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Best Famous Humiliating Poems

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Written by Czeslaw Milosz | Create an image from this poem

At a Certain Age

 We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.
White clouds refused to accept them, and the wind Was too busy visiting sea after sea.
We did not succeed in interesting the animals.
Dogs, disappointed, expected an order, A cat, as always immoral, was falling asleep.
A person seemingly very close Did not care to hear of things long past.
Conversations with friends over vodka or coffee Ought not be prolonged beyond the first sign of boredom.
It would be humiliating to pay by the hour A man with a diploma, just for listening.
Churches.
Perhaps churches.
But to confess there what? That we used to see ourselves as handsome and noble Yet later in our place an ugly toad Half-opens its thick eyelid And one sees clearly: "That's me.
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Written by Jack Spicer | Create an image from this poem

Thing Language

 This ocean, humiliating in its disguises
Tougher than anything.
No one listens to poetry.
The ocean Does not mean to be listened to.
A drop Or crash of water.
It means Nothing.
It Is bread and butter Pepper and salt.
The death That young men hope for.
Aimlessly It pounds the shore.
White and aimless signals.
No One listens to poetry.
Written by John Berryman | Create an image from this poem

Dream Song 121: Grief is fatiguing. He is out of it

 Grief is fatiguing.
He is out of it, the whole humiliating Human round, out of this & that.
He made a-many hearts go pit-a-pat who now need never mind his nostril-hair nor a critical error laid bare.
He endured fifty years.
He was Randall Jarrell and wrote a-many books & he wrote well.
Peace to the bearded corpse.
His last book was his best.
His wives loved him.
He saw in the forest something coming, grim, but did not change his purpose.
Honest & cruel, peace now to his soul.
He never loved his body, being full of dents.
A wrinkled peace to this good man.
Henry is half in love with one of his students and the sad process continues to the whole as it swarmed & began.

Book: Shattered Sighs