Body Poems | Examples of Body Poetry

If everyone lived the same life -we would not be able to be our own unique selves...Read the rest...

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...

My heart becomes cleansed my body is the temple purity throughout...Read the rest...

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...

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...

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...

the mirror don't lie long strands sway as I brush them tinsel gray shines bright...Read the rest...

Once bouyant blondeness now turned like silver tinsel glistening in light...Read the rest...

Our unusual and unique identifying marks spiraled on our fingertips...Read the rest...

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...

The opposite of adipose, Is very, very thin, And if one could transpose, I would suppose, A large excess of skin....Read the rest...

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...

I’ve known the streets: Places where the night lingers and the echoes of passing cars feel distant. My feet have grown accustomed to the dim-lit alleys. I walked past shuttered windows when the city slept, listening ...Read the rest...

My arms are moist, uncomfortably. Standing in the humidity of a tiny bathroom after an overdue shower. Heat hovers disgustingly around my squeegeed sack; a pink puss of skin. I thank the mirror for being useless. Covered like...Read the rest...

Cosmic Embrace As we ventured far beyond the reaches of Earth, we found ourselves immersed in a realm of galaxies and nebulas, breathtaking celestial bodies that would astound even the most jaded traveler. We traversed the...Read the rest...