin Poems - Poems about Under The Skin

Under The Skin Poems - Examples of all types of poems about under the skin to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for under the skin.
Premium Member Within these Walls
...Faces of death stare against my raptured skin. Silently, they watch me in frigid judgment. I used to run from them in unholy matrimony, Peeling the sins from my teardrops Wishing they......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, abuse, introspection, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rue Saint-Honore
...It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and g......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, fashion, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
arrogation
...arrogation  August night, drowning in my sweat, an ugly word I will not use again A sudden gush of cooling air, the curtains  move like a ghost surprised in the armory of an English castle th......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, abuse, april, art,
Form: Blank verse
Inner light
... Beauty lies not in the face alone, But in the soul, where love and kindness I've chased pretty faces, only to find, That beauty fades, when the heart is left behind. I've been drawn in, by......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, allah, beauty, black love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tsunami
... Tsunami Clinging to a tree, my might is numb, Teeth chattering, soaked in seaweed I succumb to the shores of doom, the tides violent surge Adrift and marooned all owed to a sudden urge After......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, natural disasters, travel,
Form: Rhyme



The Soup is Piping
...The soup boils and spits out at me Reminding me of the past. Steam builds as it circulates around the fans Lurching forward, with a spoon, I taste a small droplet of the sizzling delight Only to......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, caregiving, change, dream, for
Form: Free verse
March of the Shadows
...I hold my breath this night a burning lungful of the green and dying sea that leaps then sinks in the minor key of sorrow’s deep and distant light a lowly note against my chest foam ......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, dark, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
holly day in May
...A Holly Day in May the building is eerily empty today, everybody has gone to the beach, even those in wheelchairs I sit on the verandah in the hope of tanning my scalp looks so white in the bat......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, abuse, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Sweet Bitters
...Burnt tangerines create sweet bitters; Current temperature? I’m coasting; Sunburnt skin eventually heals, weren’t you flabbergasted I’m thriving! Resilience starts within your spirit, persever......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, emotions, feelings, inspirational,
Form: Lento
Premium Member Morning Brings the Sun
...A body cold as stone Organic flesh statue All the warmth is gone Your breath cannot catch you Milky white filmy veil Where once reflected light Lively limbs now they fail No soul seen in your ......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, christian, death, hope,
Form: Didactic
Good and Bad ghosts
...We often hope such creatures don't exist, so we turn our head away from such lectures of religion and experience. ,,Mum, what happens when no one is around? How do people feel? What do they do? ......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Living and Dead in 2024
...Ye old poets, cause my demise. My fingers release no signature. Foolishly, in foolish times, used to instant gratification, I want to leave a comment. Ye old poets, what you do to me; get und......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Diet Ditty
... No longer will l sin Treat my temple like a bin Shoving all and sundry in So l will bear and grin Take it on the chin To be happy in my skin Be healthy within No more biscuits ......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Barred Basis
...Sky's lefts bygone when there's not enough clouds For her every color's soul to change in— A motionless mime with no body shroud For singe of sun, pleasure of moon, on skin; No silver lines to jo......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, angst, introspection, loneliness, longing,
Form: Ottava rima
Le filigrane violet - Marc Chagall
...you can't resist my skin let me fall into my feminity we're all saved there as I morph to delicate sirenesque of the sky you mak......Read the rest...
Categories: under the skin, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

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