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Nicole Sep 2018
they serve as reminder,
A tattoo of sorts,
memories hold the needle,
and tear my skin,
Scars are tattoos of bad memories
Good moments are like tattoo removals
Gone and easy to forget
But the bad ones haunt constantly
Like the art that tarnishers my skin
Anonymous Freak Jul 2018
another thing
for people to judge me by,
even though they're just another way
to keep breathing.
But they're visible,
and all things visible are judged.
From series 5/18/18 *Stream of thought
She Writes Jun 2018
Some choose
To tell their stories
She wears hers
On her skin
Baylee Kaye Jun 2018
would he love a girl decorated in tattoos,
even if his skin was pale and clear as snow?
I wonder if he maybe would be repulsed by the idea of art displayed on the curves of my given canvas, that maybe to him it’s a pitfall.
could he look past my painted temple,
perhaps even learn to cherish the pieces I adore?
I hope and pray, that someday, he’ll even love them too.
I love tattoos and wish to have many in the future. This piece is written in concern that if a future partner dislikes tattoos will they dislike me too?
Betuel Apr 2018
Frosty blue eyes
Brighter than the sky
A smile so wide
It makes me feel all right
Freckles on her face
With my fingers id trace
Tatted up like a biker
Maybe thats why i liked her
Octopus on her shoulder
I just wish i could hold her
Also a mermaid, a little ugly she said
I thought it was beautiful it was all in her head
Wooden ship on the other
Mermaid daughter and mother
A light house and a beetle
Shes not afraid of the needle
Jellyfish on her thigh
Mistakes i wish i could rectify
Queen of Hearts on her ring finger
The whole time i was a class 5 clinger
Dont let your dreams be dreams
Tattooed on her chest
Thats why ill let her go
But i wish her the best
Poem about her tattoos
Helen Wendell Apr 2018
There are days when I forget
Misremember
Wander
Lost in a cacophony
Of bruising thoughts and jagged
Tumultuous
Phrases
Rising from my mind like rocks
To break skin and
Snap bone
Words that are leveled at me
By my own lips
Or yours
Words that settled on my heart
Crooked and cruel
Scarring
Lurking there always even
When I know most
Are lies
So I have written new words
On my body
My skin
Bears marks
In permanent pain and ink
Indelible
Phrases
To turn to when I forget
Misremember
My name
The ways in which I am good
Worthy of love
Desired
Courageous and deserving.
Mixed feelings about this one, I've never shared a first draft before but I'm feeling the need to express myself today with an anxiety inducing work trip approaching. Hope y'all like it. EDIT: V.2.0 I don't love the last part, I'll probably keep working on it on and off.
cherry blossom Apr 2018
My body is covered with tattoos

I made them with thoughts, ones I created with memories, ones that are considered permanent but bit by bit I manage to take them off. Ones that changed colors by the season I'm in. My body is covered with tattoos as well as scars. I managed to let go of the ones that wanted to take off, and ones that infected my being. Healing wasn't a pleasant place. I tell myself enough, but I couldnt help myself. ''Maybe this time, this one won't have to go.'' But I seal my scars with another one, and another, and another, and another, until my skin screamed, until my skin felt nothing.


I got bruises for not feeling

I am supposed to be happy. There are many reasons to be. But I guess I can never be satisfied and id still want more, even though I do not entirely know what I want. My heart feels so empty, that I hear the sound of my own heartbeat in the hollowness of its chambers. I grasp for air everytime because I feel my throat closing in. I'd get stomachaches and would want to ***** out everything that I am. Because I hate everything that I am, was, and became. Serenity is played in shows, movies and music, in people at the streets, walking alone but not feeling lonely, in colors, in everything that I can only watch but never touch and never become.


Imagine me having a heartbreak every single day I see you.

You walked past me looking at my eyes but never in too deep. My feelings are buried deep down, where I can't even dig. You are the love I never intend to have and the love I have always wanted. You took me to a whole new reality but left me there. I was screaming your name everytime my heart and body start to shake. You caused me all this pain but you were always innocent. I mistook your glances for longing, I was the one longing.


We take words and make it as romantic as it sounds

We put love in every bit of context or in some cases we force out love to take part of our whole being. That's how we live, survive and die. We write songs about the sky or the moon or the sun and make it seem like they are infatuated with the clouds. We make the wind sound like the humming of a broken hearted lover waiting to be salvaged by the knight. There was always a knight, who comes and saves us. Take us out of the black and white world we created for ourselves. We make this up for our loses. For our victories. For the ones that broke us. For the ones that mold us back. For ourselves.
I'll just leave this here. Thanks
4/12/18
rey Apr 2018
Covering all that you are.
It makes each and every person
We destroy our bodies
Tattoos, piercings, needles.
Why do we destroy the thing
That’s been there since day one?

What do we do?
We destroy it more.
Until we rot in our graves.
Covered in destruction
Of what we’ve always known.

From picking at your fingertips
To slitting our wrists.
Destroying ourselves
For pain and pleasure
But we all end up six feet under anyways,
What is the big deal?

Express yourself.
Get that nose piercing,
Get that tattoo.
Do what you want,
As long as you don’t regret it.
Your flesh, your story.
Eh this was a quickie that I actually put effort in :)
Jaden Mar 2018
She breathed into them,
The sound of it like a prayer-
Etched into your skin
With permanent ink.

What words
Were so important
That you had to remember them
In such a way?
I love to watch people in public places- especially those who look like they have a story. Tattoos are like poems in ink. They're open to interpretation and there are a million things they could mean on any given person.
© KMH 2018
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