British pop singer Leona Lewis has opened up about her new tattoos and their meanings.

Lewis, 24, revealed in an interview with Grazia magazine that her first tattoo was an elegant bracelet on her wrist in Arabic, and is a personal message about love.

And a recent one is a poem about horses that she had written herself.

“I got another one that goes halfway down my back recently,” the Mirror quoted her as saying.

“It’’s a poem – about horses. The last bit is a quote but I made up the rest. Their beauty captures every eye/ A gift from God for all mankind/ They lend us wings so we may fly/ To ride a horse is to ride the sky,” she stated.