Under My Skin Poems - Poems about Under My Skin

...I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which - James A Owens Take the fog It feels it knows you You walk headlong into it Intermingle, but non the wiser Despite the dampness on your skin ......Read the rest...

...What is a black man supposed to be? How is a black man supposed to act? When is a black man supposed to talk? Why can’t I find the answers? Why are you trying to tell me What a black man suppo......Read the rest...

...His mean bulging eyes stare at me from behind the screen, and from the look on his face you could see that he has been meddling with my midnight dreams, for twelve long hours he penetrates the screen......Read the rest...

...Falling away into the deep end Following you just for the mere mend Honestly, I die everyday in your arms Wish you could see you do me no harm I need your inner glow to help me out here I need......Read the rest...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...