#tattoo poems on Hello Poetry

alaya Jan 2015

on the last day of the year she told me she fell in love with me.
today i told her she feels like my forever,
and that normally I am more than fine on my own,
but I freak out when I don't see her face or hear her on the phone.
she said she wants a tattoo of a quote or something aesthetically pleasing,
like a line , she says
my math teacher taught me that lines go on for forever and I want to
breathe those words on the outlines of her skin.
I call her "my wife", and that makes my soul smile.
the children of God wandered in the desert for forty years.
you are holding a reservoir of your true being, and i am dying of thirst.
I can stare at myself in the mirror,
and look The Devil in his eye,
but looking at you is like keeping my eyes open in a sandstorm.
I want to be your Promised Land.
you have appeared behind my closed eyelids for the past few nights.
the first day I woke up and drenched myself in happiness,
the second day I dried myself off in reality.

#new #tattoo #year

Swathi eruvaram Dec 2014

Canvas

I am getting inked
This is my first
It will be with me as I go through years

The needles punch into my skin, adding detail
Careful, for it mustn't smear
This is not just ink
It is my love for you
This is not just a word
A meaning for me

I go back to the moment we first met
The trance I was in, I am in it again
Your eyes
Your touch
Your everything
Let them tattoo into me forever

I will think about you until my heart beats
I will talk about you until my voice lasts
I will write about you until my bones crack

You are my everything

Bhakth (my son)

That is my tattoo

#love #first #son #tattoo #name #canvas #print

Erica Dec 2014

beautiful scar

i will tattoo
your name
in my heart
like a
beautiful
permanent
scar

#love #heart #beautiful #tattoo #forever #name #scar #permanent

Hannah Jade Dec 2014

Untitled

Have you ever felt a needle pierce your skin?
The feeling pure, lusting, powerful.
The stinging rake as ink is placed deep beneath the surface.
The numbing burn as a metal sliver finds its new home.
The vein melting hell as you slip slowly into overdose.

#abuse #drug #body #tattoo #modification

nat Dec 2014

stick & poke

if only it were as easy
stick a needle
coated in positive thoughts
and have them stay
as permanent in the body
as the ink in a homemade tattoo

#self #tattoo #positive #esteem

Aniston Dec 2014

Tattoos

Putting ink and needle
to my skin made me
realize the impermanence
of life. How flesh is a
life time but a life time
is just that,
only some number of years.
They say that tattoos are forever,
but cells flake off, organs decay,
and brains forget
the most important,
beautiful things.
I’m learning that even the
most profound of scars and
aches and pains
are all impermanent.
Because skin is just skin,
and I am just human,
and pain is not permanent.

#sad #depression #life #pain #sadness #death #depressed #tattoos #tattoo

ZL Dec 2014

pillow

I have a blue rose tattoo on my breast
one day, I hope your head lay here on my chest
it will give me joy, it will give you rest.

when you are weary and on the run
it will be there for you night and day
like the moon or the sun.

it will be there to wipe the tears
to comfort you over your deepest fears
it will be here sweetheart, wherever you go...

My heart, our love, this ink, your head, this pillow.

#love #tattoo

willow martz Nov 2014

orion.

the skin on my wrists tingle from the shadow of your fingertips tracing. you follow the curves and indentions of flesh, hesitantly running the pad of your thumb across the stars inked onto my skin, until you finally look up to met my eyes.
i see so many galaxies spinning, stories of untold hurt, pain, redemption, change. i begin to wonder if you can read my soul like i can yours.
my mind drifts to the idea of orion, sitting in the sky, watching over you at night, knowing you are safe. i exhale -

you smile.

#love #trust #poetry #honesty #stars #change #souls #tattoo #reading #orion

Olivia McCann Nov 2014

Ink

Ink pierced skin,
Illuminating
Image in
Thick black lines.
Skin bled
Shyly,
Adding red pigment
To all the haphazard
Mistakes,
Gun shook,
Skipping,
Jumping,
******* up,
As he downed the liquor,
And smiled,
Admiring his work
Through proud
Drunk eyes.

#sad #drunk #tattoo #mistakes #******* #*****

Maria Dash Nov 2014

♡ Tattooed heart ♡

Dark cold December , we started well , I've been loving someone , but I've never seen his face.

Every time he says he loves me , I feel loneliness . I'd like to pretend he holds me , but it has never been that way.

I've been loving a stranger , something hard to explain , only he knows our story , "sadly romantic" we'd say , I'm in love with a tattooed heart , 16 marks he'll regret , I've been loving a tattooed heart , a heart I'll never forget .

Empty and lonely , I've been for so long . I wish I could touch you , I'd trade my soul , if only you knew , how much I loved you , you'd tattooed my name instead of a phrase.

I've been loving a stranger , something hard to explain , only he knows our story , "sadly romantic" we'd say , I'm in love with a tattooed heart , 16 marks he'll regret , I've been loving a tattooed heart , a heart I'll never forget .

Here comes the end , let's pretend , we lived fully in love , We never cared what they say , we were fully in love , fully .in .love.

#sad #lonely #regret #heart #girl #heartbroken #apart #tattoo #distance #tattooed