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Best Ashamed Poems

Below are the all-time best Ashamed poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of ashamed poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member When a Man Cries
No one ever told me that your heart could bleed without a drop that anyone could see. I didn't know your soul could lose weight...

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Categories: ashamed, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Regret
Why I did it, I don’t know
Tornado of regret tortures my heart

On a moonless night, he approached 
Limping toward me as I pumped gas
Why was...

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Categories: ashamed, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Touched By Your Flame
I watched them gather round
The warmth of your flame
Like campers at campfire time
Huddling close to you
Pushing and jostling
For the best place
I saw your warmth
Dancing off...

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Categories: ashamed, fire, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: ashamed, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fated as Couplets
The ignorant ones claim, 
I'm full of petty problems,
a slave to the darkness,
but if only they had seen 
how I've slaughtered 
malicious demonic sea creatures
that...

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Categories: ashamed, feelings, miss you, myth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sucker Punched
I can't recall exactly when
Life swung and hit me on my chin
I"m ashamed to say, it knocked me cold
When I came to, I woke up...

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Categories: ashamed, age, humor, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Eve's Drop, Or Not To Eavesdrop
Forbidden fruit they had eaten
   At the bidding of the snake
New ashamed that they were naked
   They had to cover up,...

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Categories: ashamed, god, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tempest, Painting by Michael Cheval
You pull me from the depths of forevers of thought
elegantly twirled, though evidently caught
shaped by the vortex, virtuoso of pain
fluctuating truths from half flailing to...

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Categories: ashamed, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Benevolence of Forgiveness
On troubled roads of life, when opposing sides collide,
Conflict of emotions clamors, agitating ego and pride,
While empathy warns: let forgiveness be your guide,
As benevolent angels,...

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Categories: ashamed, forgiveness, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Too Late For Tears
Oh, my brother..
I can see storms causing havoc in your eyes.
All you can do is stare,
seeking comfort from a tombstone.

Beautiful marble cannot reach out to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ashamed, absence, angst, death, mum,
Form: Free verse
I Confess, I Am Guilty
My parents said I could not keep the black, stray cat.
They explained our canary would not survive that.

Parents out, a sitter, and my four-year-old mind
Let...

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Categories: ashamed, animal, childhood, confusion,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Stranger
So long ago, or so it now seems,
I lost you and all of our dreams
because you'd changed inside,
a stranger you could no longer hide
In all...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ashamed, emotions, goodbye, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetry Soup Heroes For Contest
To single out special people on soup is such a hard task
So many people have helped me, so it’s a really big ask


I discovered on...

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Categories: ashamed, angel, for her, for
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday's Candle
Don't be ashamed of yesterday..
We took chances in times of disarray..

Built bridges that we can't cross alone..
Through narrow paths to lead us home..

Forks in the...

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Categories: ashamed, life
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fly little Dove
I felt ashamed today
I should have not spoken that way.
My love was annoyed and left.
I was surprised by all the dialogue bereft.
Worse the telephone ceased...

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Categories: ashamed, anger, love,
Form: Rhyme

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