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Best Dishonour Poems

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Premium Member Honour and Dishonour
Honour
               Bravery Gallantry
    Venerating Glorifying Respecting
  ...

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Categories: dishonour, war,
Form: Diamante



Premium Member Easter
They were forgiven 
for what they did not know they did
Yet unlike those men 
I am aware He bled
My inner being convicted 
by the things...

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Categories: dishonour, baptism, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Maverick
“Maverick”




Mavericks are made
in the silence 
spent 
where
freedom 
is kept locked tight
in solitary confinement
moments melting 
down visceral pain 
through love 
and 
loveless madness 
fierce swords are...

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Categories: dishonour, appreciation, courage, freedom, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night of Memories
Asleep in my cabin as we crossed the ocean
Woke up with a start to a sound like big thunder
All around me now was just noisy...

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Categories: dishonour, death, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
The Olympic Medal
The Olympic Medal

To be given a gold medal
You have to win the gold medal
To take drugs and cheat
Is winning without merit
To dishonour the olympics
Is to...

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Categories: dishonour, sports, drug,
Form: Free verse



Illicit Love
Time together is the most precious time of all,
fleetng moments to be grasped,
secret, only seen by those who happen by
oblivious to the circumstances of what...

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Categories: dishonour, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Mother of the Age
Stately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly...

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Categories: dishonour, anger, beautiful, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Epic
Leonidas, King
From Heracles immortal line sprang Kings of Agiad
The blood of Gods and heroes in mortal flesh thus clad
And such was Leonidas, half brother to the...

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Categories: dishonour, history, inspirational
Form: Epic
India
I watched a documentary on India
where a fourteen year old girl
had acid thrown over her face and body
because she didn't want to talk to a...

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Categories: dishonour, abuse, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Within the Night
I bow to the word 
a servant of the honest truth 
secrecy is held in the eyes of the beholder 
not one single soul can...

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Categories: dishonour, christian, faith, god, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !

Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
	Anyone can ‘make it’  
Never...

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© Mel Gill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dishonour, conflict, corruption, leadership, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cancer of Africa
Our Shame, 

"PRESIDENT" & "LEADERS" 

Full grown men,
old,
devoid of vision,
Lacking in wisdom, 
wicked weaklings 
protected by paltry paid gun men 
great grandfathers, 
unwilling to train...

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Categories: dishonour, cancer, corruption, cry, evil,
Form: Free verse
The Bruising of the Tender Parts
And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater...

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© Peter Hall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dishonour, abuse,
Form: Pastoral
The Great Illusionist
The Great Illusionist
You tried to defeat the beast 
But failed to bring them your truth and virtue 
The people’s hearts showed no mercy
The master servant...

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© Paul K K  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dishonour, visionary, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plaidoirie For a 'Prince' of Jaffna - Part Two
Part Two

A Prince may not bring dishonour to his kingdom
   In times of strive for the sake of Christendom;
If he seeks spurious honours...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dishonour, history, people, people,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs