The Nude Poet Steven Skelley

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The Mirror Me is a poem about the me I used to see every time I looked into a mirror. When I looked into the eyes of the mirror me, I saw the real me. The real me saw through the masquerade costume that I put on every day to fit in to society. Now, at almost sixty years old, I am happy that I am the mirror me. I am the real me. I am free.

Hugs,

Steven

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I composed the original Choose Me as a religious / inspirational poem in the late 1980’s. I focused on the desire to fit in and have a place to call home that children feel so intensely.

When I reread my creation in 2020, I saw a different pathway for the end. Through decades of life experiences, I have learned that the only person that I need to have approve of me - is me.

I am now at peace choosing to set boundaries on people and situations that may try to pound my heart into submission to some unhealthy dependence on approval.

And now when I

Need one on which to rely

I feel confident to simply choose me.

Choose Me 2020

By Steven Skelley

In the seventh grade

Everything seems like such a big deal

You’re judged by things

Like a brand of jeans

Or your mom and dad’s wheels

It’s a jigsaw world

Where puzzled boys and girls

Try to fit in

And everybody thinks

Choose me

When it came to fun

All the gifted ones

Got to choose sides

The rest all feared

That they’d not hear

Their name called in time

Being left alone

In a crowd is known

To break a young heart

When every heart says

Choose me

I’ll be so good for you

Choose me

Don’t break this heart in two

I want to be the one you need

Just call out my name

Choose me

On a TV screen

I watched a scene

From an orphanage home

The kids sat there

In a sort of quiet despair

At being left all alone

When I looked in their eyes

I could almost hear their cries

For a place to fit in

As their yearning hearts cried

Choose me

I’ll be so good for you

Choose me

Don’t break this heart in two

I want to be the one you need

Just call out my name

Choose me

As a grown man now

I'm no more like a bough

Blown in the breeze

No more do I bleed

From a painful need

To constantly please

I am now at peace

I've made my mind cease

To want to fit in

More importantly

I now know I must be

Comfortable in my own skin

All the steps that I take

And the choices I make

Erase any childish need

And now whenever I

Need one on which to rely

I feel confident to simply choose me

Copyright Steven Skelley 2020

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I’m A Happy Boy

By Steven Skelley

I'm happy I'm a boy

Silly as it may sound

I have a built-in toy

That I carry all around

I can use it like a fire hose

Or pretend that it is a gun

Point it up, down, right or left

It is never-ending fun

Sometimes it hangs down

And wiggles when I dance

Sometimes it stands up

Like a knight's trusty lance

When I go to bed at night

I hold tight to my toy

And fall asleep thinking

I'm happy I'm a boy

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Thinking Of You

By Steven Skelley

Woke up this morning

Thinking of you

Thinking of you, my love

Thoughts of your smile

And the sweet things you do

Make me want you more

My love

We drifted it seems

In our own separate worlds

Galaxies apart

But no matter how far

Or what came between

Destiny joined our hearts

Laid down this evening

Thinking of you

Thinking of you, my love

Thoughts of your smile

And the sweet things you do

Make me want you more

My love

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Echoes Of You

By Steven Skelley

As the front door opens

I can almost hear

Your voice calling out hello

As the floorboards creak

I can almost hear

Your footsteps in the hall

As your favorite song plays

I can almost hear

You singing along

As I try to live life without you

I can always hear

Echoes of you everywhere

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My Scars

By Steven Skelley

My body bears many a scar

Are they ugly or my life’s Renoir?

Mementos from times near and far

Flickering light from a distant star

A submarine revealed by radar

Stories routine and bizarre

Unique notes from a master’s guitar

Each one a time travel avatar

Carved in my body they are

Forever my life’s memoir

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A Butterfly To Be

By Steven Skelley

I knew as a child

I was born to observe

They saw straight lines

I saw the curve

I knew as a child

I was not the same

They fought for position

I hated that game

I knew as a child

I had to make art

They saw with their eyes

I saw with my heart

I knew as a child

There was more to me

They saw a caterpillar

I saw a butterfly to be

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Welcome to The Nude Poet podcast. I am your host Steven Skelley. I share poetry and limericks to touch your heart or make you laugh.

Now, I am a Naturist which is sort of like a Nudist. You see, I feel most comfortable and at peace and centered when I am nude and natural in nature. I am also a poet.

So - what is poetry? Poetry is a literary work which expresses feelings and ideas through style and rhythm.

Someone once said something like this - poetry feeds the ear just like paintings feed the eye and both feed the soul.

When someone mentions nudism or naturism, someone almost always says, “But, that’s shameful or unnatural.”

No, it is not. A baby isn’t born clothed. Children have no feelings of shame about being nude until someone teaches them shame. If you believe the Hebrew or Christian holy texts, God made the first people to live nude and without shame. How can nudity be unnatural when every creature on this planet lives their entire lives nude and natural? Have you ever seen a lion wearing pants? Or and cow wearing a sports bra? Of course not.

Here’s my poem

A Naturist Knows What To Say

By Steven Skelley

I don’t need to be rude

When faced with a prude

A Naturist knows what to say

Whenever I find them

I just remind them

That I was born this way

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