This Side Of My Skin
I blame it for the pain
As i try and understand its secrets
As it’s forms and folds wraps itself around me
Its supposed to protect the me from the world
But I cannot make sense of the curved markings painted across it
im supposed to take care of it
keep it smooth
perfect for the picture
but i am
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Categories:
ashamed(p), 11th grade, anxiety, body,
Form: Free verse
Looking Back, I’m Ashamed
Looking back, I’m ashamed of what I was,
A mirror shows the choices I regret.
In shadows of the past, I see my flaws,
Yet wisdom’s light has guided me, I bet.
I wandered lost, each step a trial’s cost,
With every wrong turn, pain would carve its mark.
Yet from the struggle, lessons were embossed,
And in each failure, hope would
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Categories:
ashamed(p), anger, conflict, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse
We Are Not Ashamed of the Gospel
we will never be compunctious
as we dwell in the body of Christ
and it matters not our race or color
nor how we live our lives
we will never be ashamed
of the anointed Gospel Word
for we know the power it has
yet to others it seems absurd
assassinated, crucified
He was hung high on a cross
Jesus the
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Categories:
ashamed(p), confidence, faith, gospel, jesus,
Form: Didactic
WHY AREN'T WE MORE ASHAMED
Looking around our country and the world as I’ve watched hatred and misogyny soar
I have to wonder why more people aren’t ashamed of these feelings anymore?
Then again, I’m too old for you to ban the history I’ve read…
a history that shall and should never be forgotten…
I know our great acts as a people…as well as
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Categories:
ashamed(p), history,
Form: Rhyme
I felt ashamed when I realized that, in fact
I felt ashamed when I realized that, in fact,
Life is a masquerade party, where I stood without a mask,
I wandered with my uncovered face beneath the chandeliers,
Among specters and shadows hiding their secrets under false veneers.
In a vast hall, where echoes were hushed,
I, with my raw sincerity, like a secretive flush,
Watched them waltz, twirling in
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Categories:
ashamed(p), life,
Form: Free verse
Shame
Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
I’ve been ashamed,
Ashamed of my lack of understanding,
My lack of consideration,
My lack of care and concern,
My lack of admiration.
I’ve been ashamed,
Ashamed of the way I acted…
When things didn’t go the way I planned,
When I just couldn’t let go of the past,
When, despite
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Categories:
ashamed(p), character, depression, how i
Form: Free verse
Laughter Minichu
he went to see his bride .
finding a wig on his round, shining bald head, she
loudly cried.
he felt ashamed,
as he was caught red handed, he
proclaimed
inept,
on the spot, he
wept
he went to see his
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Categories:
ashamed(p), 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Ashamed
Her face slowly melted away
In the dawn of new light
I realized I had only used her
To satisfy my lust
She became a victim
My selfishness killed something
Inside her --
Her loveliness --
And I am ashamed of myself.
written February 4, 2022
[inspired by a prompt in
a poetry contest on another site]
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Categories:
ashamed(p), abuse, anti bullying, feelings,
Form: Free verse
So Ashamed-
Frostbite so ashamed yet I see no teeth my flesh hurt I'm in pain
Brain teaser so ashamed I have a headache a massive migraine
Grizzly so ashamed I'm a hairy human male and I haven't shaved
Ghost I'm invisible so ashamed to you and to you you can't see me
Tongue tied so ashamed I can't
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Categories:
ashamed(p), absence, analogy, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Ashamed
Knowing very well won't ask how are you;
Understand how much stressful to be lone;
Believe me, since you left all my joy flown;
Know you're sad, I'm also in hardship too.
Don't want to express what I'm going through
to return home, it's punishment for me;
There's limitation to lead life carefree.
Life soon became bored; just waiting for you.
Thinking
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Categories:
ashamed(p), miss you,
Form: Sonnet
At the Hospital
At the Hospital
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Today as skin was torn
Off the bottom of my foot,
I yelled out and began to cry.
I thought, “How often
Do I need to prove my strength?” and
Then, for the first time in 50 years,
I heard myself
Ask God,”Why? Why?” At which I
Instantly felt ashamed, for it is mine
To accept whatever He allows.
Then,
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Categories:
ashamed(p), christian, emotions, inspiration, love,
Form: Didactic
Not Ashamed
I am not here to please you.
Far apart, broken hearted, from the start.
We no longer share one heart.
In confusion, torn apart, in disillusion.
I do not wish to live in seclusion.
Not ashamed of who I am.
Its better for you to move on without me.
I'm just letting life be.
The truth one day I want to see.
The future
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Categories:
ashamed(p), life,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy Talking Outloud Ashamed Not Proud
As incredulously the second
hand ticks cuckoo tock
And malevolent the noon is high
I amongst the many few
Gaze upon the circumspect
Of the floating traveling
ghosts slowly moon-walking by
Trying best not to reflect
the stained glass mirror
watching back
Drawing their attention to what
has gone before
Safely entrenched i whisper
lie behind 3 locked bolted door
Inbetween elongated gulps of
breaths to ward away
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Categories:
ashamed(p), art,
Form: Free verse
Ashamed of My Scars
What I thought would be a moment of weakness turned into a moment of bravery
When I was 15, my suicide note turned into a poem that saved me
All I could do was use a pen to express the pain in my heart
They are proof that I survived so I'm no longer ashamed of
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Categories:
ashamed(p), depression, growth, heartbroken, moving
Form: Rhyme
Untill She Finds the Strength To Speak Again
A drag of another cigarette the nicotine courses through my veins,
It's not dope but it'll have to do, it's true the effects are not the same,
It distinctively lacks the same power, same danger, the elation of the adrenaline and euphoria,
Instead, I'm left to exhale smoke filled self-pity,
Envy causing my mute mind
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Categories:
ashamed(p), conflict, death, deep, drug,
Form: Free verse
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