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"skin" poems

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Love Sonnet XII crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. / Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. / Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

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Touch meTouch me, / it doesn't matter where / and it doesnt matter how

@a-thomas-hawkins17

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Copper Cough Charm_~a jump-rope chant~_ / Black silk handkerchief, / what ya’ gonna’ hide?

@William-A-Gibson29

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You FadeYou fade... / Like a bruise. / Like the ones your mouth left on my neck and shoulders with its lustful pressure.

@kathryn-dixon39

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Dog's DeathShe must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car. / Too young to know much, she was beginning to learn / To use the newspapers spread on the kitchen floor

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Body of a WomanBody of a woman, white hills, white thighs, / you look like a world, lying in surrender. / My rough peasant's body digs in you

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Let’s Live Suddenly Without Thinkinglet’s live suddenly without thinking / under honest trees, / a stream

E. E. Cummings17

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Finding Myself: Two in OneThere are roots that / delve deep in our bones, / wrapping us like our skin.

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EyesSometimes a miraculous thing happens. / The body ages, / And the skin crinkles like an old plastic bag.

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Do You Know Why Men Cry in the Bathroom? (2013, can u believe it)Why Men Cry in the Bathroom / For so many reasons. / I will tell you the why.

@nat-lipstadt53

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ShatterFeeling your hands / on my skin / is when living my life

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Lord, why did you make me BlackLord, Lord, / Why did You make me Black? / Why did You make me someone

@jada-giavanna-jones79

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FlutterI want to climb inside your body / move around in your skin / grasp and kiss your body

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**** I Miss You!That pure innocent smile, / Your childish face and that side profile, / Your silky hair and that perfect hairstyle,

@piyush-gahlot35

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Writing Suicide Notes In Gel PenClothes have outgrown me many times over, / but this sadness never does. / One size.

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how do you know when (a human is too broken?),***how do you know when / (a human is too broken?)*** / <•>

@poetoftheway48

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run your fingers over the lettersyou don't understand at all do you / not truly / you think

@megan-hundley81

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goreBreak my bones; / cut my throat. / Pull me open,

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Please?Can I come to you as I am, / in secret- / brimming with the need to be held?

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Seven YearsIt took me seven years / to realise / the words in my mind

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The Darkness.Even in the darkest of the night, / I can still remember those lips finding their way towards mine. / We can barely see what's in front of us,

@kingafroninjaa17

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Filthy FingersGlistening with wetness, / fingers fitting in like Tetris. / Cream dripping on the mattress.

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Beauty in DiversityWe were born in different shapes, colors, and size / Not a single embryo was able to decide their DNA or blood type / But that shouldn't make us less humans than the others

@cirque_du_lune16

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About Last Night*The surf provides lullabies / as ocean echoes roll. / Too soon, the sunlight glitters

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Wandering handsSeductive wayward hands / Like silk, soft to the touch / Travel down her lustrous skin

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