My Body of Ink

JJ, your poems are forever etched in my heart
Your words get under my skin without leaving a mark
You've tattooed my soul in places not even God has seen
And taken my muse to heights no lover has been
Keep it up poetryman
Cause keepin' it up is the best art on a man

Thank you for the poetic comment Heather! I enjoyed that immensly, made my night!!!
JJ

My body of art adorns a canvas of sound...

Excellent, poetryman.

Thank you for commenting Ahavati! Appreciated!!!
JJ

JJ what a beautiful write..

yes your poetic voice will live on..

so wonderful..

love Brenda

Thank you Brenda! I hope so, there is nothing else to leave behind. I won't even have a gravestone...
Appreciate the read!
JJ

*brilliant*, as always...

What can I say Lyn, I'm just marvelous, lololol!
Thank you for the very generous comment!
JJ

"My body of art adorns a canvas of sound
And on pages from trees that surrendered their lives
Saving my bark from branding with a permanent mark "

Excellent !!

Thank you for reading and commenting Jemac

"My body of art adorns a canvas of sound"

Sir, this is beautiful, in my mind I can see the letters dance in the air as you stand on stage. Your ink is on pages to yellow with time...I'm sure your art will continue to echo. Beautiful! :)

Thank you for commenting kind mademoiselle!
JJ

far better to have a realiseible legacy - the body rots :-(

original idea, well expressed :-)

True indeed David. With my luck they will bury me with my books and no one will ever read them unless grave robbers dig me up hoping to find something valuable. And if they read my books, they will! Perhaps my poems will inspire them to write poetry and stop robbing graves...
Thanks for commenting!
JJ

...your body of art adorns a canvas that has become 'my' body, because you do leave your signature on my skin. Pen love jj...

Oh my dear Rain, your verse has colored my heart 50 shades of ink...
Pen love indeed!
JJ

Great spirit and title - much enjoyed

Thank you

wow..this is amazing poetryman...great metaphor and title, double entendre in the title. I too have no body ink and the last two lines are masterful..like you took the words right out of my head for the very reason, only reason I write other than I'm compelled to; because it transcends death and becomes immortalized...and with poets usually ONLY then..lol...GREAT WRITE...enjoyed it immensely and thank you for following a newbie here and checking out my scribbles..peace

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Thank you for a pretty amazing comment fb8. The title was a process of it's own. I don't usually write titles before I even begin the poem, but I had a few thoughts and couldn't decide which one to use so I combined them. I liked the idea of having more than one meaning in the same assemblage of words. It all started rolling around in my head because I saw a comp thread about tattoos in the forums that I can't enter and was thinking, I may not have a body with ink, but I certainly have a body of ink. It reminded me of a picture one of the other poets here uses on their profile of poetry written all over her body. It's a thought provoking pic in many way. Our body of work is a body of art is a body of ink...  
So when I leave my body behind, my ink will not require opening my coffin to read me, they can open my books to see me...  
After I am dead, each time my poems ate read, I am resurrected...  
JJ

YW...just shows inspiration comes from everywhere too..like you said about the forum and I agree, the more multiple meanings usually the cooler the writing; like the group Tool. That's why they never put their lyrics in their albums...well it's been ten years since they made one damnit..lol..but when they did..to force the listener to look them up and then really think about all the possibilities..come up with their own interpretation..and as to resurrection, art seems to have a standing outside space and time quality to it, immortal...put it on my reading list JJ...will be reading more in time for sure..peace

M

Loved this… great authenticity…